Nutritional Targeting of the Microbiome as Potential Therapy for Malnutrition and Chronic Inflammation.
Nutrients
; 12(10)2020 Oct 03.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33022941
ABSTRACT
Homeostatic interactions with the microbiome are central for a healthy human physiology and nutrition is the main driving force shaping the microbiome. In the past decade, a wealth of preclinical studies mainly using gnotobiotic animal models demonstrated that malnutrition and chronic inflammation stress these homeostatic interactions and various microbial species and their metabolites or metabolic activities have been associated with disease. For example, the dysregulation of the bacterial metabolism of dietary tryptophan promotes an inflammatory environment and susceptibility to pathogenic infection. Clinical studies have now begun to evaluate the therapeutic potential of nutritional and probiotic interventions in malnutrition and chronic inflammation to ameliorate disease symptoms or even prevent pathogenesis. Here, we therefore summarize the recent progress in this field and propose to move further towards the nutritional targeting of the microbiome for malnutrition and chronic inflammation.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Malnutrition
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Nutrition Therapy
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Diet
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Microbiota
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Inflammation
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
Aspects:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limits:
Animals
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Nutrients
Year:
2020
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Germany