Towards microbiome-informed dietary recommendations for promoting metabolic and mental health: Opinion papers of the MyNewGut project

The gut microbiota coexists in partnership with the human host through adaptations to environmental and physiological changes that help maintain dynamic homeostatic healthy states. Break-down of this delicate balance under sustained exposure to stressors (e.g. unhealthy diets) can, however, contribute to the onset of disease. Diet is a key modifiable environmental factor that modulates the gut microbiota and its metabolic capacities that, in turn, could impact human physiology. On this basis, the diet and the gut microbiota could act as synergistic forces that provide resilience against disease or that speed the progress from health to disease states.

Source: Clinical Nutrition - July 9, 2018 Category: Nutrition Authors: Yolanda Sanz, Marina Roman í-Perez, Alfonso Benítez-Páez, Kevin J. Portune, Patrizia Brigidi, Simone Rampelli, Ted Dinan, Catherine Stanton, Nathalie Delzenne, Francois Blachier, Audrey M. Neyrinck, Martin Beaumont, Marta Olivares, Peter Holzer, Kathri Tags: Opinion paper Source Type: research