Abstract: A method of improving nutrition and/or treating low grade inflammation in an elderly human subject comprises administering to said subject a cysteine source so as to provide metabolically available cysteine in the diet of said subject in a proportion relative to all available amino acids which is greater that the proportion of cysteine relative to all amino acids which corresponds to the requirements of a healthy young human subject.
Type:
Application
Filed:
July 12, 2011
Publication date:
November 3, 2011
Applicants:
INSTITUT NATIONAL RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE, NESTEC S.A.
Abstract: A method of improving nutrition and/or treating low grade inflammation in an elderly human subject comprises administering to said subject a cysteine source so as to provide metabolically available cysteine in the diet of said subject in a proportion relative to all available amino acids which is greater that the proportion of cysteine relative to all amino acids which corresponds to the requirements of a healthy young human subject.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 14, 2006
Publication date:
August 20, 2009
Applicants:
NESTEC S.A., INSTITUT NATIONAL RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE