Pregnancy Supplement Formulation Reducing Additive Load
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing nutritional supplements for pregnant and nursing women often contain unnecessary ingredients, and there is a need for formulations specifically tailored to provide essential nutrients without excess additives.
Innovation Solution
A nutritional supplement comprising a daily dose of carefully selected vitamins and minerals, including Vitamin A, Vitamin B1, Vitamin B2, Vitamin B12, Vitamin C, Vitamin D3, Vitamin E, lycopene, co-enzyme Q10, docosahexaenoic acid, docusate sodium, copper, folic acid, iron, magnesium, selenium, and zinc, formulated to address specific nutritional deficiencies during pregnancy and nursing, while avoiding unnecessary components.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If existing nutritional supplements contain a broad range of ingredients to supplement nutrition, then nutritional coverage is improved, but formulation complexity and unnecessary additives increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes unnecessary ingredients from conventional multi-ingredient supplements, retaining only those specifically beneficial for pregnant and nursing women. This selective extraction simplifies the formulation while maintaining essential nutritional coverage, directly addressing the contradiction between comprehensive nutrition and formulation complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The supplement formulation applies local quality by tailoring specific ingredient selections to the unique nutritional needs of pregnant and nursing women. Rather than using a generic broad-spectrum formulation, the patent customizes the ingredient profile to match the specific physiological requirements of this population, improving nutritional relevance while reducing unnecessary components.
2Reliability
If supplements include multiple vitamins and minerals to address dietary deficiencies, then nutritional completeness is improved, but the risk of excessive additives increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies parameter changes by precisely adjusting the concentration and composition of vitamins and minerals in the supplement formulation. By optimizing these parameters to match specific nutritional requirements, the patent achieves nutritional completeness while avoiding excessive amounts of additives, thus resolving the contradiction between reliability and harmful factors.
3Ease of operation
If general wellness supplements are used for pregnant women, then ease of obtaining supplements is improved, but specificity to pregnancy needs deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent achieves universality by creating a supplement formulation that is specifically designed for pregnant and nursing women while maintaining ease of acquisition. The formulation serves the specific needs of this population through targeted ingredient selection, yet remains practical and accessible, resolving the contradiction between ease of operation and specificity.
Data Source
AI summary
The disclosure relates to nutritional supplements to be administered to, or to be taken by, women desiring to become pregnant, and pregnant and nursing women, so that a woman (and any fetus) will be nutritionally supplemented before, during and after the gestation period. The nutritional supplements have a blend of folic acid, lycopene and co-enzyme QIO, optionally docosahexaenoic acid, and other vitamins and minerals, and a nutritionally acceptable carrier therefor, but are free or substantially free of other materials in nutritionally effective amounts. Specific nutritional supplements are described.