This book focuses on the influence of diet on the immune system and how altering one's diet helps prevent and treat infections and chronic diseases. It reviews basic immunology and discusses changes in immune function throughout the lifecycle. It features comprehensive chapters on obesity and the role of immune cells in adipose tissue. Topics include undernutrition and malnutrition, infant immune maturation, pre and probiotics, mechanisms of immune regulation by various vitamins and minerals, and nutrition and the aging immune system.

This book introduces the function and effects of the functional food, AHCC (Active Hexose Correlated Compound), which is extracted from a culture of shiitake mushroom mycelia. Fifteen years have passed since The Basic and Clinical Researches on AHCC, which I co-edited with fellow ICNIM chairpersons. In that period, research on AHCC has spread throughout the world, and a great deal of new knowledge has been accumulated. The Clinician's Guide to AHCC has been compiled to present this accumulated knowledge with contributions from the researchers who engaged...

This book introduces the function and effects of the functional food, AHCC (Active Hexose Correlated Compound), which is extracted from a culture of shiitake mushroom mycelia. Fifteen years have passed since The Basic and Clinical Researches on AHCC, which I co-edited with fellow ICNIM chairpersons. In that period, research on AHCC has spread throughout the world, and a great deal of new knowledge has been accumulated. The Clinician's Guide to AHCC has been compiled to present this accumulated knowledge with contributions from the researchers who engaged...