The Role of Low-FODMAP Diet in the Precision Medicine Era: Not Only IBS
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2024 | Viewed by 196
Special Issue Editor
Interests: disorders of gut-brain interaction; irritable bowel syndrome; FODMAPs; low-FODMAPs diet; anorectal manometry; chronic constipation; functional dyspepsia; gastroparesis
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Dear Colleagues,
The management of the gut–brain interaction disorders has improved significantly in recent decades in terms of clinical approach to diagnosis and therapy, moving in the direction of precision medicine. Surely, diet therapy plays an important role nowadays in the management of these patients.
Among the different diets proposed as therapeutic strategies, a diet low in fermentable oligo-, di-, mono-saccharides and polyols (LFD) has proven to be effective and safe in the management of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), so much so that it is included in most IBS guidelines.
Some studies, both in experimental and clinical settings, suggest the possible application of this dietary regimen to other “non-organic” disorders, such as functional dyspepsia, abdominal bloating, and functional heartburn, as well as to organic disturbances, such as inflammatory bowel diseases.
However, in order to achieve a tailored therapeutic management, many issues remain to be clarified and explored, and many needs are still unmet.
In the era of precision medicine, a careful personalization of LFD is strongly recommended in order to achieve appreciable results; “when”, “why”, “to whom”, and “how” should this dietary approach be applied?
The aims of this Special Issue will be to highlight recent advances, limits, problems and possible applications of LFD in the precision medicine era.
We welcome research papers, reviews, systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Dr. Massimo Bellini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fodmaps
- low-fodmap diet
- precision medicine
- disorders of gut–brain interaction
- irritable bowel syndrome
- functional dyspepsia
- diet therapy
