The complexities of the diet-microbiome relationship: advances and perspectives
Abstract Personalised dietary modulation of the gut microbiota may be key to disease management. Current investigations provide a broad understanding of the impact of diet on the composition and activity of the gut microbiota, yet detailed knowledge in applying diet as an actionable tool remains lim...
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| author | Emily R. Leeming Panayiotis Louca Rachel Gibson Cristina Menni Tim D. Spector Caroline I. Le Roy |
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| description | Abstract Personalised dietary modulation of the gut microbiota may be key to disease management. Current investigations provide a broad understanding of the impact of diet on the composition and activity of the gut microbiota, yet detailed knowledge in applying diet as an actionable tool remains limited. Further to the relative novelty of the field, approaches are yet to be standardised and extremely heterogeneous research outcomes have ensued. This may be related to confounders associated with complexities in capturing an accurate representation of both diet and the gut microbiota. This review discusses the intricacies and current methodologies of diet-microbial relations, the implications and limitations of these investigative approaches, and future considerations that may assist in accelerating applications. New investigations should consider improved collection of dietary data, further characterisation of mechanistic interactions, and an increased focus on -omic technologies such as metabolomics to describe the bacterial and metabolic activity of food degradation, together with its crosstalk with the host. Furthermore, clinical evidence with health outcomes is required before therapeutic dietary strategies for microbial amelioration can be made. The potential to reach detailed understanding of diet-microbiota relations may depend on re-evaluation, progression, and unification of research methodologies, which consider the complexities of these interactions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-572aca2db88b4e829719e20c29b2c1052022-12-21T20:34:29ZengBMCGenome Medicine1756-994X2021-01-0113111410.1186/s13073-020-00813-7The complexities of the diet-microbiome relationship: advances and perspectivesEmily R. Leeming0Panayiotis Louca1Rachel Gibson2Cristina Menni3Tim D. Spector4Caroline I. Le Roy5The Department of Twin Research, St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College LondonThe Department of Twin Research, St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College LondonDepartment of Nutritional Sciences, King’s College LondonThe Department of Twin Research, St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College LondonThe Department of Twin Research, St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College LondonThe Department of Twin Research, St Thomas’ Hospital, King’s College LondonAbstract Personalised dietary modulation of the gut microbiota may be key to disease management. Current investigations provide a broad understanding of the impact of diet on the composition and activity of the gut microbiota, yet detailed knowledge in applying diet as an actionable tool remains limited. Further to the relative novelty of the field, approaches are yet to be standardised and extremely heterogeneous research outcomes have ensued. This may be related to confounders associated with complexities in capturing an accurate representation of both diet and the gut microbiota. This review discusses the intricacies and current methodologies of diet-microbial relations, the implications and limitations of these investigative approaches, and future considerations that may assist in accelerating applications. New investigations should consider improved collection of dietary data, further characterisation of mechanistic interactions, and an increased focus on -omic technologies such as metabolomics to describe the bacterial and metabolic activity of food degradation, together with its crosstalk with the host. Furthermore, clinical evidence with health outcomes is required before therapeutic dietary strategies for microbial amelioration can be made. The potential to reach detailed understanding of diet-microbiota relations may depend on re-evaluation, progression, and unification of research methodologies, which consider the complexities of these interactions.https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-020-00813-7Personalised nutritionGut microbiomeDietResearch methods |
| spellingShingle | Emily R. Leeming Panayiotis Louca Rachel Gibson Cristina Menni Tim D. Spector Caroline I. Le Roy The complexities of the diet-microbiome relationship: advances and perspectives Genome Medicine Personalised nutrition Gut microbiome Diet Research methods |
| title | The complexities of the diet-microbiome relationship: advances and perspectives |
| title_full | The complexities of the diet-microbiome relationship: advances and perspectives |
| title_fullStr | The complexities of the diet-microbiome relationship: advances and perspectives |
| title_full_unstemmed | The complexities of the diet-microbiome relationship: advances and perspectives |
| title_short | The complexities of the diet-microbiome relationship: advances and perspectives |
| title_sort | complexities of the diet microbiome relationship advances and perspectives |
| topic | Personalised nutrition Gut microbiome Diet Research methods |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13073-020-00813-7 |
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