Nutrition and Functional Foods in Boosting Digestion, Metabolism and Immune Health. This item is unavailable.Nutrition and Functional Foods in Boosting Digestion, Metabolism and Immune Health

Nutrition and Functional Foods in Boosting Digestion, Metabolism and Immune Health explores the role of appropriate nutrition and digestive enzymes in healthy digestion. The book addresses salient gastrointestinal features involved in healthy digestion pathophysiology, including coverage of the enzyme-microbiome connection and linkage, features of indigestion problems, roles of traditional and conventional ethnic foods, structurally diverse digestive enzymes, drugs, nutraceuticals and novel digestive formulations. In addition, the book addresses technological breakthroughs that have led to recent, novel discoveries and outlines nutritional guidelines and recommendations to achieve healthy digestion.

This book is a useful resource for nutrition researchers, nutritionists, physicians working in the field of digestive health, pharmacists, food experts, health professionals, nurses and general practitioners, public health officials and those teaching or studying related fields.

• Provides coverage of digestion, human physiology and the enzyme-microbiome linkage
• Covers indigestion problems, including gut dysbiosis and its role in chronic disease
• Addresses traditional and conventional ethic foods
• Discusses digestive enzymes, as well as digestive drugs, enzymes, nutraceuticals and novel formulations

Dr. Bagchi is an academic, industry, and clinical-affairs leader in nutraceuticals, functional foods, toxicology, pharmacology, and nutrition science. He holds adjunct faculty appointments at Texas Southern University and Adelphi University, where he contributes to teaching in neurotoxicology and integrative neuroscience, and serves as Director of Innovation and Clinical Affairs at Dr. Herbs LLC. He previously held faculty and senior research leadership roles in pharmaceutical sciences, nutraceuticals, and scientific affairs. Dr. Bagchi has held leadership positions in professional organizations including the International Society of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods, the American College of Nutrition, and the Institute of Food Technologists’ Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods Division. His work includes extensive peer-reviewed publications, edited books, and patents. He serves in advisory, peer-review, and editorial roles for scientific organizations and journals, with contributions spanning functional foods, nutrition, toxicology, oxidative stress, and biomedical research.

Sunny Ohia is a Professor of Pharmacology in the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Texas Southern University. Dr. Ohia has over 38 years of experience in higher education having served as a member of faculty in five universities in Canada and the United States. He holds other academic appointments as adjunct professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha and as an adjunct professor of integrative biology and pharmacology at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston. Dr. Ohia is a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science and a Fellow of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology. He's authored over 250 original papers, book chapters, books, and abstracts and, holds three U.S. and five international Patents for his scientific work.