Nutrient-drug interactions
By: edited by Kelly Anne Meckling.
Contributors: Meckling, Kelly Anne.
Series: Nutrition and disease prevention -- 7.
Publisher: CRC/Taylor & Francis
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781574449150
Subjects: Drug-nutrient interactions.; Food-Drug Interactions.; Herb-Drug Interactions.; Metabolism -- drug effects.; Nutrition Physiology.; Nutrition Therapy.; Interactions médicaments-aliments.
Description: "Nutrient-Drug Interactions focuses on foods, herbals, and their chemical constituents as contributors to human health through control of metabolism, primarily as they relate to chronic disease development and treatment. The book's organization highlights the ailment being treated or prevented and the targets of therapy. Each chapter provides a comprehensive examination of the macronutrient, micronutrient, and phytochemical impact on drug action and includes advice on modification or supplementation in those cases where diet is a factor.

They describe the roles of genetic variation and polymorphism in determining nutrient/drug responses, how they might be "profiled" to identify those likely to demonstrate specific interactions, and who would benefit from adjuvant or complementary therapies." "The book explores how what is consumed affects response, whether on a population or individual level, to the pharmacologic agents that are the mainstay of chronic disease treatment/prevention around the world."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Diabetes, obesity, and metabolic syndrome; title: Hypolipidemic therapy: drugs, diet, and interactive effects; title: Phytochemicals, xenobiotic metabolism, and carcinogenesis; title: Nutrient and phytochemical modulation of cancer treatment; title: Role of nutritional antioxidants in the prevention and treatment of neurodegenerative disorders; title: Nutrients and herbals in the pharmacotherapy of unipolar/major depression; title: Supplements and anethesiology; title: Nutrient-and drug-responsive polymorphic genes as nutrigenomic tools for prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer; title: Nutrigenomics and pharmacogenomics of human cancer: on the road from nutrigenetics and pharmacogenetics.