2021 Volume 5 Article ID: 2021-015
The purpose of this study is the proposal on the introduction of “Nutritional Pharmacy” to Model Core Curriculum for Pharmacy Education at the time of next revision. We propose this idea because the effects of drugs appear in total together with those of food and supplement ingredients which have similar physiological activity with the drugs. We will build a new subject named “Nutritional Pharmacy” which is made by combining and fusing “Nutrition” with “Pharmacodynamics” and “Pharmacokinetics”, which are characteristic subjects of pharmacy education in Japan. “Nutritional Pharmacy” consists of four main parts, which are, 1) Physiologically active compounds derived from foods and drinks and their function”, 2) Health food and supplements, 3) Prevention of Frail and Metabolic Syndrome by nutrition management, 4) Pharmacodynamic interaction among food and drink, health food and supplements, and medicines, 5) Pharmacokinetic interaction among food and drink, health food and supplements, and medicines, 6) Effects of intestinal flora on the function of food and drink, health food and supplements, 7) Chrono-nutritional pharmacy. Several assignments should be solved to introduce the subject and start the education on it, development of Nutritional Pharmacy will be helpful for their present activities in hospital pharmacy, home care, self-medication, and advanced pharmacy management. Furthermore, it will also be helpful for the development of education and research of pharmaceutical sciences in Japan. I hope “Nutritional Pharmacy” will be helpful for the pharmacists in Japan to take a responsibility in determining usage and dosage of drugs.
