The last two centuries of industrialization, urbanization and changes in land use converting agricultural and natural areas to artificial surface have led to European plants being considered amongst the most threatened in the world. In some countries, more than two-thirds of the existing habitat types are considered endangered. Human activity is the primary cause of risk for 83% of endangered p...

The nutraceutical has evolved from the recognition of the link between food and health. The major diseases for the prevention and or treatment of which, nutrition have been associated are heart disease, cancer, hypertension and diabetes. Classification of Nutritional: Depending upon various characteristics, nutrition can be classified by several methods. Their major classes can be as under nutr...

The relevance of naturopathy (defined as the practice of medicine for the treatment of human diseases with natural agents) in human cancer is beginning to be appreciated, as documented by renewed interest in nutraceutical research, the natural anticancer agents of dietary origin. Because of their pleiotropic effects and the ability to modulate multiple signaling pathways, which is a good attrib...

Evidence on time-dependent effects of drugs and nutrition is succinctly reviewed in order to illustrate and advocate investigations of the timing of nutriceuticals. Emphasis is placed on the merits of coordinated, individually, inferentially, statistically examined sets of N-of-1 studies.

Many hypertension patients want to learn about ways to reduce reliance on pharmaceuticals, says functional medicine practitioner Mark Houston, who believes it is often possible to reduce or eliminate reliance on drugs using nutrition and nutraceuticals.

Nutraceuticals with anti-neoplastic potential are suitable candidates for extending the range of therapeutic options for several types of cancers. One of these malignancies is oral cancer of the squamous cell carcinoma type, for which current treatment approaches have not succeeded in improving long-term clinical outcome. We recently reviewed the beneficial effects of curcumin for the treatment...

Medicinal mushrooms have been used for centuries as nutraceuticals to improve health and to treat numerous chronic and infectious diseases. One such mushroom is Ganoderma lucidum, commonly known as Lingzhi, a species revered as a medicinal mushroom for treating assorted diseases and prolonging life. The fungus is found in diverse locations, and this may have contributed to confusion regarding t...

'Nutraceuticals' is a wide term including all kinds of food with health or medical effect. Regulations in the world on functional food and nutraceuticals are developed along with the development of new products. This nomenclature is not aligned across legal regulations in different countries. There are several theories trying to interpret the phenomenon of aging and the most interesting theory ...

Abstract Nutraceuticals have recently gained interest owing to their valuable contribution in the treatment of several diseases, with high safety margin and low incidence side effects. However, efficacy is limited by some challenges, namely poor solubility, permeability, and, consequently, bioavailability. Delivery carriers proven that they can overcome almost all aforementioned limitations, le...