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With all the concern in today's market for antioxidants and anti-aging products, I have not read much about this topic: Vitamin A as an antioxidant, and animal sources vs. raw food sourc

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

es. I have only read that it is an antioxidant, and that people usually take it in pill form. Today I am going to write about the need for vitamin A from natural, raw food sources, how

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

it affects the body, and what causes us to be deficient in this essential antioxidant.

In my research I have found that Vitamin A can come from animal, as well as raw food sources. Our

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

odies take the vitamin A from animal sources, and convert it to retinol, and the vitamin A from raw food sources (called beta carotene) is converted to retinal or retinol. The source is

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

mportant, since the animal source can be overdosed on (causing death, osteoporosis, and birth defects, to name a few things), and the raw food source cannot. Our bodies simply

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ake carotene, and convert it to vitamin A as needed. See my Vitamin A chart for a list of raw food vs. animal sources of vitamin A.

Vitamin A helps us as an antioxidant by facilitatin

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

bodily tissue reparation and maintenance (infection resistance), nourishing the cornea, ensuring permeability of membranes, and stimulating our thyroid and adrenal glands, to name a few

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

things. Refer to the vitamin A chart for a more complete list.

Some of the deficiency symptoms are acne, allergies, anorexia, appetite loss, dry hair, fatigue, insomnia, rough dry skin

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

soft tooth enamel, and migraine headaches.

The vitamins B complex, C, D, and E (and others, see chart) will help our bodies to use and/or absorb vitamin A, thus, our source needs to be

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

more from raw food, to achieve optimal effects in our skin, hair, and eyes. When we get our nutrition from living, raw food, rather than pills, we will achieve much better results, as t

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

e fresh, raw food contains what we need to absorb and digest what we eat. See my article on enzymes to better understand why I say raw food, vs. just any plant matter.

I remember readi

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

ng this great true Indian story, Ride the Wind. This white woman was captured, but became one of the Indians in her heart, so when she was “rescued”, many years later, she didn't want

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

o be rescued anymore. Anyway, she tells of the buffalo hunt, and her people being so starved for food, the first thing they would do upon killing the buffalo, was to immediately, in the

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

field, eat the animals' vital organs, especially the liver. She was grossed out at first, but came to love it, pretty much immediately, since she needed the nutrition. I believe they w

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

re starving for vitamin A, because that is where vitamin A is found! I am so thankful to live in this great country, where we can access whatever we feel like eating, whenever we want!

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

So, the obvious reasons for modern day deficiency are, not getting the complementing nutrients, not eating any of the animal sources (crash dieting?) and not eating plenty of the natural

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

raw food sources. There is one more reason: “anti-vitamins”. These products work against our absorption of vitamin A: alcohol, coffee, sugar, and tobacco, to name just a few (s

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

e chart for more). So with the combination of most people just not eating enough fresh raw food, and eating too much of the wrong foods, is it any wonder that skin problems abound, as w

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

ll as the other deficiency symptoms?

I encourage you to make wise choices, and to eat plenty of raw foods. Here, in the land of plenty, where we can access all the yellow fruits and veg

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

tables any time of the year, we have no excuse! For a great raw food recipe book that will help ensure your intake of vitamin A, check out Live Unfired Foods, by Klacena Ferguson

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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