The foundational elements of cells and tissues are water, lipid, protein, mineral, vitamins, carbohydrates. A healthy varied diet, fortified food & nutraceuticals that provide appropriate macro micronutrients required to maintain functioning wear tear the human body. Nutraceuticals (Nutrition + pharmaceuticals) isolated nutrients or dietary supplements medical health benefits, including prevent...

Colostrum is the first milk produced by mammals within a 24 to 72 hour period after parturition.Colostrum contains various proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals that are essential for the diet of a developing mammalian neonate. It also includes bioactive constituents such as immunoglobulin, antimicrobial peptides and growth factors. Colostrum and fractions thereof may be useful f...

Marine plants are known to produce a large number of structurally diverse secondary metabolites. They are found to be economically important in the field of food additives, nutraceutical and drugs. Seagrasses are a paraphyletic group of marine hydrophilus angiosperms, which evolved three to four times from land plants back to the sea. It lives in an estuarine or in the marine environment, and n...

Growing attention is now being given to the possible preventive/alternative ways to avoid illness onset. Changes in lifestyle and food habits are taking over from the conventional pharmaceutical-based approach, especially for chronic pathologies. Nutraceuticals have been proposed as key tools for the prevention and cure of some pathological conditions. This is leading research to develop new fo...

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are ligand-activated nuclear receptors that respond to several exogenous and endogenous ligands by modulating genes related to lipid, glucose, and insulin homeostasis. PPARγ, expressed in adipose tissue and liver, regulates lipid storage and glucose metabolism and is the target of type 2 diabetes drugs, thiazolidinediones (TZDs). Due to high l...

INTRODUCTION Statins are at the forefront of strategies to manage dyslipidemia, although they are not always well tolerated. At 6-7 months after the drug was supplied, discontinuation rates averaged 30%. Alternate agents to statins have been studied. Some nutraceuticals demonstrated an efficacy in reducing cholesterol concentrations. However, there are no data regarding the use of nutraceutical...