João Batista Lancini

David Wicker Ph. D. Those are very good points and highlight the difficulty of taking results obtained in small scale research (where we can expect a proportion of birds - i.e. the negative control - to show the ill effects of the challenge) and attempting to learn what works in the field (where the loss of productivity would be unacceptable).

I agree that it is well understood that these vitamins are involved in immunity and gut integrity. The question remains, however: "how do we strategically manipulate dietary levels to achieve specific outcomes?". Deficiencies in these nutrients can impair various aspects of immune function, but once the requirement has been met, are there further responses in targeted immune effects that can be ...

Manuel Da Costa Dear Manuel, Is there any material, published thesis, trial results, text on proceedings, graphics or even presentation slides (PDF), referring to these experiments? Thanks in advance. Paulo Martins

At Anthem, we have been evaluating efficacy of Polyphenols ( Green Tea extract and Resveratrol ) and for Lysozyme in specific towards Necrotic Enteritis control. We have been witnessing very effective results. Polyphenols with string anti oxidant property are quite effective in controlling infections and building immunity. infect combination of Polyphenol with Lysozyme / Serratiopeptidase has b ...

Satish Sharma Thank you, Satish for your comment. Green tea, blueberry, grape, etc. polyphenols have lots of benefits for health. Polyphenols are very powerful molecules that were part of animal diets during millions of years and natural evolution forces were acting with the presence of these molecules. Unfortunately, in the last centuries, we were progressively removing them from our diets and pa ...