Full Description
Phytochemicals and Gut Health: Evidence and Opportunities for Gastrointestinal Management highlights specific plant phytochemicals, their bioactive compounds, and the influence they have on the gut-brain axis. By exploring sources, production, mechanisms of action, and clinical applications, the book uncovers how certain bioactives can optimize health and improve gastrointestinal diseases while reducing the side effects and limited efficacy of current medical treatments. The book's authors identify different classes of plant-based phytochemicals such as phenolic metabolites, alkaloids, terpenoids, and glucosinolates while demonstrating a better understanding of the gut-nutraceutical axis that can improve microbiota for GI disorders, and more.
Readers will also gain important perspectives on mechanisms of action and the synergistic effects phytochemicals have on cardiovascular and neurological health.
Contents
1. Introduction to gastrointestinal disorders
2. Limitation of current therapeutic strategies for the gastrointestinal disorders
3. Recent Advances in diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal disorders
4. Diet and nutritional management of gastrointestinal disorders
5. Biochemical characterization, production and medicinal properties of Phytochemicals
6. Dietary phenolic compounds: Role on gut health and microbiota
7. Nanoparticle based delivery systems of phytochemicals in Gut related disorders
8. Alteration of Gut microbiota and their metabolites by dietary phytochemicals
9. Brain-Gut axis: Phytochemical Interventions
10. Gut microbiota and cardiovascular health
11. Phytochemicals and Gut Barrier Integrity
12. Therapeutic potential of alkaloids in treatment of gut associated diseases
13. Exploring promising pharmaceutical candidates for gastrointestinal disorders using in silico approaches
14. Phytochemicals in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer
15. Therapeutic potential of phytochemicals and role of gut microbiota in Neurodegenerative diseases
