Personalized Supplement Recommendation via Antioxidant Indicator Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current dietary supplement administration is unspecific and can lead to excessive or inappropriate intake, as it does not account for individual organism needs, potentially causing oxidative stress and related health issues.

Innovation Solution

A method and device that assesses the efficiency, quality, and localization of the body's antioxidative systems using multiple indicator groups to tailor micro nutrient supplementation, ensuring maximum utilization of the body's detoxification capabilities and avoiding harmful dosages.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If dietary supplements are administered unspecifically to maintain health, then the assumption is that the organism lacks certain substances, but this leads to the risk of taking too many or wrong supplements that may damage the organism

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesupplement safetyVSAvoidindividual supplementation needs
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The invention segments the supplement recommendation process into three distinct indicator groups: (1) detoxification system state, (2) detoxification system quality, and (3) detoxification system failure localization. This segmentation allows for precise, individualized supplement recommendations based on specific physiological conditions rather than general unspecific supplementation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The invention applies local quality by tailoring supplement recommendations to specific individual conditions. Each indicator group provides localized information about the organism's needs, allowing supplements to be prescribed precisely where and how they are needed, rather than applying a one-size-fits-all approach.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Measurement precision

If comprehensive indicator groups are used to determine oxidative stress, then individual supplement recommendations can be created, but this increases the complexity of the assessment process

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoxidative stress assessmentVSAvoidassessment system
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The complex assessment is segmented into three manageable indicator groups that can be evaluated systematically. This segmentation reduces the perceived complexity by organizing numerous individual indicators into structured categories, making the comprehensive assessment more manageable and implementable.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The invention introduces a database as an intermediary that stores reference ranges and evaluation criteria for all indicator groups. This intermediary component manages the complexity by providing a centralized repository for comparison data, allowing the assessment system to handle comprehensive measurements without becoming unmanageably complex.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Loss of information

If multiple indicator groups are established to assess detoxification systems, then comprehensive individual conclusions on oxidative stress can be provided, but this requires extensive functional tests and data processing

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveoxidative stress informationVSAvoidassessment time
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The invention performs preliminary actions by establishing reference ranges and evaluation criteria in advance within the database. This preliminary preparation allows for rapid comparison and interpretation of test results, reducing the time needed for data processing while ensuring comprehensive information is captured and analyzed systematically.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS7890344B2Method for creating an individual supplement recommendation
Publication Date: 2011.02.15 WHELI INTER AG
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AI summary

Disclosed herein is a method for creating an individual supplement recommendation for the targeted administration of certain micro nutrients in the human and animal organism determines the efficiency of the body's own antioxidative system is established by determining the effectiveness of at least one of three different body-own indicator groups, whereby, after the comparison of the actual value of the found indicators with the target value, it is determined whether or not the actual value still lies within a tolerable range of the target value and, in the case of the identification of an indicator that requires treatment, a database generates a corresponding supplement recommendation for the improvement of the indicator value via the allocation paths determined by the database.