Nutritional Regulation of Gut Microbial Composition and Metabolism: Impact on Obesity
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Obesity".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 3792
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions, necessitating the development of novel strategies for weight loss. It is becoming increasingly clear that there is a link between obesity and the gut microbiota. The specific bacterial populations that inhabit our gut can have substantial metabolic impact in relation to obesity through mechanisms involving the gut–brain, gut–liver, and gut–adipose axes. The nutrient composition of the diet can greatly impact gut microbial populations, selecting for particular taxa possessing specific enzymatic pathways that can differentially utilize various dietary substrates. Thus, dietary strategies that aim to perturb the gut microbiota could modulate obesity and its co-morbidities including diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
This collection will highlight how the gut microbiota can be regulated by dietary perturbations, and how these gut microbial changes can in turn modulate obesity and its co-morbidities. This Special Issue seeks original basic, preclinical, and translational research papers, and welcomes comprehensive review articles and short communications within the scope presented. Potential topics include but are not limited to:
- Dietary modulators of microbial composition;
- Microbial metabolites;
- Dietary regulation of the gut–brain axis;
- Gut microbiota and adipokines;
- Gut microbiota and weight loss;
- Dietary modulators of intestinal permeability;
- Gut microbial health and diabetes/CVD;
- Nutritional impacts on gut immunity/inflammation.
Dr. Laura J. den Hartigh
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Diabetes
- Cardiovascular disease
- Metabolic disease
- Microbiota
- Metabolites
- Weight loss
- Intestinal permeability
- Probiotics
- Prebiotics
- Immunity and inflammation
