A major driver for this expenditure is wishing to prevent and/or treat metabolic diseases (189) Based on the survey The Italian food supplement supply chain, 2019-2020 by the FederSalus Research Centre (that is the national agency of the Italian producers and distributors of food supplements), in late 2019, the food supplement market in Italy reached a value of approximately euro 3.6 billion (190), corresponding to 27% of the euro 13.2 billion value of the European market, thus preceding Germany and France (18 and 8%, respectively)
IIEF-EF score increased in group A from 15 7 to 18.1 9.2, in group B from 14.8 6.9 to 20.8 7.3, and in group C from 14.9 7.1 to 22 7.5
This work was also supported by Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing, China (cstc2020jcyj-msxmX0714 to H.T.), Chongqing Talents Plan for Young Talents (CQYC201905071 to S.P.), the strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (XDB39000000 to B.Z.), Youth Thousand Talents Plan (H.Z.), Shanghai Pujiang Program (16PJ1407400), and the National Key R&D Program of China (2019YFA0802804)
Future research can focus on exploring the optimal ratios and combination strategies of different functional factors
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