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.
1. Chapter 1. Introduction to gastrointestinal disorders - p. 1 2. Chapter 2. Limitations of current therapeutic strategies for the gastrointestinal disorders - p. 13 3. Chapter 3. Recent advances in diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal disorders - p. 41 4. Chapter 4. Diet and nutritional management of gastrointestinal disorders - p. 59 5. Chapter 5. Biochemical characterization, production, and medicinal properties of phytochemicals - p. 83 6. Chapter 6. Dietary phenolic compounds: Role on gut health and microbiota - p. 107 7. Chapter 7. Nanoparticle-based delivery systems of phytochemicals for gut-related disorders - p. 123 8. Chapter 8. Alteration of gut microbiota and their metabolites by dietary phytochemicals - p. 149 9. Chapter 9. Brain-gut axis: Phytochemical interventions - p. 181 10. Chapter 10. Gut microbiota and cardiovascular health - p. 199 11. Chapter 11. Phytochemicals and gut barrier integrity - p. 217 12. Chapter 12. Therapeutic potential of alkaloids in treatment of gut-associated diseases - p. 251 13. Chapter 13. Exploring promising pharmaceutical candidates for gastrointestinal disorders using In silico approaches - p. 267 14. Chapter 14. Phytochemicals in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer - p. 291 15. Chapter 15. Therapeutic potential of phytochemicals and role of gut microbiota in neurodegenerative diseases - p. 307 16. Index - p. 337
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.
1. Chapter 1. Introduction to gastrointestinal disorders - p. 1 2. Chapter 2. Limitations of current therapeutic strategies for the gastrointestinal disorders - p. 13 3. Chapter 3. Recent advances in diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal disorders - p. 41 4. Chapter 4. Diet and nutritional management of gastrointestinal disorders - p. 59 5. Chapter 5. Biochemical characterization, production, and medicinal properties of phytochemicals - p. 83 6. Chapter 6. Dietary phenolic compounds: Role on gut health and microbiota - p. 107 7. Chapter 7. Nanoparticle-based delivery systems of phytochemicals for gut-related disorders - p. 123 8. Chapter 8. Alteration of gut microbiota and their metabolites by dietary phytochemicals - p. 149 9. Chapter 9. Brain-gut axis: Phytochemical interventions - p. 181 10. Chapter 10. Gut microbiota and cardiovascular health - p. 199 11. Chapter 11. Phytochemicals and gut barrier integrity - p. 217 12. Chapter 12. Therapeutic potential of alkaloids in treatment of gut-associated diseases - p. 251 13. Chapter 13. Exploring promising pharmaceutical candidates for gastrointestinal disorders using In silico approaches - p. 267 14. Chapter 14. Phytochemicals in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer - p. 291 15. Chapter 15. Therapeutic potential of phytochemicals and role of gut microbiota in neurodegenerative diseases - p. 307 16. Index - p. 337
