Associations Between Lifestyle, Nutrition Intake and Metabolic Health
A Special Issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989) belonging to the section "Endocrinology and Clinical Metabolic Research".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2027 | Viewed by 24
Editors
Interests: nutrition; obesity; physical education; physical fitness; physical activity and health; eating behaviour
Interests: lifestyle medicine; nutrition; childhood cancer; physical activity and health
Interests: exercise physiology; body composition; athletic performance
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Dear Colleagues,
The global prevalence of metabolic disorders (including obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) continues to rise at an alarming rate. These conditions are profoundly shaped by modifiable lifestyle factors, yet the complex biological pathways through which diet, physical activity, sleep, and other behavioral exposures influence metabolic health remain incompletely understood. Recent advances in metabolomics and nutritional epidemiology now offer unprecedented opportunities to interrogate these relationships at the molecular level, moving beyond traditional self-reported dietary assessments toward objective biomarkers of nutritional status and metabolic function.
This Special Issue, titled "Associations Between Lifestyle, Nutrition Intake and Metabolic Health", is dedicated to elucidating these dynamic relationships. The scope encompasses a broad spectrum of original research, reviews, and methodological papers investigating how dietary patterns, physical activity, sleep, and meal timing influence systemic metabolism and metabolic phenotypes. While metabolomic profiling remains a central pillar of this collection, we warmly welcome studies employing diverse approaches, including—but not limited to—traditional nutritional biomarkers, clinical biochemistry, longitudinal epidemiological analyses, and integrative multi-omics strategies that robustly interrogate these relationships.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Metabolomic signatures of dietary patterns and specific food components;
- Lifestyle interventions and their metabolic effects;
- Metabolomics in nutritional epidemiology and population-based studies;
- Biomarkers of metabolic health and disease risk;
- Gene–diet and gene–lifestyle interactions;
- The role of the gut microbiome in mediating lifestyle–metabolism relationships.
We cordially invite researchers to contribute their latest findings to this collection, which aims to advance our understanding of how lifestyle and nutrition can be leveraged to promote metabolic health across the lifespan.
Dr. José Francisco López-Gil
Dr. Camila Miño
Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Yánez-Sepúlveda
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lifestyle factors
- nutritional intake
- dietary patterns
- metabolic health
- metabolic biomarkers
- nutritional epidemiology
- multi-omics
- gene–diet interactions
- precision nutrition
- cardiometabolic risk
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