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Nutritional and Medicinal Properties of Camel Milk
Published in Mehwish Iqbal, Complementary and Alternative Medicinal Approaches for Enhancing Immunity, 2023
Thousands of people around the globe are taking milk regularly because of its wonderful nutritional values such as being an excellent source of vitamin D and calcium; moreover, it helps in the growth and development of children though it also has established benefits for people of old age, particularly in menopausal women where lack of calcium is a high-risk factor for causing osteoporosis (El-Hatmi et al., 2006). Camel milk is a wholesome diet consisting of all the nutritional constituents. Camel milk consists of vitamins, minerals and fats in higher amounts and has extremely high energy. Camel milk demonstrates immunostimulatory effects and is effortlessly digested in the stomach; moreover, it is well accepted by children who are deficient in lactase enzyme and are allergic to cow milk (Ahamad et al., 2017; Al-Awadi & Srikumar, 2001; El-Agamy et al., 2009; Yateem et al., 2008).
Health promotion and person-to-person disease outbreaks
Published in Glenn Laverack, Health Promotion in Disease Outbreaks and Health Emergencies, 2017
Camels are the most likely reservoir host for MERS-CoV in the Middle East and the zoonotic source of infection in humans. A zoonotic disease can be transmitted from animals to people, but more specifically, a zoonotic disease is a disease that normally exists in animals but that can infect humans. The advice given to people is therefore to avoid visiting farms, markets or other places where camels are present and to practice general hygiene measures. These practices include regular hand-washing, before and after touching animals, and avoidance of contact with sick animals. The consumption of raw or undercooked animal products, including camel milk and meat, carries a high risk of infection unless it is pasteurised or cooked.
Boiling milk disrupts the social order of communities in Mali
Published in Kristina Roesel, Delia Grace, Food Safety and Informal Markets, 2014
Valentin Bognan Koné, Kristina Roesel, Gilbert Fokou, Kohei Makita, Delia Grace, Gnabeli Y. Roch, Bassirou Bonfoh
There are similar beliefs about special properties of camel milk among some camel keepers in East Africa; camel milk is often consumed as a nutraceutical (a food with health-giving properties). It is interesting that similar beliefs around the special properties of raw milk are held by some people in the United States of America; some buy shares in a cow because the only way it is legal to drink raw milk is if you own the animal.
Camel milk protein hydrosylate alleviates hepatic steatosis and hypertension in high fructose-fed rats
Published in Pharmaceutical Biology, 2022
Mohammad A. Alshuniaber, Ghedeir M. Alshammari, Samy M. Eleawa, Abu ElGasim A. Yagoub, Abdullrahman S. Al-Khalifah, Maha H. Alhussain, Laila Naif Al-Harbi, Mohammed Abdo Yahya
Camel milk is a basic nutritional source for many people living in the Arabian arid areas. It is believed to have many health-beneficial effects that protect against many chronic disorders (Alhaj 2020). Camel milk is popular in the Africa and Arabian Gulf region, especially in Saudi Arabia, and is consumed daily as fresh and soured milk (Kumar et al. 2016a; Alhaj 2020). Our previous studies have shown that fermented camel milk has potent antihypertensive effects in spontaneously induced hypertensive rats (SHR) due to its high content of bioactive peptides generated by the active bacterial (Yahya et al. 2017). After enzymatic hydrolysis, camel milk protein hydodrosylate (CMH) showed potent and stronger antioxidant effects as compared to bovine milk hydodrosylate (BMH) (Salami et al. 2011; Kumar et al. 2016b; Al-Shamsi et al. 2018). Also, a total of 12 angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitory peptides were identified from the water-soluble permeates of fermented camel milk using Lactobacillus helveticus and Lactobacillus acidophilus (Alhaj 2020).
Attenuation of streptozotocin induced high fat diet exacerbated dyslipidemia mediated hepatic and aortic injuries in male pigs by camel milk
Published in Egyptian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, 2023
Hadiza Bello Rilwan, Sunday Samuel Adebisi, James Abrak Timbuak, Sunday Blessing Oladele, Aliyu Muhammad, Wusa Makena, Adamu Abubakar Sadeeq
The elevated activities of serum AST, ALT, ALP, LDH, CK-MB, and GGT, the primary markers of hepatic injury in this study, revealed extensive tissue damage in the concerned organ due to STZ and high-fat diet treatment of pigs. Increased serum activities of all of these enzymes resulted from increased cellular leakage into the circulation, most likely due to a loss of functional integrity of membrane architecture [37]. This will promote an increase in necrotic cells in the affected tissues, as demonstrated in a previous study that found cardiac, renal, and liver disorders have a solid link to diabetes and atherosclerosis [38]. The dose-dependent camel milk and metformin administration reduced the hepatic specific damage indices in the treated groups, most likely due to the antioxidant activity of the camel milk [39,40]. However, the ameliorative potential of camel milk can be attributed to several of its ingredients, including the high content of insulin-like amino acids, insulin, immunoglobulins and peptides, antioxidant vitamins C and E, and immunomodulators, which can improve insulin sensitivity and reduce fasting glucose levels by suppressing oxidative stress, preventing vascular and liver degeneration, and increasing glucose uptake and utilization [12,41]. This research suggests that camel milk can repair and protect diabetes/atherosclerosis-affected liver and vascular tissues by stabilizing membranes and preventing intracellular enzyme leakage. The reversal of AST, ALT, ALP, LDH, CK-MB, and GGT levels could result from hepatic parenchymal cells’ repair and healing process. Camels’ protective benefits have already been documented in similar studies [42].