Cultivating Healthy Growth and Nutrition through the Gut Microbiota

Cultivating Healthy Growth and Nutrition through the Gut Microbiota

Microbiota assembly is perturbed in children with undernutrition, resulting in persistent microbiota immaturity that is not rescued by current nutritional interventions. Evidence is accumulating that this immaturity is causally related to the pathogenesis of undernutrition and its lingering sequelae. Preclinical models in which human gut communities are replicated in gnotobiotic mice have provi...

Gut microbiota and personalized nutrition.

The gut microbiota has recently attracted unprecedented attention from the biomedical community for the mounting evidence supporting its central role in human health and disease [1] . The gut microbiota consists of the trillions of bacterial microorganisms, spanning over 500 species, that inhabit our gastrointestinal tracts. We now know that these bacteria are not simply commensal organisms in ...

Gut Microbiota and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Psychobiotics and Brain-Gut Microbiota Axis

Fermented foods containing probiotic bacteria have been used for many years to improve the health or treatment of some diseases. Nowadays, the Therapeutic properties of probiotics are becoming more and more obvious to everyone, insofar as in recent years, more attention has been paid to the potential relation between gut microbiota and mental health. Several studies have shown that intestinal m...

Interaction between obesity and the gut microbiota: relevance in nutrition.

This review examines mechanisms by which the bacteria present in the gut interact with nutrients and host biology to affect the risk of obesity and associated disorders, including diabetes, inflammation, and liver diseases. The bacterial metabolism of nutrients in the gut is able to drive the release of bioactive compounds (including short-chain fatty acids or lipid metabolites), which interact...