We Are What We Eat: The Role of Food Intake on Human Metabolome

Dear Colleagues,

Nutrients are pathways by which food intake shapes metabolism and body composition. Both nutrients and their metabolites constitute key biological and functional outputs linking metabolic pathways with health and disease. Advances in research methods and techniques, such as metabolomics, have made it possible to characterize the human and animal metabolome and how it changes in different food and nutritional contexts or following dietary interventions. This can strengthen research and nutritional science by: a) defining and validating biomarkers of food intake; and b) objectively interpreting how food intake and nutrition impact health and disease. 

This Special Issue aims to present outstanding research on how diet/ food intake relates to and impacts circulating and tissue-specific metabolites, characterizing metabolic responses to nutrition in the context of health and disease. It will cover: a) studies analyzing metabolic changes following nutritional/dietary interventions in humans and animal models; b) studies focusing on the identification and validation of biomarkers for food intake; and c) studies investigating shifts in metabolism and quantification of certain molecules under specific nutritional contexts. Finally, we highly encourage authors to submit systematic reviews and meta-analysis focusing on the association between the nutrition/dietary intake and circulating and tissue-specific metabolites as well as the impact of specific nutrients/nutraceutical supplements/dietary patterns/functional foods on changes in related metabolites.

Dr. Marta P. Silvestre
Dr. Louise Lu
Dr. Diana Teixeira
Guest Editors

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