Perspective: leveraging the gut microbiota to predict personalized responses to dietary, prebiotic, and probiotic intervention

Gibbons, S. M., Gurry, T., Lampe, J. W., Chakrabarti, A., Dam, V., Everard, A., Goas, A., Gross, G., Kleerebezem, M., Lane, J., Maukonen, J., Penna, A. L. B., Pot, B., Valdes, A. M., Walton, G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5426-5635, Weiss, A., Zanzer, Y. C., Venlet, N. V. and Miani, M. (2022) Perspective: leveraging the gut microbiota to predict personalized responses to dietary, prebiotic, and probiotic intervention. Advances in Nutrition, 13 (5). pp. 1450-1461. ISSN 2156-5376 doi: 10.1093/advances/nmac075

Abstract/Summary

Humans often show variable responses to dietary, prebiotic, and probiotic interventions. Emerging evidence indicates that the gut microbiota is a key determinant for this population heterogeneity. Here, we provide an overview of some of the major computational and experimental tools being applied to critical questions of microbiota-mediated personalized nutrition and health. First, we discuss the latest advances in in silico modeling of the microbiota-nutrition-health axis, including the application of statistical, mechanistic, and hybrid artificial intelligence models. Second, we address high-throughput in vitro techniques for assessing inter-individual heterogeneity, from ex vivo batch culturing of stool and continuous culturing in anaerobic bioreactors, to more sophisticated organ-on-a-chip models that integrate both host and microbial compartments. Third, we explore in vivo approaches for better understanding personalized, microbiota-mediated responses to diet, prebiotics, and probiotics, from non-human animal models and human observational studies, to human feeding trials and crossover interventions. We highlight examples of existing, consumer-facing precision nutrition platforms that are currently leveraging the gut microbiota. Furthermore, we discuss how the integration of a broader set of the tools and techniques described in this piece can generate the data necessary to support a greater diversity of precision nutrition strategies. Finally, we present a vision of a precision nutrition and healthcare future, which leverages the gut microbiota to design effective, individual-specific interventions.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/106361
Identification Number/DOI	10.1093/advances/nmac075
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy > Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences > Food Microbial Sciences Research Group
Publisher	American Society for Nutrition
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