Effects of Perch Essence Supplementation on Improving Exercise Performance and Anti-Fatigue in Mice.

Mon-Chien Lee,Ling-Ni Chen,Yi-Ju Hsu,Yu-Qian Lin,Mu-Tsung Chen,Chi-Chang Huang

doi:10.3390/ijerph19031155

Abstract

Silver perch (Bidyanus bidyanus) has many nutrition and health benefits, being a rich source of macro and micronutrients, phospholipids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and a variety of essential minerals while having a high protein content. In addition to direct consumption, it is often made into a soup as an important nutritional supplement for strengthening the body and delaying fatigue. By extracting the essence, its quality can be controlled, and it is convenient to supplement. This study aimed to evaluate the effect of supplementation with Santé premium silver perch essence (SPSPE) on improving exercise performance and anti-fatigue. Fifty male institute of cancer research (ICR) mice were divided into five groups (n = 10/group): (1) vehicle (vehicle control or water only), (2) isocaloric (0.93 g casein/kg/mice/day), (3) SPSPE-1X (0.99 g/kg/mice/day), (4) SPSPE-2X (1.98 g/kg/mice/day), and (5) SPSPE-5X (4.95 g/kg/mice/day). A sample or an equal volume of liquid was fed orally for four consecutive weeks. Grip strength and swimming exhaustion tests were used as exercise performance assessments. After 10 and 90 min of unloaded swimming, biochemical parameters of fatigue were evaluated. We found that supplementation with SPSPE for four consecutive weeks could significantly improve mice’s grip strength, exercise endurance performance, and glycogen content (p < 0.05), and significantly reduced post-exercise fatigue biochemical parameters, such as lactate, blood ammonia (NH3), blood urea nitrogen (BUN) concentration, and muscle damage index creatine kinase (CK) activity (p < 0.05). In summary, supplementation with SPSPE for 4 weeks could effectively improve exercise performance, reduce sports fatigue, and accelerate fatigue recovery. In addition, it did not cause any physiological or histopathological damage.

Highlights

In the traditional East Asian food culture, pork bones, chicken, fish, Chinese medicinal materials, etc. are often used to make soups as important nutritional supplements for strengthening the body and delaying fatigue
At the end of the study, we performed histological examination of the liver, kidney, muscle, heart, lung, epididymal fat pad (EFP), and brown adipose tissue (BAT) of the mice, and no abnormalities were observed in each muscle, heart, lung, EFP, and BAT of the mice, and no abnormalities were observed in group (Figure 5). These results indicate that Santé premium silver perch essence (SPSPE) has no adverse effects on organs and each group (Figure 5). These results indicate that SPSPE has no adverse effects on organs tissues at the doses tested in this study
This supplement is rich in protein and amino acids, mainly composed of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs), which is an important nutrient for tissue synthesis, energy supply, and health maintenance [22]

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Introduction

In the traditional East Asian food culture, pork bones, chicken, fish, Chinese medicinal materials, etc. are often used to make soups as important nutritional supplements for strengthening the body and delaying fatigue. In the traditional East Asian food culture, pork bones, chicken, fish, Chinese medicinal materials, etc. Are often used to make soups as important nutritional supplements for strengthening the body and delaying fatigue. Fish is a rich source of macro and micronutrients, phospholipids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and a variety of essential minerals while having a high protein content [1]. Fish needs to be eaten as soon as possible to avoid biochemical and microbial decay, which results in toxic substances [2]. Fish protein hydrolysate or fish processed into ready-to-drink meat soup or essence soup are some the most effective methods used to preserve its nutritional value. Fish protein hydrolysate (FPH) mainly contains dipeptides and tripeptides, which are easier to absorb than free amino acids and intact protein [3]. Compared with the same weight of whey protein hydrolysate, it has a higher total antioxidant capacity [4]

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