Nutrition and Nutraceuticals for Pain Prevention and Treatment
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 3756
Special Issue Editors
Interests: pain assessment; pain management; pain biomarker; free radicals in pain; antioxidants; pain epigenetics; nutraceuticals for pain management
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: pain assessment; pain management; pain biomarker; pain prevention; free radicals; antioxidants; pain epigenetics; inflammatory markers
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Integrative and personalized health places a strong emphasis on diet and nutrition because of their significant effects on the body and longevity. Lifestyle changes are a general threat towards health status of societies and hence increase societal health care costs. Food habits have an impact on both wellness and disease.
For example, in the integrative management of a wide range of pain conditions, dietary patterns such as the Mediterranean diet are mainstay possibly due to their anti-inflammatory and antioxidant beneficial effects.
Mechanistic research has demonstrated that the anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties of polyphenols found in the Mediterranean diet are beneficial for inflammation and to some degree for chronic pain.
Prioritizing a healthy diet with proper nutrition and nutraceutical supplements remains a key factor among the modifiable behaviors.
Addressing this complexity requires a comprehensive examination of how nutrients and nutraceuticals work in the body, particularly in the context of chronic pain prevention and management.
This can include research on any chronic pain condition and can cover areas such as gastrointestinal function, musculoskeletal integrity, the gut–brain axis, immune function, inflammation, free radicals and oxidative stress, telomer shortening, epigenetic modifications, preventive/healing effects of diet, and research into how diet affects pain neurotransmission.
Different types of manuscripts, including original clinical research articles and up-to-date reviews (systematic reviews and meta-analyses), are welcome.
Dr. Carolina Muscoli
Dr. Lars Arendt-Nielsen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- diet
- nutrition
- nutraceuticals
- pain
- widespread chronic pain
- inflammation
- supplements
- epigenetics
- oxidative stress
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