Diet–Microbiota Interactions in Human Health and Disease
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2023) | Viewed by 6416
Special Issue Editors
Interests: gut microbiome in health and disease
Interests: gut microbiome in health and disease
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on diet–microbiota interactions in human health and disease.
Over the past decade, the gut microbiome has emerged as an important regulator of host immunity and energy metabolism, which is associated with the etiology of multiple human diseases, including metabolic, immunological, and neurological disorders. Diet is the key determinant of the gut microbiota configuration. Gut microbiota can be readily reprogrammed by various food components and potentially impact human physiology by participating in digestion, the absorption of nutrients, shaping of the mucosal immune response and the synthesis or modulation of a plethora of potentially bioactive compounds. Therefore, reshaping host–microbiota interactions through personalized nutrition to control/prevent disease control is an area of increasing interest. However, major limitations in ‘big data’ processing and analysis still limit our interpretive and translational capabilities concerning these person-specific host, microbiome, and diet interactions. More exploratory and confirmatory mechanistic studies should be conducted to unveil how different food components modulate the host microbiome and health, as well as to advance our understanding of their molecular underpinnings. This will pave the way toward precision editing of the microbiome by diet or nutrition strategies.
Therefore, we welcome research articles, case reports, reviews or short communications based on, but not limited to, the following themes:
- How food component, food additive, food supplement, and food processing approaches impact composition and function in gut microbiota;
- How the dietary–microbiome crosstalk affects disease development and progression;
- How gut microbiota metabolize food components and generate metabolites to impact human health;
- How bioactive dietary compounds treat or prevent disease by modulating gut microbiota.
Dr. Fen Zhang
Prof. Dr. Tao Zuo
Dr. Qinglong Wu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- gut microbiota
- diet
- metabolites
- personalized nutrition
- bioactive dietary compounds
- food additive
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