Pharmaceuticals to nutraceuticals : a shift in disease prevention / Dilip Ghosh, R. B. Smarta
Imprint
Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017
Edition
First edition
Descript
xv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Redefining nutraceutical and functioning foods as part of a journey from pharma to nutra -- Holistic health through nutrition, diet, and nutraceuticals for prevention and treatment -- A paradigm shift from cure to prevention and treatment -- Traditional and modern medicine : filling the gap -- Drug-nutrient interactions : their role in clinical outcomes -- Existing and innovative models of health and disease: elaborating on foods versus drugs -- Market dynamics and evolution in nutraceuticals-- Business perspective -- Science to business viability -- The role of nanoparticles in both nutraceutical and pharmaceutical products -- A regulatory perspective of nutraceuticals and phytomedicines in India -- Vitamin E in health and wellness : what would be the ideal therapeutic dosage? -- Clinical applications of metabolites and metabolomics -- Medical foods : a new domain in the food-drug interphase -- Probiotics : from bench to market -- The combination of foods and drugs: advantages and drawbacks -- The role of food bioactives in disease prevention -- The journey from personalized medicine to personalized nutrition -- Quality controversies in phytopharmaceuticals