Dietary Supplements and Nutraceuticals in the Management of Endocrine Disorders, Endocrinological Challenges in Aging and Nutraceuticals

Abstract

Annath bavanthi boothani… when the gospels from Vedic literature hails food, the subsistence of all material bodies [1], ancient treatise by Sage Kashyapa emphasized the food factor as medicine itself [2]. Hippocrates’s quote “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” preceded the very concept [3]. The framework of food as medicine gets later highlighted by Stephen de Felice by coining the term NUTRACEUTICAL in 1989 [4]. Nutraceuticals started reverberating the baseline history of food as medicine and nowadays can be seen conjoined with any conventional medical prescription and health concept. The loosened legalities regarding the new trend were the added advantage for the upcoming wave leaving behind the questions of safety. This nutraceutical key to health when thoroughly shuffled might be suiting the antiaging process on a preventive schedule. © 2022 selection and editorial matter, Jayant Nemchand Lokhande, Yashwant Vishnupant Pathak; individual chapters, the contributors CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.