Systemic Investigation of Acute Toxicity of Some Food Supplements on The Market in Turkey

Abstract

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®. 

Material-Method: In the experimental design, there were 10 groups (1 control and 9 application groups) male mice. To observe acute toxicity, clinical observation was performed for 72 hours and the biochemical and histopathological parameters of the animals were evaluated at the end of the application. 

Results: According to the results obtained from the study, there were not found significant differences in biochemical and histopathological evaluations between the control and the application groups. 

Conclusion: The acute toxicity effect of the food supplements was not determined. May be further studies with bigger numbers of samples investigating the nephrotoxic effects of these products lighten this matter.

Keywords

• Acute toxicity,mice,supplement foods

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