Betaine inhibits fat deposition and improves meat yield and meat quality

Betaine has a certain anti-fat effect. Adding betaine to the diet will reduce the body fat and increase the protein content of growing chickens. Betaine can provide methyl to methylaminoethanol to generate choline. Choline plays an important role in ester metabolism, thereby promoting fatty acid oxidation and phospholipid production, and improving the speed of esters. Betaine promotes the production of phospholipids in the body. Synthesis, on the one hand, reduces the activity of lipase in the liver; The migration of fat in the liver, thereby reducing the content of triglycerides in the liver.

Effects of betaine on neuroendocrine

Betaine can significantly increase the level of growth hormone in the serum of finishing pigs. By increasing the methyl group, betaine contributes to the conversion of aradonine to N-methyl-radonine (NMDA) receptors. Therefore, betaine enhances the endocrine function of the hypothalamus by activating the NMDA receptors in the hypothalamus, thereby promoting the release of hypothalamic hormones. Hypothalamic hormone also acts on the pituitary adenylate cyclase-cAMP-protein kinase system to promote the release of GH, FSH and LH hormones from the pituitary.

Betaine is involved in amino acid and protein metabolism

Betaine is closely related to the metabolism of methionine. On the one hand, betaine reduces the consumption of methionine by providing methyl groups; on the other hand, betaine increases the activity of homocysteine-S-methyltransferase and promotes The conversion of homocysteine ​​has the effect of net increase of methionine. According to research, betaine can significantly increase the crude protein content and RNA/DNA ratio in animal liver and muscle, while the serum uric acid content significantly decreases, which shows that betaine promotes protein synthesis in the body, reduces protein decomposition, and makes tissue The mechanism of increased protein deposition may be that betaine accelerates the process of RNA processing and modification by enhancing the body's methyl metabolism.