Nutraceuticals in the management of alzheimer's disease

The aim of this review is attempts to enlist and display the role of some nutraceuticals being used as in the prevention and management of Alzheimer's disease. Various cognitive enhancer are widely used traditionally as medicine to prevent Alzheimer's disease. Nutraceuticals are food or part of a food including naturals (like plants, animals, minerals, or microbial sources) or chemical groups (like vitamins, antioxidants, amino acids and fatty acids) that promote wellness or health benefits including the prevention and/or treatment of a disease. One of the best benefits of nutraceuticals is that they provide a better therapeutic hope with lesser side effects compared to pharmaceutical agents or other conventional approach. Some of the herbal nutraceuticals like Gingko Biloba, Huperzine Alpha are used in clinical practice to target the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.