When it comes to supplements, absorption matters just as much as the dosage. You could be taking the most potent multivitamin or mineral supplement, but if your body can’t absorb it properly, it won’t ...

I drink a full glass of milk every day and eat cheese, but still, I am deficient in calcium. I include iron-rich foods in my diet to meet my daily requirement of iron, but I am still anemic. It is ...

Want to improve the nutritional benefits of your favourite foods? You may need to start thinking about bioavailability… We all want to get the most out of the food we eat, but there’s much more to ...

Objective: To measure the bioavailability of selenium from cooked and raw fish in humans by estimating and comparing apparent absorption and retention of selenium in biosynthetically labelled fish ...

The term ‘bioavailability’ refers to how much of a drug actually reaches the bloodstream. Oral bioavailability, the bioavailability of drugs that are swallowed or otherwise delivered into the stomach, ...

The randomized, open-label, crossover clinical study, led by Priyank Rathi, MD, was published in the science journal Phytomedicine Plus, last July. It evaluated the bioavailability in 16 healthy human ...

Although efforts have been made to improve solubility, many poorly soluble drugs still reach the market. Peter Nielsen discusses new developments in solubilisation technology, which could help those ...

Recently, protein quality has emerged as an important health issue, especially in low income countries where plants form the main source of protein in the diet. Protein quality is likely to have an ...

Bioavailability enhancement presents one of the most interesting challenges in the way aseptic spray drying projects are approached. With more drug candidates emerging that need aseptic processing to ...