| abstract |
The invention is dietary supplements, nutraceutical compositions, and medical foods that have cytoprotective and health promoting effects. The compositions contain an effective amount of dietary agmatine as a cytoprotective ingredient consisting of nutraceutical acceptable salts thereof. The compositions may contain agmatine alone or in combination with other dietary ingredients having health promoting effects. The compositions can be prepared with dietary accepted excipients as lubricants, glidants, sorbants, and disintegrants, and compatible forms of carriers, including but not limited to, powders, tablets, capsules, soft gelatin capsule, controlled release capsules and tablets, lozenges and chewable preparations, liquid suspensions, suspensions in an edible supporting matrix or foodstuff and oral rehydration solutions, to enable consumption of said compositions. |