“Insight into the Biochemical Link between Biodiversity and Nutraceuticals

Abstract

Human civilization for achieving progress has created a major catastrophe threatening the foundations of biodiversity. Phenomena of industrial development, population explosion, global warming, coupled with the production of non-biodegradable molecules using unsustainable technologies to serve human needs has deteriorated the environment further. The distortion of the delicate ecological balance due to human activities has threatened the survival of biodiversity. Elimination of biodiversity directly questions the survival of our species too in the long run. Thus the need of the hour is to preserve biodiversity, so that its valuable products, like the nutraceuticals are harnessed for the benefit of human life. The article below focuses on the biochemical link between biodiversity and nutraceuticals.