BIOACTIVE PEPTIDES
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The bioactive peptides or proteins are bioactive substances that have the function of modulating some organic processes, acting on the cell receptors that regulate these processes.
For example, the peptides which have an action on the metabolism of lipids, facilitating the mobility of cholesterol. The peptides may act individually or in combination with other peptides. Bioactive peptides originate from the action of a protease on the proteins present in a substance.
Bioactive peptides are divided into 2 main groups: those that have systemic effects and those that have specific effects:
Systemic effects means that are not directly involved, but facilitating the processes involved (for example, bioactive peptides that have an effect ipercolesterolomerico intervene on the process related to removal of cholesterol and favor it, the same applies to iperlipidemico: involved in regulatory processes facilitating the mobility of fat).
Specific effects means that their presence rule a particular job, then the effect is immediate.
Immunomodulators such as bioactive peptides act directly on the immune system and make it more efficient.
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