Chapter 2 – The role of nutrition in addiction recovery: What we know and what we don’t

This 2020 review discusses the role of alcohol-induced dysbiosis in the development of alcoholic liver disease (ALD) and its progression to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Méndez-Sánchez et al. (2020) explains that the increased metabolism of ethanol in the gut, as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, promotes gut dysfunction and bacterial overgrowth, and sets a leaky […]

Since evidence has been accumulating for gut microbiota’s role in eating disorders (EDs) and alcohol and substance use disorders, Temko and colleagues (2017) conducted this systematic review examining preclinical and clinical studies that evaluated the gut microbiota, EDs and alcohol and substance use disorders. The result was 12 original papers, some of which suggested that […]