International Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine Research

Yazarlar: Mustafa YAŞAR, Oğuzhan ŞENOĞUL, Ali GÖK, Kağan AĞAN, Aydan Fülden AĞAN, Ersin BEYAZÇİÇEK, Sinem KANTARCIOĞLU COŞKUN

Konular:Tamamlayıcı ve Entegre Tıp

Anahtar Kelimeler:Acute toxicity,Mice,Supplement foods

Özet: Objective: Along with changing living and working conditions in recent years, changes have occurred in eating habits. People are turning to supplements for many purposes such as supplementing normal nutrition, feeling more energetic, enhancing the immune system by taking vitamins and minerals that they think they do not get enough, and meeting their body's needs when they cannot eat a balanced and healthy diet. Supplements are prepared in various forms using nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, proteins, amino acids, plants, enzymes, fiber and fatty acids. These supplement foods are not intended to treat or prevent any disease. In general, supplement foods; it is not a substitute for natural nutrition, but it is intended to complement its deficiencies. They cannot be recommended and sold instead of medicines. Because of many of these products have natural content, they can be placed on the market without toxicity tests. In the current study, it is planned to observe the effects of acute systemic toxicity of supplements that are used in remember regeneration therapy method (RTM) and sold in the markets with the brands’ name of IST-ARD®, ARD-REM®, DVD-ARD®, KT-REM®, ARDZ-REM®, IST-GLIO®, IST-REM®, ROMX®, and REGULIN®. 

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