Methylsulfonylmethane in dietary products

• US 4,616,039 A
• Filed: 04/29/1985
• Issued: 10/07/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 08/30/1979
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Cardinal Associates, Inc. (Balchem Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Robert J. Herschler
• Inventors: Herschler, Robert J.
• Primary Examiner(s): FRIEDMAN, STANLEY
• Application Number:
  US06/727,989
• Time in Patent Office: 526 Days
• Field of Search: 514/711
• US Class Current: 514/711
• CPC Class Codes: A23C 9/152 containing additives fermented milk preparations containing additives A23C9/13
• CPC Class Codes: A23K 20/105 Aliphatic or alicyclic compounds
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 27/2022 containing sulfur
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 29/055 containing sulfur as heteroatom
• CPC Class Codes: A23L 33/10 using additives addition of substantially indigestible substances A23L33/21
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2002/00 Food compositions, function of food ingredients or processes for food or foodstuffs
• CPC Class Codes: A23V 2250/15 Inorganic Compounds
• CPC Class Codes: A24B 15/32 by acyclic compounds
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 2300/00 Mixtures or combinations of active ingredients, wherein at least one active ingredient is fully defined in groups A61K31/00 - A61K41/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/10 Sulfides; Sulfoxides; Sulfones
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/17 having the group >N—C(O)—N< or >N—C(S)—N<, e.g. urea, thiourea, carmustine isoureas, isothioureas A61K31/155; sulfonylureas A61K31/64
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/60 Salicylic acid; Derivatives thereof
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 31/7004 Monosaccharides having only carbon, hydrogen and oxygen atoms
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 33/14 Alkali metal chlorides; Alkaline earth metal chlorides
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 8/46 containing sulfur A61K8/44 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 9/1688 resulting in pure drug agglomerate optionally containing up to 5% of excipient
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 1/00 Drugs for disorders of the alimentary tract or the digestive system
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 11/00 Drugs for disorders of the respiratory system
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 29/00 Non-central analgesic, antipyretic or antiinflammatory agents, e.g. antirheumatic agents; Non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs [NSAID]
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 3/00 Drugs for disorders of the metabolism of the blood or the extracellular fluid A61P7/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 33/00 : Antiparasitic agents
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 37/08 : Antiallergic agents antiasthmatic agents A61P11/06; ophthalmic antiallergics A61P27/14
• CPC Class Codes: A61P 9/12 : Antihypertensives
• CPC Class Codes: A61Q 11/00 : Preparations for care of the teeth, of the oral cavity or of dentures; Dentifrices, e.g. toothpastes; Mouth rinses
• CPC Class Codes: A61Q 19/00 : Preparations for care of the skin
• CPC Class Codes: A61Q 19/004 : Aftersun preparations

Abstract

Methylsulfonylmethane is effective in maintaining good health and in improving poor health of animals, including human beings and is an assimilable source of dietetic sulfur.

Claims

1. A method of providing a source of metabolizable sulfur to an animal whose diet comprises sufficient processed food to render the animal'"'"'s diet deficient in metabolizable sulfur, which comprises physically admixing with one or more of the foodstuffs ingested daily by the animal, prior to the ingestion thereof by the animal, an amount of methylsulfonylmethane equivalent to at least 0.01 mg/kg of body weight per day.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the animal is a vertebrate.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the animal is a human being.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the animal is a herbivore.

5. A method of improving the overall state of health and resistance to disease of an animal maintained on a diet which supplies naturally occurring methylsulfonylmethane in amounts insufficient to maintain body levels thereof in the animal of at least 1 ppm, which comprises administering orally thereto and thereby adding to the diet of the animal an amount of methylsulfonylmethane effective to maintain these body levels at at least 1 ppm.

6. A method according to claim 5, wherein the animal is a human being.

7. A method according to claim 5, wherein the methylsulfonylmethane is admixed with at least one of the foodstuffs ingested by the animal.

8. A method according to claim 5, wherein the amounts of methylsulfonylmethane supplied is effective to raise the body levels of methylsulfonylmethane in the animal to at least 10 ppm.

9. A method according to claim 8, wherein the animal is a herbivore.

10. A method according to claim 8, wherein the animal is a human being.

11. A method according to claim 5 wherein the animal is a herbivore.