Introduction: Today Nano-medicine tries to produce new drugs to reduce the dosage and side effects of their conventional forms. According to the interaction between zinc and opioidergic system activity, this study has investigated the effect of new kind of zinc supplement, nano zinc oxide (nZnO), in compared to its conventional form (cZnO), in presence and absence of opioidergic system activity...

OBJECTIVE Preventive zinc supplementation in the form of tablets or syrup reduces the incidence of diarrhoea and acute lower respiratory tract infections (RTI), but its effect on malaria is inconsistent. When zinc is administered with other micronutrients or foods, its effect is also uncertain. We assessed the effects of different amounts and sources of zinc on the frequency of diarrhoea, malar...

Brewer’s yeast is rich in protein, amino acids, water soluble vitamins (thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, folic acid, vitamin B12 and pyridoxine), which also a source of minerals, chromium (an essential mineral that helps the body maintain normal blood sugar levels), copper, zinc, selenium. The paper proposes processes for processing waste brewer’s can be used food, cosmetic medical industries. com...

This study measured excretion of 11 minerals induced by EDTA chelation therapy in 25 adults (aluminum, cadmium, calcium, chromium, copper, iron, lead, magnesium, manganese, mercury, zinc). We administered 20 EDTA infusions (3 g, with magnesium and ascorbate) 1 to 2 weeks apart and measured 24-hr urinary excretions of minerals before treatment and after treatments 1, 10, and 20. A modest supplem...

Fisher rats from a inbred colony, when fed on a salt-free high-protein diet, developed only a mild arthritis after adjuvant injection. Their spleen cells failed to respond in vitro to concanavalin A (a T-cell mitogen), although they possessed a B-cell function of plaque formation to sheep red blood cells. When a full salt supplement was included in the diet, or magnesium or copper or zinc was i...

Such "therapy" effectively consists of recommending a multivitamin-mineral supplement with somewhat higher-than-daily-value amounts of several of the B vitamins (pyridoxine hydrochloride [B6], cyanocobalamin [B12], and folic acid). Therapy with, for example, 25 mg of B6, 100 μg of B12, and 400 μg of folic acid is simply obtained in a high "potency" (no-iron) multivitamin that can be bought in t...

Riyue Liu, Yue Chen, Rui Zhang, Yaxin Liu, Nianzhi Jiao, Qinglu Zeng Division of Life Science and Environmental Science Programs, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong, China; State Key Laboratory for Marine Environmental Science, Institute of Marine Microbes and Ecospheres, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China; HKUST Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, C...

BACKGROUND Food-based approaches have been advocated as the best strategies to curb hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. The use of low-cost, locally available, nutritious foods in the development of supplementary foods has been recommended. OBJECTIVE To develop low-cost food supplements using different traditionally processed local foods, consisting of cereals, legumes, nuts, fis...