Marine Waters for Health and Well-Being
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Water and One Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2025) | Viewed by 765
Special Issue Editors
Interests: marine waters; seawater; macroalgae; marine molecules; aqueous extraction; interfacial water; algebraic biology
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Interests: cell migration; cell biology; cancer cells; proteomics; cancer research; growth factors; endothelial cells
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We have organized this Special Issue with the aim of collecting research articles and review papers which focus on the use of seawater or natural waters with similar composition, as well as marine waters (i.e., waters related to a sea source) for health and well-being.
Seawater is a rich medium in terms of its mineral, biological and microbiological composition, with potential benefits for health and well-being. In particular, seawater contains a wide variety of mineral salts and trace elements that can make up for what is sometimes an inadequate intake in the modern diet. In addition, phytoplankton make minerals bioassimilable by chelation with amino acids. The following are just a few examples of how seawater can be used directly: seawater (hypertonic or isotonic) can be used to maintain homeostasis; filtered planktonic seawater drawn from ocean vortices can be used for cosmetic and health applications; deep seawater of the highest purity can be used for nutraceuticals; and warm seawater can be used for thermal cures or thalassotherapy, and so on.
The topic can be extended to marine waters, which may also contain soluble organic molecules of interest. Thus, we welcome work on salt marsh water, marine colloidal sludge, water extracted from seaweed cells, water contained in oysters, mussels, and clams, and waters issued from marine biotechnological processes.
Dr. Laurent Vandanjon
Dr. Vincent Blanckaert
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- seawater
- marine waters
- deep seawater
- marine colloids
- algae
- cosmetics
- nutraceutics
- pharmaceutics
- thalassotherapy
- marine biotechnology
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