"This new book, Preventive and Therapeutic Role of Vitamins as Nutraceuticals, provides informative coverage of recent breakthroughs in vitamins and their ability to prevent diseases and manage health issues. The book describes the effects of vitamins asnutraceuticals in chronic diseases, such as in treating cancer through antitumor and antioxidant activity, for improving the immunity of patients with HIV and AIDS, for the treatment of tuberculosis, for peptic ulcers, etc. Chapters discuss the use of vitamins in the management of infectious diseases, such as viral infections, microbial infections, and specifically for COVID-19. The functional activity of vitamins in brain health and obesity management is also explored for the management, prevention, anddelay of hypertension and related problems, as well as for blood pressure regulation and hypertension. The volume covers each major vitamin with food sources that play a role in neurodegenerative diseases and, in some cases, how they adversely affect human health. The volume also looks at vitamins as nutraceuticals for weight loss and obesity, for blindness and vision issues, for baldness, and for skincare issues. Preventive and Therapeutic Role of Vitamins as Nutraceuticals is an authoritative and wide-ranging guide for professionals, researchers, and students in food technology, nutrition and fitness, and herbal products and phytochemistry. Consumers of vitamins and nutraceuticals will find this book valuable as well"--
This new book provides informative coverage of recent breakthroughs in vitamins and their ability to prevent disease, manage health issues, and treat chronic illness. It describes the beneficial effects of vitamins as nutraceuticals in treating cancer, for improving the immunity of patients with HIV and AIDS, for the treatment of tuberculosis, and for the management of infectious diseases, such as viral infections, microbial infections, and COVID-19. The functional activity of vitamins in brain health and obesity management is also explored for the management, prevention, and delay of hypertension and related problems. The volume also covers vitamins that play a role in neurodegenerative diseases as well as those that can be used for weight loss and obesity, blindness and vision issues, baldness, and skincare issues.
Describes the effects of vitamins as nutraceuticals in chronic diseases, such as in treating cancer through antitumor and antioxidant activity, for improving the immunity of patients with HIV and AIDS, for the treatment of tuberculosis, for peptic ulcers, for infectious diseases (including COVID-19), etc.
PART I: ROLE OF VITAMINS IN CHRONIC DISEASES
1. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals in Cancer
2. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals for Tuberculosis
3. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals for HIV and AIDS
4. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals for Peptic Ulcer PART II: VITAMINS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES 5. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals for Viral Infection
6. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals for Microbial Infections
7. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals for Covid-19 PART III: FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITY OF VITAMINS IN BRAIN HEALTH AND OBESITY MANAGEMENT 8. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals for Hypertension
9. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals for Neurodegerative Disease
10. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals for Weight Loss and Obesity PART IV: NUTRITIONAL FUNCTION OF VITAMINS 11. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals for Blindness
12. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals for Baldness
13. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals for Skin Care
14. Overview and Recent Advances in Vitamins
15. Vitamins as Nutraceuticals for Human Nutrition
Khemchand R. Surana, MSPharm, is Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Shreeshakti Shaikshanik Sanstha Divine College of Pharmacy, India. He has attended national and international conferences and workshops and has published over 35 research articles and book chapters as well as nine books on pharmacy. His areas of interest are computer-aided drug design and synthesis, biological activity, evaluation, and nutraceuticals.
Eknath D. Ahire, MSPharm, is Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics at METs, Institute of Pharmacy, affiliated with Savitribai Phule Pune University, India. He also works for QCS Labs LLP, Mumbai, as Inspector for Nigerian regulatory market pre-shipment inspection. He has more than 30 research papers and book chapters as well as six textbooks to his credit. He has participated and attended several national and international conferences and workshops.
Raj K. Keservani, MPharm, is Associate Professor of Pharmacy at the CSM Group of Institutions, Prayagraj, India. He has more than 12 years of academic experience from various institutes of India in pharmaceutical education. He has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers in the field of pharmaceutical sciences in national and international journals, six patents, over 70 book chapters, three co-authored books, and over 40 edited books.
Rajesh K. Kesharwani, PhD, MTech, is Associate Professor of Computer Application at Nehru Gram Bharati, Prayagraj, India. He has published many journal articles, book chapters, and edited books and has presented many papers at national and international conferences. He has received several awards, including the NASI-Swarna Jayanti Puruskar by the National Academy of Sciences of India. Along with Dr. Keservani, he edits the book series AAP Advances in Nutraceuticals.
Lisainfo e-raamatute kohta