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Dietary Supplements

Team and Contact Details

Student Name School Degree Year Email
Umama AyyubASABMS/M.PhilSecond[email protected]
Tooba KhanASABMS/M.PhilSecond[email protected]

Inter School Idea ? No
Do you need expertises from another area: No
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Idea Details

Idea Name: Dietary Supplements
Slogan: "Let the food be your medicine" or "Let the nature cure you"
Supervisor Name: Dr. Maria Shabbir
Supervisor Designation: Associate Professor
Supervisor School: ASAB
Supervisor Department: Healthcare Biotechnology
Contact number: 0334 5510903
Email ID: [email protected]
Abstract:
    Breast cancer is one of the most common cancer in Pakistan, accounting for nearly one in nine female patients. The incidence rate of breast cancer is 2.5 times higher than neighboring countries. Also, the recurrence rate of breast cancer varies from 3% to 15%. The alarming rise in breast cancer occurrence multifactorial. The dietary habits are one of the major reasons of high disease incidence now
What is the unmet need in society that your idea will fulfill ?
    Now a days, our society heavily depends on pharmaceutical industry for treating various diseases. Over dependency on chemical industry has further contributed to worsen the situation even more. Not changing our dietary and lifestyle habits are the unmet need in the society. Our idea aims to develop
Who needs it ? How many would benefit ?
   Our design supplement is safe to go for every age group, but the the group that will be benefited it the most includes women, both post-menopausal and peri-menopausal.
How will the solution works
    The theory is to extract lignin from flaxseed and sesame seeds into the alcoholic solvents and then separating residual solids from lignin rich alcoholic solvent. After extracting the purpose is to devise a method for the preparation of lignin-fatty acid capsules.
Who are your competitors ? How is your solution different
    Our solution constitutes the less painful and economical way of treating and suppressing cancer by focusing on dietary supplement developments from plant-based foods.
Status: new
Entry Date & Time: 2022-12-15 (1735)