Current concept of scientific pharmacotherapy. Role of nutrition in the regulation of body's vital activity and homeostasis
Kudrin, A.N.
Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk 1996(12): 20-23
1996
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-6047 PMID: 9102074 Document Number: 459398
Drugs affect all the body's living physiological systems: cells, tissues, organs, organism as a whole but not alone, but in combination with all substances and trace elements accumulated in the body in the interaction with the environment, mainly from the ingested foods, water, drinks, ready-made industrial foodstuffs containing food additives. Food is a drug precursor (prodrug) and requires methods used in the study of the quality of combined drugs. During evolution, man has adapted himself to the intake of a complex of components of ecology surrounding him in his whole life. All the intrinsic mechanisms of life (the construction of cellular membranes (the soft skeleton), the provision of cell and tissue performance, the metabolism of substances and energy) are interrelated by special regulatory molecular and biochemical systems which ensures the constancy of vital activities, the renewal of fluids and cells (homeostasis). The Russian foodstuffs are the most optimum to promote health and to create a favourable background for the effects of drugs, in particular Russian drugs which the population has adapted itself to. The development of manufacture of natural drugs, those of plant and biotechnological origin is promising. Natural varying food and goal-oriented biotechnological foods create a base for normal evolution, health promotion, prophylaxis and treatment in man with drugs and non-drugs.