Beneficial Effects of Phenolic Compounds on Gut Microbiota and Metabolic Syndrome
A special issue of Foods (ISSN 2304-8158). This special issue belongs to the section "Food Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 March 2022) | Viewed by 2598
Special Issue Editors
Interests: polyphenols; structure-activity relationship; polyphenols and metabolic syndrome; obesity interventions; polyphenols and gut microbiota
Interests: polyphenols; animal model; digestion
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Dear Colleagues,
Obesity and metabolic syndrome (MetS) represent one of the greatest health epidemics of the 21st century, with current medical strategies having limited efficacy, poor tolerance, and high cost. The gut microbiota is an important contributor to human health and has been implicated in the development of obesity and obesity-related diseases such as MetS. Dietary intervention has been proven to be a good strategy for improving chronic metabolic diseases, and polyphenols such as curcumin, anthocyanins, proanthocyanidin, and tea polyphenols have been found to prevent both obesity and improve MetS in humans and animal models. It has been proven that polyphenols exhibit their anti-obesity abilities partially by inhibiting the digestion and absorption of fat and glucose, by inhibiting adipogenesis, by altering microbiome populations, and so on. However, there are still many questions that need to be cleared. For example, what are the effects of microorganisms that colonize the human gut on the digestion and absorption of dietary polyphenols (PPs)? How do dietary polyphenols regulate gut microbiota? Additionally, work needs to be done on the mining and research of new dietary polyphenol resources. This Special Issue is therefore open to all contributions aimed at investigating the beneficial effects of phenolic compounds on gut microbiota and metabolic syndrome.
Prof. Dr. Chunmei Li
Dr. Kaikai Li
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- polyphenols
- metabolic syndrome
- obesity
- gut microbiota
- dietary intervention
- digestion and absorption
