Top Research Papers on Nutraceuticals

This chapter deals with the exploitation of microbes from marine sources as potential sources for various nutraceuticals and their possibilities for applications in a variety of diseases and as functional food supplement.

This chapter mainly emphasizes the recent role of nutraceuticals in human health and its status in other nations.

Outcome of preclinical and clinical studies evident that WS offers promising therapeutic benefits against diseases such as female specific cancer, polycystic ovary syndrome, leucorrhoea, menopausal syndrome, anxiety, depression, and reproductive and neuroendocrinology dysfunctions.

Hair loss has a multifactorial etiology that includes internal and external triggers, which can cause free radical formation, oxidative stress, and microinflammation at the site of the hair follicles.

Current knowledge on the role of diet modifications, lipid and carbohydrates consumption, vitamin supplementation, and the possible effects of antioxidant and nutraceutical compounds with neuroprotective activity, in the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders are reviewed.

There have been very few or negligible report for the side effects of nutraceuticals, making it as a most popular substance by virtue of its antioxidant activity which enables it to be a potent free radical scavenger in human physiological system.

Nutraceuticals and the claims that these products make have become increasingly popular on a global basis, according to an expert who spoke at MauiDerm 2014.

Recent research findings on garlic, omega-3-fatty acids, soy products, dietary fibres, vitamins, antioxidants, plant sterols, flavonoids, prebiotics and probiotics that have beneficial effects on the heart are summarized in order to update the practising clinician on the benefit of using nutraceuticals for the management of cardiovascular diseases.

TheNutraceuticals with their groups, international and national status, need, safety, merit, existing nutraceutical products, major nutr pharmaceutical companies, therapeutic applications and also the urgent need for R & D in the formulation of nutr Pharmaceuticals are outlined.

The development of well regulated, harmonized and research driven approach can help boost the confidence of consumer in nutraceutical products in the world thereby driving the nutr pharmaceutical market.

BACKGROUND Various nutraceuticals from different sources have various beneficial actions and have been reported for many years. The important findings from the research conducted using various nutraceuticals exhibiting significant physiological and pharmacological activities have been summarized. METHODS An extensive investigation of literature was done using several worldwide electronic scientific databases like PUBMED, SCOPUS, Science Direct, Google Scholar, etc. The entire manuscript is available in the English language that is used for our various compounds of interest. These databases w...

The need for consuming appropriate diets, health issues surrounding failure to adhere to the known healthy eating models, development of new nutraceuticals/functional foods/food supplements with novel health benefits, elucidation mechanisms of action of these products are focused on.

The concept of nutraceutical was stared from the survey in U.K., Germany and France which concluded that diet is rated more highly by consumers than exercise or hereditary factors for achieving good health.

Development of better characterized and research proven products will help enhance consumer confidence in nutraceutical and functional food products in the world.

Plants provide us with not only nutritional value but have been used throughout history for medicinal purposes throughout history and are still used today for these purposes.

The aims of this review article are to provide an overview of the nutricosmetic ingredients that improve health and fitness by acting on the skin, hair, and nails by act on the systemic level that’s aim focus on beauty health and Fitness.

This review has put a question and demand for compliance with established proven eating models, development of new non-traditional nutraceuticals functional foods & food supplements with fresh well-being effects, disclosure means of their functioning in order to define a comprehensive image of the concept.

Today the important role of diet in disease prevention is being increasingly realised in current scientific thinking as well and Nutraceuticals entirely helps in providing the necessary nutrients and are taken or prescribed based on requirements.

The description of these activities, related to the presence of specific classes of secondary metabolites and isolated compounds, may lead to the identification of mycomplexes and mushrooms compounds that may be further studied for their potential application in nutraceutical products.

This review provides a basic, yet essential, understanding for emerging nutraceutical strategies for the prevention and therapeutic treatment of CVD.