Wilson's disease: Food therapy out of trace elements

Wen-Jie Li; Huan-Ling Chen; Bin Wang; Lei Yao; Xiao-Ping Wang

doi:10.3389/fcell.2022.1091580

Wilson's disease: Food therapy out of trace elements

Front Cell Dev Biol. 2022 Dec 21:10:1091580. doi: 10.3389/fcell.2022.1091580. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Wen-Jie Li^{1

2}, Huan-Ling Chen¹, Bin Wang¹, Lei Yao¹, Xiao-Ping Wang^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurology, Jiading Branch of Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
² Ningbo First Hospital, Ningbo, China.
³ International Academician Station JiangQiao, Shanghai, China.

Abstract

Hepatolenticular degeneration, also known as Wilson's disease (WD), is an autosomal recessive inheritance nervous disorder of copper metabolism. The treatment of hepatolenticular degeneration emphasizes the combination of medical therapy and dietary therapy, such as a high zinc, low copper and sulfhydryl rich diet. Food therapy of WD based on trace elements is presented in this paper.

Keywords: Wilson’s disease; copper; food therapy; metal; protein; trace elements.

Publication types

Review