Human gut microbiota, nutrition and health

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 ...

Chocolate, gut microbiota, and human health

With the advances in molecular biology techniques, the association between changes in the gut microbiota and human diseases or disorders is becoming more evident. These health issues include aging (Rehman, 2012), oxidative stress (Qiao et al., 2012), blood pressure and atherosclerosis (Queipo-Ortuño, 2012), diabetes (Wen et al., 2008; Larsen et al., 2010); cancer (Mai et al., 2007), and differe...

Gut Microbiota, Probiotics, and Human Health

The review is devoted to the problems of microbiota and the ways of it correction employing beneficial life bacteria- probiotics. It covers the issues related to the functioning of human microbiota and its importance for the health, individual variability of microbial content, functioning of the probiotics in the human organism and the history of probiotic studies with particular focus on the m...

Gut Microbiota and Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Linking the gut microbiota to human health.

The human gut is the natural environment for a diverse and dynamic microbial ecosystem, whose structure and functions are presently a major target of research in biomedicine. Experimental studies in germ-free animals performed some decades ago revealed the importance of these microbial communities for normal growth and development and for the maintenance of health in adult life. The host provid...