Nutritional Supplement Gelcap for Prenatal Vitamins
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current nutritional supplements for pregnant and breastfeeding women often lack essential vitamins and minerals such as twelve carbon chain fatty acids, iodine, and vitamin D, and fail to provide a comprehensive single composition that includes both water and fat-soluble compounds in adequate dosages, leading to compliance issues due to the need for multiple pills and difficulties in formulation.
Innovation Solution
A novel composition and kit providing a single, easy-to-administer formulation of multiple vitamins, minerals, and nutrients, including twelve carbon chain fatty acids, iodine, vitamin D, and other essential nutrients in a gelcap form, which combines various water and fat-soluble compounds in appropriate dosages, enhancing patient compliance and absorption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If multiple separate nutritional supplements are used to provide comprehensive vitamins and minerals, then the nutritional completeness is improved, but the ease of operation deteriorates due to the need to take multiple pills
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple water-soluble vitamins, fat-soluble vitamins, minerals, and functional compounds into a single dietary supplement composition. This merging of previously separate supplement categories into one unified formulation directly resolves the contradiction by maintaining comprehensive nutritional coverage while eliminating the need to take multiple separate pills, thereby improving ease of administration.
2Quantity of substance
If adequate dosages of fat-soluble compounds like vitamin D and twelve carbon chain fatty acids are included, then the nutritional completeness is improved, but the formulation difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a composite formulation approach by combining water-soluble and fat-soluble compounds in a single dietary supplement. This includes incorporating twelve carbon chain fatty acids (lauric acid, monolaurin) and vitamin D alongside traditional water-soluble vitamins and minerals. The composite structure allows for the simultaneous delivery of both fat-soluble and water-soluble nutrients in one formulation, maintaining nutritional completeness while managing formulation complexity through integrated design.
3Quantity of substance
If twelve carbon chain fatty acids and iodine are added to the supplement, then the nutritional completeness is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal dietary supplement formulation that simultaneously provides multiple functions: supporting prenatal and postnatal health, providing thyroid support through iodine, offering antimicrobial benefits through twelve carbon chain fatty acids, and delivering comprehensive vitamin and mineral supplementation. By integrating these diverse functional components into a single multi-functional supplement, the patent maintains nutritional completeness while managing formulation complexity through a unified product design that serves multiple health needs simultaneously.
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AI summary
The present invention relates to compositions, kits and methods for the administration of various vitamin, mineral and nutrient compositions, and in a specific embodiment, the compositions, kits and methods may utilize or include twelve carbon chain fatty acids and/or twelve carbon chain acylglycerols, vitamin D, iodine, vitamin B1, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, vitamin B2, vitamin B9, vitamin B3, vitamin E, vitamin A, vitamin C, iron, zinc, copper, magnesium, omega 3 fatty acids and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable carriers.