Gut Microbiota and Obesity: Nutritional Regulation, Metabolic Mechanisms

Dear Colleagues,

Based on the success of the first volume, we are launching the second edition of the Special Issue "Gut Microbiota and Obesity: Nutritional Regulation, Metabolic Mechanisms".

In recent decades, human gut microbiota has been shown to be a key agent in the prevention and development of numerous metabolic pathologies, including obesity. Although obesity is a complex and multifactorial pathology, the different environmental factors capable of influencing host metabolism and energy balance are considered key players, and gut microbiota can effect them. Gut microbiota exerts a miscellany of protective, structural, and metabolic effects on both intestinal and peripheral tissues, thus affecting body weight by modulating metabolism, appetite, as well as hormonal and immune systems.

However, the precise impact of gut microbiota and nutrients on gut metabolites and its subsequent influence on susceptibility to obesity remains uncertain.

In this Special Issue of Nutrients, we extend an invite to the scientific community to submit their latest advances in the knowledge of the complex interactions between gut microbiota and obesity. Manuscripts describing the effects of bioactive compounds as well as food ingredients and nutrients on the different microbial populations in the human gut are welcome. Furthermore, the effects of eubiosis-altering agents, as well as dysbiosis-correcting agents—such as prebiotics, probiotics, symbiotics, or postbiotics—are of great interest for this Special Issue.

Research articles and reviews focused on the following topics are of particular interest to this Special Issue:

• Food components (macro- and micronutrients) that can alter, both beneficially and detrimentally, human intestinal microbiota.
• Nutritional strategies, including the use of prebiotics, probiotics, postbiotics, and dietary bioactive compounds, in restoring gut microbiota balance.
• The role of gut microbiota and dietary modulation in maintaining overall human health and preventing obesity.
• Effects of gut microbiota metabolites on the development of obesity.

Dr. Jose M. Miranda
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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