ROLE OF NUTRACEUTICALS IN THE MANAGEMENT OF DIABETES MELLITUS: A REVIEW
Rajashekar Perusomula, Mahesh Kumar Sharma, Priyanshu Tyagi, Arvind Singh, Pooja Khanpara, Tulsi Tilva, Vinod Gahlot and D. Prasanth*
ABSTRACT
A state of hyperglycemia caused by a deficiency of insulin production, action, or both characterizes diabetes, a complicated, chronic illness. Numerous nutraceuticals employed in clinical practice have been demonstrated to target diabetes, favorably influencing a range of biochemical & clinical outcomes. In many conventional medical systems, hypoglycemic drugs are used to treat, control, and prevent diabetes mellitus. These medicines are made from various plants. These extracts of plants have shown a clinically significant advantage in maintaining healthy blood sugar and lipid profiles. The use of natural products, herbal cures, and nutraceuticals in therapies has grown recently on a global scale.Conventional therapy options that are available as synthetic drugs do not satisfy the expectations of therapeutic demands for healing a variety of pathological diseases. Nutraceuticals offer an additional hopeful therapeutic option for diabetes with fewer adverse effects than herbal drugs. Nutraceuticals are characterized as non-specific biological therapies that use only organic products to maintain and advance health, halt the progression of cancer, and treat symptoms. Nutritional supplements are said to have potent diseaseprevention, disease-cure, and health-promoting qualities. This study aims to highlight and comment on certain of the most widely used nutraceuticals for diabetes prevention.
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