Can Nutraceuticals a Day Keep the Doctor Away

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Divya R1, Ashok V2 and Rajajeyakumar M3* 1Department of Physiology, Karpagam Faculty of Medical Sciences and Research, Chennai, India 2Department of Biochemistry, Karpagam Faculty of Medical Sciences and Research, Chennai, India 3Department of Physiology, Trichy SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Chennai, India *Corresponding author: Rajajeyakumar M, Department of Physiology, Trichy SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Chennai, India, Tel: 09751382650; E-mail: rajakumar60@gmail.com Received date: February 11, 2019; Accepted date: February 13, 2019; Published date: February 18, 2019 Copyright: ©2019 Divya R, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Introduction '’So where do we go from here? Well, I think, again I'm not sure, that the quest to demonstrate whether chronic administration, long‐term diet, long‐term supplementation, can prevent serious diseases like cancer, heart disease, dementia, arthritis has come to an end’’. -Stephen L. DeFelice, 2014; said the man who lectured about the term ‘Nutraceutical’ in a scientific session 2014 [1]. The reputation of the Nutraceuticals and its evidence of efficiency is vague and every so often conflicting because of their meagre trial designs and inflated popularity for profitable drives [2,3]. Stephen DeFelice a renowned physician, the founder of ‘Foundation for Innovation in Medicine’ (FIM; Cranford, NJ, USA) coined the term 'Nutraceutical' in 1989 and defined Nutraceuticals as “a food or portion of a food substance that delivers health or medical benefits, which includes the treatment as well as the prevention of occurrence and progression of disease [4].