Nutraceuticals

Nutraceuticals.

What are nutraceuticals?

Nutraceuticals are products that are derived from food sources which have extra health benefits. The word nutraceutical is a combination of words 'nutrition' and 'pharmaceutical'. It aims to supplement the diet and provide additional nutrients that may be missing from it or are not being consumed in sufficient quantities. Nutraceuticals increase overall level of health, and may even slow down the process of growing old.
Consumption of nutraceuticals does not have any side-effects.

Benefits of nutraceuticals
  • Improve health
  • Delay aging
  • Increases life expectancy
  • Reduced side effects with desirable outcomes
  • Holistic approach
  • They increase the health beneficial effect
  • They have naturally dietary supplement, so do not have unpleasant side effect
  • Antioxidant activity
  • Increases the body's metabolism to get lesser fat deposition despite having more calorie intake
  • Improves peripheral blood circulation
  • Promotes normal growth and development by increasing collagen formation
  • Helps fight ageing
  • Minimize digestive complaints

Nutraceuticals can provide our bodies with more than just nutrition, and are derived from natural sources. They are packed with all the essential nutrients, including protein, vitamins, and minerals". Nutrients provide nourishment essential for the maintenance of life and for growth.

Many PCD pharma franchise companies like Alvizia Healthcare are committed to producing high-quality nutraceuticals that help improve quality of life.

Over the years, nutraceuticals have gained popularity due to their safety and therapeutic effect. They are known to increase our health value and improve our medical condition. They play an integral role in a plethora of biological processes, including antioxidant defenses, cell proliferation, gene expression, and safeguarding of mitochondrial integrity.

Some of the most common ways of classifying nutraceuticals can be based on food sources, mechanism of action, chemical nature etc. The food sources used as nutraceuticals are all natural and can be categorized. A few are given below:-

  • DIETARY FIBERS are an important part of the diet. They help in maintaining normal functioning rate of digestion. The food sources used as Nutraceuticals have dietary fibers in them thus helping us maintain our digestive health.
  • TRACE MINERALS such as selenium and zinc is an essential minerals involved in protecting cell membrane from being destroyed by free radical damage. The trace minerals help in enhancing the immune response. Similarly, ATMOZEX-SG (refer above picture) contains essential minerals
  • ANTIOXIDANTS Vitamin E, vitamin C and Carotenoids are collectively called antioxidant vitamins. Antioxidants are known to have many health benefits. Antioxidants inhibits the oxidation of other molecules thus preventing oxidative reactions which may lead to several degenerative diseases including cardiovascular diseases, cataracts etc. they also help in postponing aging process thus increasing the life expectancy. Carotenoid such as lycopene which gives red color to tomatoes, has gained attention for its role in overall immunity. It is a major component found in the serum which helps in prevention of diseases like various neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore lycopene is one of the components of nutraceuticals
  • Along with vitamins and minerals it also contains NATURAL EXTRACTS which boosts energy and adds to the nutritional value. Our product ATMOZEX-SG, CUTIZEX also contains natural extracts such as grape seed extract, green tea extract, ginseng and lutein. It helps in general body weakness, assist in cardiovascular problems and as a restorative therapy during illness

The packaging materials are made only of substance which is safe and suitable for their intended use. More Indian consumers will benefit who do not get proper nutrition because of busy life style, missing of timely nutritious meals and lack of exposure to sunshine due to which they may become deficient of vitamins and minerals leading to deficiency and life style disease.

It can be concluded that nutraceuticals have been shown to impose crucial roles in immune status and susceptibility to certain disease states. It keeps the diseases at bay and helps us maintain a good healthy diet. With the changing lifestyles of humans there is an overload on antioxidant defense mechanism leading to stress. This results in diseases. Hence, nutraceutical acts as a powerful instrument in maintaining health thereby promoting optimal health, longevity, and quality of life.