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This chapter reviews emerging side effects of various nutritional supplements and alternative medicine practices, highlighting potential toxicities and stressing the need for careful identification and management by healthcare professionals.

Men need essential vitamins like D, B Complex, and A for health, and should consult doctors for personalized advice.

This study found that consumption of dietary supplements and sports nutrition may lead to therapeutic and cosmetic improvements, benefiting skin, hair, and nails while potentially enhancing athletic performance.

In this study, the researchers found that over half of the tested calcium food supplements had calcium levels exceeding the amounts declared by their manufacturers, indicating a need for better quality control.

This study developed a Neusilin® US2-based solid self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system for finasteride that showed improved stability and drug delivery, with complete dissolution comparable to standard Propecia® tablets.

This study designed fast-dissolving Minoxidil tablets to improve patient compliance and found that formulations containing 6% croscarmellose sodium were optimal, showing rapid in-vitro dispersion and effective drug release without drug interaction.

In this study, Tithonia diversifolia extract was found to improve certain digestive parameters in crossbred sheep but did not enhance growth performance, as the improvements in digestion did not translate into increased body weight or feed conversion.

This article reviews the role of vitamin D and its metabolites in regulating calcium homeostasis and highlights their effects on the intestine, kidney, bone, and parathyroid gland, without reporting new clinical results.

This in-silico study identified several compounds as potential Vitamin D Receptor agonists, with Dolichosterone showing the strongest binding energy.

The study observed that consuming Pflorida soup, made from UV-exposed oyster mushrooms, maintained significant vitamin D levels comparable to recommended daily intake, despite storage and cooking reducing the vitamin content.

This study developed a validated method to detect prohibited drugs in dietary supplements, finding minoxidil, triaminodil, and finasteride in some samples.

This observational study using NHANES data from 2011 to 2020 found that the use of hair, skin, and nails supplements almost doubled, particularly among younger, female, Black, and Hispanic/Latino individuals, despite limited evidence on their efficacy and potential health risks.

The document concludes that scientists created various steroids with different properties, including a more effective semi-synthetic vitamin D.

Biotin and collagen may help improve hair health.

This study found that sulforaphane may help alleviate hair loss by increasing hair count after 18 weeks of use and enhancing the expression of a DHT-degrading enzyme in cellular models.

This study found that after 12 weeks of taking 10 mg of S-equol daily, over 90% of participating perimenopausal and menopausal women reported improvements in symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, and sleep disturbances.

This study found that rabbits fed a diet deficient in Vitamin E developed severe muscular dystrophy that was not fully prevented by adding selenium, Vitamin E supplements, or natural feedstuffs, indicating other nutritional deficiencies.

In this retrospective case series, therapeutic responses to immunomodulatory and incretin-based therapies for Dercum's disease showed considerable individual variation, suggesting these treatments might be exploratory options when surgery isn't feasible, though further controlled studies are needed for definitive conclusions.

This review explores how vitamin D3 analogs could target various skin processes and diseases, potentially offering selective and effective treatments beyond psoriasis, but reports no new clinical findings.

This study found that six-month supplementation with fish-derived collagen peptides, calcium, and vitamin D3 improved skin hydration and elasticity and reduced hair loss in menopausal women, with collagen playing a dominant role in enhancing skin elasticity.

This study found that forming solid dispersions and inclusion complexes of finasteride significantly increased its solubility compared to its pure form.

In this chapter, researchers discuss how microRNAs (miRNAs) interact with vitamin D signaling, highlighting their emerging role as mediators in vitamin D-regulated disorders and their potential for developing miRNA-based clinical applications.

In this study on Sprague-Dawley rats, 0.60 mg/kg doses of L-Se-methylselenocysteine and sodium selenite were associated with liver toxicity and reduced sperm motility, while Se-enriched peptides showed no observable adverse effects up to 0.60 mg/kg.

This article reviews the role of micronutrients in athletes' diets, highlighting that adequate dietary intake generally meets their needs without requiring supplementation, unless deficiencies are present.

This study found that finasteride's solubility and bioavailability were improved when using a dimethyl-β-cyclodextrin inclusion complex compared to the drug alone.

This research highlights dermatologists' concerns about the widespread use of sports supplements, noting that nutritional supplements associated with muscle-building and appearance enhancement can lead to dermatological issues like acne and alopecia, while potentially containing harmful substances such as undisclosed anabolic steroids.

In this case study, the authors reported a post-bariatric surgery patient who developed acne due to inappropriate vitamin supplementation, emphasizing the need for careful monitoring and education on vitamin use to prevent complications in such patients.

This study found that, in female patients with idiopathic telogen effluvium, a supplement containing zinc, biotin, and other nutrients significantly improved hair loss and quality over 180 days, whereas another supplement with different ingredients had less consistent effects.

Most women with hair loss take more supplements than average, but these often don't help and can be risky and costly.

This review summarizes the enhanced absorption and bioavailability of phytosome delivery systems, which combine herbal extracts with phospholipids to improve therapeutic potential, and provides an updated overview of their development, commercial availability, and patented technologies.