Nutrition in aging and disease: update on biological sciences

A review on nutrition and skin aging

Background: Skin reflects the general health status and is not an exception in the process of aging. Intervention studies indicate that it is possible to delay skin aging and improve skin conditions through diet-based anti-aging strategies. The purpose of the current work was to review recent existing literature regarding the role of nutrition, for and against skin aging processes.Method: This ...

An Update on Ovarian Aging and Ovarian Reserve Tests

Ovaries are the female organs that age more quickly than other tissues such as the uterus, the pituitary gland or pancreas. Different from males, an interesting question is why and how the females lose fertility so rapidly. During the aging process, both the number and quality of the oocytes in the ovaries decrease and reach to a point beyond that no more viable offspring may be produced and th...

Update on facial aging.

Facial aging was once thought to be the result of the relentless downward pull of gravity on skin and underlying fat. In turn, facial fat was believed to be a contiguous sheet of tissue. However, over the past four decades, a number of investigators have examined more closely the causes of facial aging, leading to a better understanding of age-related changes, and have confirmed and further exp...

Nutrition and Food Sciences: Fascinating and Challenging

Update on Collagen Peptide in Sports Nutrition

Athletes, who ingest special nutrients, can play their maximum exercise capacity. In recent years, sports nutrition studies found that collagen peptides with high absorption and utilization have a protein and amino acid nutrition properties and polypeptides effects with biologically active. Not only collagen peptides can maintain nitrogen balance, preserve lean body tissue, increase muscle mass...