Abstract:
A method of minimizing fat accumulation in a growing animal without limiting caloric intake or preventing or treating obesity in an animal, the method comprising orally administering a ketogenic diet and a nutrient blend to the animal. The nutrient blend can include at least four nutrients selected from the group consisting of walnut, maitake mushroom extract, EGCG, turmeric root powder, lycopene, taurine, EPA, and DHA to the animal.
Abstract:
The invention provides methods for mimicking chronic caloric restriction to impart a health benefit in an animal or for using an intermittent partially restricted diet to impart a health benefit to an animal. Such methods can include feeding an animal two different diets having differing caloric contents in a specific ratio to achieve such benefits.
Abstract:
The invention provides methods for enhancing neurogenesis in an animal. In one embodiment, a method for enhancing neurogenesis in an animal can comprise identifying an animal that is suffering from cognitive decline, that is at risk of becoming cognitively impaired, that is diagnosed with a disease, disorder, or other condition that affects its cognitive abilities, or that is at risk of contracting a disease, disorder, or other condition that affects its cognitive abilities, and administering a composition comprising an unsaturated fatty acid (UFA), a nitric oxide releasing compound (NORC), a B vitamin, and an antioxidant, to the animal, wherein the composition is administered in an amount effective for enhancing neurogenesis in the animal.
Abstract:
The invention provides methods for the treatment of cancer, reduction of cancer risk, or prevention of cancer in a companion animal, comprising: identifying the companion animal having cancer or at risk for cancer and feeding a dietary formulation in a therapeutically effective amount to the animal. The dietary formulation can comprise 20% to 60% protein; 10% to 40% fat; 10% to 50% carbohydrates; and 0.01% to 5% alpha-amylase inhibitor, and optionally 1% to 50% resistant starch. The therapeutically effective amount can be effective for the treatment of cancer, the prevention of cancer, or the reduction of cancer risk in the companion animal by lowering the postprandial blood glucose of the companion animal as compared to the postprandial blood glucose of the companion animal ingesting a comparable dietary formulation that excludes the alpha-amylase inhibitor.
Abstract:
The invention provides methods for promoting weight loss by an animal, promoting weight loss by an animal while preventing or minimizing loss of lean body mass by the animal, preventing a reduction in energy metabolism by an animal, reducing the risk of regaining weight by an animal after weight loss, and ameliorating undesirable animal behaviors associated with reduced caloric intake by intermittently feeding an animal a first diet containing calories that meet the animal's maintenance energy requirements and a second diet containing calories that do not meet the animal's maintenance energy requirements. In preferred embodiments, the described feeding pattern and diets are fed in conjunction with one or more weight loss agents.
Abstract:
The invention provides methods for using fatty acid alkanolamides for ameliorating one or more symptoms or conditions caused by stress, e.g., loss of appetite, or for maintaining and enhancing nutrient and caloric intake by an animal under stress or that has experienced stress. Generally, the fatty acid alkanolamides in amounts of from about 0.1 to about 1500 mg/kg/day before, during or after stress, preferably on a regular or daily basis as a component of a food composition or as a dietary supplement.
Abstract translation:本发明提供了使用脂肪酸链烷醇酰胺改善由压力引起的一种或多种症状或病症的方法,例如食欲不振,或用于维持和增强动物在压力下或经历过压力的营养和热量摄入。 通常,脂肪酸链烷醇酰胺的量在压力之前,期间或之后为约0.1至约1500mg / kg /天,优选作为食物组合物的组分或作为膳食补充剂的常规或每日。
Abstract:
The invention provides compositions and methods for preserving lean body mass and promoting fat loss during weight loss. The methods comprise identifying an animal that is obese or overweight and administering to the animal a food composition in an amount less than the animal's baseline maintenance energy requirement (MER), the food composition comprising from about 30% to about 65% protein, from about 10% to about 20% carbohydrate, and from about 10% to about 25% fat; where the protein and carbohydrate are in a ratio effective for preserving lean body mass and promoting fat loss during administration of the food composition to the animal.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for increasing mobility or activity in an animal or treating or preventing frailty in an animal, comprising identifying an animal with decreased mobility or activity or having frailty and administering a composition comprising one or more medium chain triglycerides (MCTs) to the animal in a therapeutically amount effective for increasing mobility or activity in the animal or treating frailty in the animal. Additionally, a food composition can comprise about 15% to about 50% protein, about 5% to about 40% fat, about 5% to about 50% carbohydrate, and about 1% to about 40% of one or more medium chain triglycerides (MCTs); wherein the composition has a moisture content of about 5% to about 20% and the MCTs are present in a therapeutically amount effective for increasing mobility or activity in the animal or treating frailty in the animal.
Abstract:
Gene expression profiles associated with improved or maintained lean body mass or reduced body fat are disclosed. The gene expression profiles were determined in adipose, liver, and muscle tissue of animals subjected to lean-promoting regimens such as consumption of a high protein diet, ingestion of conjugated linolenic acid, and/or increased exercise. Methods of using such profiles for the identification of pharmaceutical substances, nutraceutical substances, dietary substances, or treatment regimens that modulate or contribute to desired phenotypes in animals are also disclosed
Abstract:
The invention provides methods for determining if an animal's metabolism has been shifted to ketogenic status by collecting a first urine sample from the animal when the animal's metabolism is not in a ketogenic status; collecting a second urine sample from the animal when the animal's metabolism is possibly in a ketogenic status; analyzing the first urine sample and the second urine sample for beta-hydroxy butyrate; and determining that the animal's metabolism has been shifted to ketogenic status if the concentration of beta-hydroxy butyrate in the second urine sample exceeds the concentration of beta-hydroxy butyrate in the first urine sample by ten percent (10%) or more.