Towards microbiome-informed dietary recommendations for promoting metabolic and mental health: Opinion papers of the MyNewGut project

This introductory paper published in 2018 by the European project MyNewGut briefly summarizes the past research on the role of dietary patterns and food components in metabolic and mental health, and on several microbiome-mediating mechanisms. The authors state that since diet is a key modifiable environmental factor that modulates the gut microbiota and its metabolic actions, the two can act synergistically and provide resilience against disease. This hypothesis can be used to explain the associations between unhealthy dietary patterns, non-communicable diseases and intestinal dysbiosis. This paper discusses how the growing knowledge of the microbiome’s role in dietary health benefits could potentially provide the base from which sound dietary advice arise and start to promote healthy living. [NPID: microbiome, MGBA, gut-brain axis, gut microbiome, non-communicable diseases, dysbiosis]

Year: 2018

Reference: Sanz, Y., Romaní-Perez, M., Benítez-Páez, A., Portune, K. J., Brigidi, P., Rampelli, S., Dinan, T., Stanton, C., Delzenne, N., Blachier, F., Neyrinck, A. M., Beaumont, M., Olivares, M., Holzer, P., Günther, K., Wolters, M., Ahrens, W., Claus, S. P., Campoy, C., Murphy, R., … Kamp, J. V. (2018). Towards microbiome-informed dietary recommendations for promoting metabolic and mental health: Opinion papers of the MyNewGut project. Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland), 37(6 Pt A), 2191–2197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clnu.2018.07.007