The Roles of Diet, Gut Microbiome and Microbial Metabolome in Precision Nutrition

Dear Colleagues,

Trillions of microbes inhabit the human gastrointestinal tract. Metagenomics studies have demonstrated that there are 3.3 million unique genes in the human gut, 150 times more genes than in the human genome. Diet and nutrition play a substantial role and have impacts on human development, disease prevention, health status, and the human gut microbiome. Interactively, the gut microbiota also has a pivotal influence on host metabolic response to diet. Some general associations between dietary intakes and disease risk outcomes have been validated at the population level. However, inter-individual differences in postprandial metabolic responses to diet challenge the concept of “one-size-fits-all” dietary recommendations. Integrative gut microbiome and metabolomics research are critical to elucidate the interplay among diet, nutrition, microbiome, microbial metabolites, and their roles in human health, particularly in the growing area of precision nutrition.

The scope of this Special Issue “The Roles of Diet, Gut Microbiome and Microbial Metabolome in Precision Nutrition” is devoted to research papers and literature reviews describing the role of diet and nutrition in shaping the gut microbiome; the strategies of utilizing microbiome and metabolomics approaches in precision nutrition; the omics integration between microbiome and metabolomics data; microbiome epidemiological studies regarding the associations of diet and nutrition with the microbiome and its derived metabolites; and microbial signatures of both prebiotics and probiotics in relation to disease magnesium, diagnosis, prevention, and dietary management.

Dr. Renny S. Lan
Dr. Jiangjiang Zhu
Guest Editors

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• metabolomics
• gut microbiome
• precision nutrition
• diet
• integration
• integrative
• lipidomic
• person-alized nutrition
• probiotics
• prebiotics
• microbiota