Role of Nutraceuticals in Obesity Management: A Mechanism and Prospective Supported by Molecular Docking Studies.
Abd El-Nasser B SingabEsraa A ElhawaryYasmin A ElkhawasIten M FawzyAshaimaa Y MoussaNada M MostafaPublished in: Journal of medicinal food (2024)
Obesity and its comorbidities represent a major health problem worldwide. Treatment by reducing food intake and physical activity interventions has limited success especially with elderly people with chronic diseases. Nutraceuticals are naturally originated and successfully used for their physiological and nutritional benefit in health care. They might be alternative means to help lose weight and reduce obesity-associated metabolic disorders with the improvement of health, delay the aging process, prevention of chronic diseases, increase of life expectancy, or support to the structure or function of the body. The current study enumerates the inherent role of nutraceuticals in the management of obesity and its related comorbidities. The study is supported with the molecular docking studies discussing the mechanism of action. An attempt to optimize the role of nutraceuticals is made in this article in addition to widen the scope of its use in this chronic worldwide disease.
Keyphrases
- molecular docking
- weight loss
- healthcare
- insulin resistance
- physical activity
- metabolic syndrome
- weight gain
- type diabetes
- high fat diet induced
- molecular dynamics simulations
- public health
- body mass index
- mental health
- health information
- depressive symptoms
- skeletal muscle
- middle aged
- adipose tissue
- combination therapy
- health promotion
- drug induced
- body weight
- smoking cessation
- replacement therapy