Nutritional and Metabolic Regulation for One Health Across the Lifespan
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nutrition; metabolism; trace elements; diabetes; aging
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
Nutrition and metabolism are fundamental to human health throughout the lifespan and play a pivotal role in the interconnected wellbeing of humans, animals, and the environment under the One Health framework. The regulation of nutritional and metabolic processes influences growth, immune resilience, and disease susceptibility, while imbalances contribute to chronic, infectious, and degenerative conditions. Integrating health promotion with ecological sustainability, the One Health approach encourages a systems-level understanding of how nutrition and metabolism shape health and disease across individual and population levels.
This Special Issue aims to advance interdisciplinary research on nutritional and metabolic regulation for One Health across the lifespan. We welcome submissions on research across various diseases, including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, fatty liver, cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, autoimmune diseases, infectious diseases, and other conditions related to nutrition and metabolism. The topics covered include, but are not limited to, studies on nutritional interventions for disease prevention and management, mechanisms by which nutrients and metabolites regulate pathological processes, animal models for nutrition and disease, methodologies for characterizing metabolic status in disease, and causal inference between nutritional or metabolic factors and diseases.
In addition, we particularly encourage research that employs multi-omics analyses, gut microbiome studies, artificial intelligence, and multi-level and multidimensional analytical frameworks to reveal how nutritional and metabolic factors interact across biological and environmental contexts. Work exploring precision nutrition strategies tailored to different life stages, or integrating causal inference and systems biology, is also highly welcome. By combining mechanistic insights with innovative methodologies, this Special Issue seeks to inform evidence-based nutrition, promote disease prevention, and advance sustainable health within the One Health paradigm.
Dr. Xinhui Wang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nutrition
- metabolism
- one health
- lifespan
- artificial intelligence
- metabolite
- microbiome
- precision nutrition
- causal inference
- multi-omics
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