diet

High-fat diets may impair key gut immune cells, weakening intestinal defenses

Reducing dietary fat or controlling gut inflammation could help preserve immune cells and protect gut immunity, offering a strategy to prevent diet-related gut diseases.

Leaky gut may let some bacteria travel to the brain, mouse study shows

Maintaining a healthy gut barrier and microbiota, through diet or other interventions, could help prevent bacteria from reaching the brain, helping maintain neurological health.

Gut microbiota, immunity and diet: twenty years of research and the future of personalized nutrition

Francisco Guarner, from Centro Médico Teknon in Barcelona (Spain), discussed the most recent researches in the field of microbiome and nutrition.

Gut microbes turn low-protein diets into fat-burning beige fat, mice study shows

The findings suggest that targeting specific gut microbes or their metabolites could boost fat-burning and metabolism in response to specific diets.

Dietary fiber helps probiotics settle in the gut

Diet shapes probiotic colonization, offering strategies to improve colonization, modulate the microbiota, and control harmful microbes.

Mapping the microbiome: ranking gut species linked to diet and cardiometabolic health

Francesco Asnicar, CIBIO - University of Trento (Italy), discusses new large-scale research on the human microbiome, based on the analysis of more than 35,000 individuals from the UK and the…

Dietary fiber and gastric cancer: pooled international data support a dose-dependent protective effect

Giulia Collattuzzo, University of Bologna, presents study findings showing an independent protective association between dietary fiber and gastric cancer risk, with consistent effects across sex, tumor location, and histological subtype.

Targeting the gut microbiota in IBD: from diet and probiotics to fecal microbiota transplantation

Giovanni Marasco, University of Bologna, discusses the growing evidence that links gut microbiota dysbiosis to the pathophysiology, clinical prognosis, disease progression, and treatment response of patients with IBD.

The food matrix: understanding how foods influence health beyond single nutrients

Ivana Gandolfi, International Diary Federation, describes the emerging concept of the food matrix.

Gut microbiome, diet and cardiometabolic health: why large-scale data matter

Francesco Asnicar, University of Trento (Italy), explores the role of the human gut microbiome in cardiometabolic health and diet, focusing on microbial species linked to metabolic and dietary markers.

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