Nutraceuticals in Human Health

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: 3T3-L1 preadipocytes; Ac-α-tubulin; Allium sativum; analysis; anthocyanins; anti-adipogenic effects; anti-inflammatory; antimicrobial; antioxidant; antioxidant capacity; apigenin; apoptosis; applications; bioactive compounds; bioactive polysaccharides; Biology, life sciences; biomedical applications; biorefinery; carotenoid; cervical cancer cells; chemometrics; cherry; cholesterol; clinical tests; copper sulfate; Cultural and media studies; Cultural studies; cupric ions; defatted flour; degradation; efficacy; egg quality; emulsifying properties; emulsion stability; energy homeostasis; extraction; fatty acids; fenugreek seed; ferrous ions; flavonoids; formulation; FTIR spectroscopy; fulvic acids; functional beverage; garlic; gene expression; ginger water; grape; grape seeds; growth inhibition; Haugh unit; health; human health; HUVEC; intestinal absorption; iron; JBCC4 Cultural studies: food and society; linseed; luteolin; Mathematics and Science; medicinal food; medicinal foods; mineral; nanoparticles; nanosystems; nutraceuticals; obesity; oxidative status; phenolic compounds; Platycodon grandiflorus; polyphenols; protein concentrate; Prunus serotine; rat; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; regulation; Research and information: general; safety; saponins; Society and culture: general; Society and Social Sciences; soluble protein; spirulina; yolk; yolk color; β-carboline alkaloids
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03936-458-9
• ISBN: 9783039364572; 3039364588; 303936457X; 9783039364589

Nutraceuticals are a challenge for the future of prevention and therapy in healthcare. The possibility to prevent and/or support pharmacological therapy, which is nowadays mainly based on pharmaceuticals, can be a powerful tool to face pathological, chronic, long-term diseases in subjects who do not qualify for a pharmacological therapy. Nutraceuticals are obtained from vegetal or animal origin foods, and prospective research on these products will clarify their role, safety and efficacy by substantiating their role with clinical data. An effort to clarify their mechanism of action will open a door to the next generation of therapeutic agents that do not propose themselves as an alternative to drugs, but, instead, can be helpful to complement a pharmacological therapy, and to prevent the onset of chronical diseases. The market as well as the interest of people in naturally-derived remedies and less synthetic pharmaceuticals is growing, and the attention of the collective public imagination is nowadays more strongly focused on these food-derived products. This Special Issue is dedicated to the role of and perspectives on nutraceuticals in human health, examined from different angles ranging from analytical aspects to clinical trials, and from efficacy studies to beneficial effects on health conditions.