Effects of Diets and Nutrients on Immunity
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutritional Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 December 2025 | Viewed by 36
Special Issue Editors
2. Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
3. Nepean Hospital, Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Interests: immunity; nutrition; diet; metabolism; gut microbiota; computational biology; bioinformatics
2. Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
3. Nepean Hospital, Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Interests: immunity; diet; nutrition; metabolism; gut microbiota; food allergy
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Diets and nutrients play critical roles in shaping human health and diseases. The shift in dietary habits is considered a key driver of the global surge in non-communicable diseases, such as autoimmunity, cancers and metabolic disorders. These diseases are often underpinned by dysregulated immune responses. This Special Issue, titled “Effects of Diets and Nutrients on Immunity”, seeks to deepen our understanding of how dietary patterns and individual foods and nutrients regulate immunity, an intricate system that underlies both normal physiological functions and the development of diseases.
Diets and nutrients exert immunomodulatory effects via multiple mechanisms. These are mediated by either direct actions on immune cells, such as reprogramming their immunometabolic landscape, or via indirect impacts, including modifying the gut microbiome.
Nowadays, diet- and nutrient-based interventions are being rigorously evaluated in both pre-clinical and clinical studies for their potential to prevent, mitigate or treat a wide range of non-communicable diseases.
For this Special Issue, we invite research that examines the influences of specific diets, foods, dietary nutrients (macronutrients and micronutrients) and dietary supplements on the immune system and immune-related diseases, as well as their potential implications in disease interventions and/or prevention. This issue will provide novel insights valuable to researchers, medical practitioners and the general public, informing future research directions, clinical practice and public health policy conception.
Dr. Duan Ni
Dr. Jian Tan
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- diet
- nutrition
- nutrient
- food
- immunity
- immune regulation
- metabolism
- immunometabolism
- metabolic reprogramming
- gut microbiota
- non-communicable disease
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