Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases: Mechanistic Insights and Personalized Dietary Strategies
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2026 | Viewed by 1270
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human nutrition; personalized nutrition; postprandial response; food digestion; metabolomics; biomarkers; food science
Interests: inflammation; nutrigenomics; nutrigenetics; obesity; exercise; protein metabolism; fatty acid metabolism
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Dear Colleagues,
Metabolic diseases, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disorders, remain a major global health challenge. Nutrition plays a central role in both their prevention and management. However, inter-individual differences in digestion, absorption, and metabolic responses mean that dietary interventions are often not equally effective across populations. Advances in metabolomics and other high-throughput technologies now allow researchers to measure individual metabolomes and identify biomarkers that reflect personal responses to specific foods and nutrients. This opens the way for personalized nutrition strategies tailored to prevent or mitigate metabolic diseases.
Despite these opportunities, several challenges remain, including understanding the mechanistic basis of postprandial metabolism, accounting for variability due to digestion, genetics, or gut microbiota, selecting appropriate analytical platforms, ensuring reproducibility, and integrating multi-omics data for predictive modeling. Therefore, this special issue aims to bring together research addressing the role of nutrition in metabolic disease, with a particular focus on individualized metabolic responses and personalized dietary strategies. Contributions are welcome that explore food digestion, postprandial metabolic profiling, biomarker discovery, computational modeling, and integrative multi-omics approaches.
Dr. Silvia Tagliamonte
Prof. Dr. Marcelo Macedo Rogero
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- personalized nutrition
- metabolic diseases
- metabolomics
- food digestion
- postprandial metabolism
- biomarkers
- gut microbiome
- precision medicine
- systems biology
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