Dietary Supplements for Chronic Pain and Inflammatory Diseases
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutritional Epidemiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 August 2024) | Viewed by 8886
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are setting up a Special Issue with the aim of providing updated information on how dietary supplements work to regulate chronic pain and inflammatory diseases.
Chronic pain is a complex and multifaceted condition. The neuroplastic changes that can occur in the CNS can lead to augmented pain transmission which involves changes in the nervous system and can have widespread effects on the body and mind, and thus it deserves to be considered a disease entity. Moreover, there has been an accumulation of evidence that points to the existence of a close association between chronic pain and inflammatory diseases.
They represent health disorders that affect a significant proportion of the population with an important decline in their well-being over an extended period of time. In this context, dietary supplement intake can support overall health and well-being. As such, this therefore may be retrained as an effective strategy in the regulation of chronic pain and inflammation.
In the field of food science, the interaction of food choices and the effect of the cumulative exposure to different dietary components as well as any single bioactive food component may have the potential for a strong impact in the prevention of the onset and progression of chronic pain and inflammatory diseases by monitoring and modulating many functions of the human body and maintaining homeostasis.
There already exist known dietary supplements with anti-inflammatory properties which are helpful in reducing pain and inflammation in several conditions, including omega-3 fatty acids, curcuminoids in curcumin, phenolic and terpene compounds in ginger, and the terpenic boswellic acids mixture in Boswellia.
Focusing on the combination of foods with multiple nutrients or ingredients and giving importance to natural molecular entities and their effects, it is necessary to provide new insight in such evidence. In this Special Issue of Nutrients, we welcome original research articles (including animal and clinical studies) and review articles on the current state of research in this field.
Dr. Salvatore Genovese
Dr. Serena Fiorito
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- chronic pain
- inflammatory diseases
- widespread effects
- well-being
- food science
- dietary supplements
- bioactive food component
- physical activity
- multiple nutrients
- natural molecular entities
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