Use of diet supplements in older patients

Prylińska Monika, Bieniek Daria, Karpińska Anna, Skierkowska Natalia, Androsiuk-Perkowska Joanna, Perkowski Radosław, Husejko Jakub, Topka Weronika, Gajos Małgorzata, Kujawska Agnieszka, Kędziora-Kornatowska Kornelia. Use of diet supplements in older patients. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(4):147-158. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1217425 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5413 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part B item 1223 (26.01.2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eISSN 2391-8306 7 © The Author (s) 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 21.02.2018. Revised 22.03.2018. Accepted: 12.04.2018. Use of diet supplements in older patients Monika Prylińska, Daria Bieniek, Anna Karpińska, Natalia Skierkowska, Joanna Androsiuk-Perkowska, Radosław Perkowski, Jakub Husejko, Weronika Topka, Małgorzata Gajos, Agnieszka Kujawska, Kornelia Kędziora-Kornatowska Collegium Medicum im. Ludwika Rydygiera w Bydgoszczy, UMK w Toruniu Abstract Introduction: Dietary supplements are ingredients in the diet of a growing number of people, especially seniors. The physiological processes of aging of the body are often accompanied by disease processes, which may result in malnutrition of the body and supplement using could be a presumably auxiliary therapy. Material and Methods: The paper reviews literature using the EBSCO and Google Scholar databases. Articles have been analyzed using the keywords aging, elderly, malnutrition, supplements, vitamins, minerals, supplementation. The article presents effects of the use of individual dietary supplements. Results: Among the elderly, it would be worth to consider supplementation with vitamins D3, K2, B12. In addition to vitamins, iron, selenium, creatine, leucine, milk thistle, omega 3 acids use could be considered. Conclusions: Vitamins, microelements and amino acids are essential for the proper functioning of the body, while some groups of elderly are malnutritioned and could gain benefit from diet supplements. Individually prescribed therapy using supplements should be based on deficiencies examination using objective tests, for example blood test. Key words: aging, elderly, malnutrition, supplements, vitamins, minerals, supplementation