Importance of Nutraceuticals in Diet Therapy: A Review

Abstract

Nutraceutics is a new stream of Pharmaceutical science which deals with the usage of natural products in maintaining normal health and in the treatment of numerous diseases. It also includes the prime role of nutrients in human body alongwith the nutrition during an important life cycle of a woman that is pregnancy, and stress and the diet required in certain diseases. Nutraceuticals are the substances which have been used as medicine, not simply as fuel. Any nutraceutical commodity can be described as an beneficial biochemical substance or offers protection against serious illness. Using nutraceuticals can improve health, delay the cycle of aging, resist chronic conditions, boost average lifespan or boost the form or functioning of the body. Nowadays, nutraceuticals have attracted significant attention because of their dietary, environmental and clinical effects.