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Even in ancient times, medicines for humans were those substances and products that they ate: roots, fruits, bark, leaves and stems of plants, body parts and organs of various animals (including those that are generally considered inedible from a modern point of view), soil and minerals. Information about the healing and health-improving effects of food substances has been preserved in ancient Eastern medicine (ancient Chinese, ancient Indian, Tibetan), which has survived to this day.

The recipes of therapeutic and prophylactic agents at that time had a very complex, multi-component composition and natural origin. Dietary supplements (biologically active additives) as a special category of products appeared in the middle of the 20th century.

The need for special food additives containing various biologically active substances was dictated both by a change in the diet of modern people, a sharp decrease in the concentration of vitamins and minerals in it, and by the need to extend the period of activity and working capacity of the aging population of developed countries.

Full version of the access article <a href="https://pro.bhub.com.ua/cosmetology/kosmetologiya-ta-nutricevtika-badi-vitamini-y-antioksidanti">in Ukrainian</a>

Cosmetology and nutraceuticals: Dietary supplements, vitamins and antioxidants