Method of reducing the likelihood of skin cancer in an individual human being

• US 10,111,913 B2
• Filed: 01/11/2017
• Issued: 10/30/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Seed Health, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Joseph E. Kovarik
• Inventors: Kovarik, Joseph E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Gangle, Brian
• Application Number:
  US15/403,823
• Publication Number:
  US 20170119827A1
• Time in Patent Office: 657 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 2035/11 Medicinal preparations comprising living procariotic cells
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/58 containing heterocyclic rings, e.g. danazol, stanozolol, pancuronium or digitogenin digitoxin A61K31/7048
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/715 Polysaccharides, i.e. having more than five saccharide radicals attached to each other by glycosidic linkages; Derivatives thereof, e.g. ethers, esters
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 35/74 Bacteria therapeutic use of a bacterial protein A61K38/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 38/1709 from mammals
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 38/1758 p53

Abstract

Compositions, systems and methods of improving the health of the microbiome of an individual'"'"'s skin relate to the provision of skin contacting formulations containing beneficial bacteria and other microbe components to foster the growth and maintenance of a healthy skin microbiome.

Claims

1. A method of reducing the likelihood of skin cancer in an individual human being, said method comprising:

administering a therapeutically effective amount of a bacterial formulation comprising Nitrosomonas eutropha adapted to produce p53 said bacterial formulation comprising a lotion, ointment or gel adapted to be rubbed onto a region of an individual'"'"'s skin.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the region of the skin is the scalp.

3. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising administering to the individual'"'"'s skin a prebiotic that comprises a nutrient source for the Nitrosomonas eutropha.

4. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising administering to the individual'"'"'s skin a prebiotic that comprises a nutrient source for the bacteria in the bacterial formulation that is assimilated by the bacteria.

5. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the bacterial formulation further includes Propionibacterium bacteria.

6. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising administering to the skin an extract derived from a helminth selected from the group consisting of Capillaria hepatica, Dicrocoelium dendriticum, Ascaris lumbricoides, Enterobius vermicularis, Trichuris trichiura, Ancylostoma duodenale, Necator americanus, Strongyloides stercoralis, Haemonchus contortus, and Trichinella spiralis.

7. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the bacterial formulation includes at least one arabinogalactan.

8. The method as set forth in claim 1, wherein the bacterial formulation includes L. johnsonii.