Advances in Health and Disease. Volume 81

This book discusses advances in health and disease, treatment and prevention. Chapter 1 explores how the co-administration of probiotics and prebiotics can enhance survival, colonization, and antimicrobial properties, offering a promising avenue for clinical intervention. Chapter 2 aims to present recent progress in light-based therapies for cancer and infectious disease treatments with a special focus on silica nanoparticle designs. Chapter 3 focuses on presenting the main effects provided by the regular consumption of Lpb. plantarum, in addition to its use in different food matrices. Chapter 4 focuses on acid-based enzyme inhibitors and catalase activity. Chapter 5 discusses in vitro maturation, in vitro fertilization, and polycystic ovary syndrome. Chapter 6 outlines techniques for inducing atrial fibrillation in a laboratory setting and explores the underlying mechanisms responsible for its perpetuation. Chapter 7 analyzes the treatment of prostate hyperplasia. Finally, Chapter 8 focuses on the gravitational mass spectroscopy (GMS) method, studied in the dynamics of RNA genome conformations of the H5N1 and SARS-Cov2 serotypes in the saliva of a proband who was infected with these viruses twice with an interval of two months.