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Functional Water, Functional Foods, and Energy Lab (Endowed Chair)
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A lab that explores the functions of water and food, aiming to prevent and improve diseases.
AboutAbout the lab
Uncovering the new functions hidden in water and food.
The Functional Water, Functional Foods, and Energy Lab takes on the challenge of discovering and elucidating new functions hidden in water and food.
Its aim is to contribute to establishing clinical food function science, which uses water and food to help prevent and improve diseases related to oxidative stress.
The lab conducts comprehensive research, from searching for functional water and functional foods that are expected to prevent or improve disease, to demonstrating their efficacy and elucidating their mechanisms of action.
It is an endowed chair funded by donations from companies, and it conducts research with the Cell Regulation Engineering field of the Faculty of Agriculture as a cooperating chair.
Key terms
- Functional water
- Water that, unlike ordinary drinking water, has functions beneficial to the body.
- Functional foods
- Foods that, in addition to nutrition and taste, have functions that contribute to health, such as preventing or improving disease and aging.
- Endowed chair
- A research chair established within a university with donations from companies.
- Electric potential therapy device
- A device that generates an electric field. It is approved as a home-use medical device for relieving conditions such as headaches and stiff shoulders.
NewsLab news
A paper on the calcification of osteoblast-like cells under extremely low frequency electric fields was published in IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation
A paper on the effects of Hita Tenryosui water on Japanese cedar pollen allergy symptoms in mice was published in Heliyon
ResearchResearch themes
The lab investigates the functions of water and food from various perspectives and takes on the challenge of elucidating them. It is also carrying out joint research projects with companies.
*Illustrative imageResearch on Functional Water Beneficial to the Body
The lab scientifically verifies functional water, which, unlike ordinary drinking water, has functions that are beneficial to the body. It examines the effects and mechanisms of subcritical water, electrolyzed water, dissolved hydrogen water, natural reduced water, and others.
*Illustrative imageFunctional Foods for Prevention and Improvement
The lab studies foods that are recognized as contributing to the prevention and improvement of disease and aging, and to health. It conducts analyses of their mechanisms of action.
*Illustrative imageEffects of Electric Fields and Electromagnetic Waves on the Body
Among forms of energy such as light, heat, and radio waves, the lab examines whether electromagnetic waves affect living organisms. It also investigates the efficacy and effects of electric potential therapy devices and attempts to elucidate their mechanisms.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Functional Water, Functional Foods, and Energy Lab consist of faculty, technical staff, and technical assistants.
- Associate ProfessorTakeki Tomikawa
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “H2O Molecules as Water Vapor” Lizard125 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Research on Functional Water Beneficial to the Body: “This is a cold water bottle.” Jiafei Slay Queen / CC0 (cropped)
- Functional Foods for Prevention and Improvement: “Testing Products Marketed as Dietary Supplements ( )” The U.S. Food and Drug Administration / Public domain (cropped)
- Effects of Electric Fields and Electromagnetic Waves on the Body: “Electromagnetic Wave (Light Wave) vs Mechanical Wave (01F8GF5HE8JPQG4GTVFG6EPC23)” ILLUSTRATION: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI) / Public domain (cropped)
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