Metabolic syndrome represents a clustering of risk factors related to an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Occurrence of both metabolic syndrome and diabetes and their vascular complications share several pathogenetic features including subclinical, low-grade inflammation, altered oxidative/antioxidant status, and persistent platelet activation. Despite the availabili...

background and aims: nutrition has a determinant role in success of professional athletes and dietary supplements can play an important role for supplying the nutritional needs for them in some situations. consumption of dietary supplements (ds) was significantly increased in recent years. based on this fact, assessing the amount, purposes and type of the supplements are all as prior as the aff...

background: through its membrane and intracellular receptors, vitamin d regulates many vital functions in the body including its well known actions on musculoskeletal system. growing body of evidences demonstrate that vitamin d undergoes some of behavioral aspects of neurocognition. the present study was designed to evaluate the effect of food regimens without vitamin d or with a supplement of ...

conclusions oral mg supplementation did not protect the cp induced nephrotoxicity in diabetic rats. results cp administration in normoglycemic rats significantly elevated the serum levels of blood urea nitrogen (bun) and creatinine (cr) (p < 0.05). however, coadministration of cp and mg statistically increased the serum levels of bun and cr in both normoglycemic and diabetic animals when compar...

The primary objective of this paper is to provide an evidence-based update the literature on use bioactive phytochemicals, nutraceuticals, and micronutrients (dietary supplements that health benefits beyond their nutritional value) in management persistent cases Borrelia burgdorferi infection (Lyme disease) two other tick-borne pathogens, Babesia Bartonella species. Recent studies have advanced...

context the aim of this study was to review research articles concerning association between dietary factors and infertility in males and females. evidence acquisition literature review was performed on articles concerning male and female infertility and nutrition using the pubmed, embase, and scientific information databases between january 1978 and july 2014. the bibliographies of included st...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of dietary supplement consumption and other effective factors in athletes in tabriz. 150 male athletes (23±5 years) from different sport fields volunteered to participate in this study. a 17-item questionnaire was used to investigate subjects’ sport field and sport history, reasons to consume dietary supplements, sources of information...

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...