Abstract In May 2019, the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics
(ISAPP) convened a panel of nutritionists, physiologists and microbiologists to review the�…

Probiotics and prebiotics are microbiota-management tools for improving host health. They
target gastrointestinal effects via the gut, although direct application to other sites such as�…

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and PoliticS of nutrition Role of the gut microbiota in nutrition and health Ana M Valdes and�…

Empiric probiotics are commonly consumed by healthy individuals as means of life quality
improvement and disease prevention. However, evidence of probiotic gut mucosal�…

Advances in next-generation sequencing have enabled the widespread measurement of
microbiome composition across systems and over the course of microbiome assembly�…

Recent and ongoing developments in microbiome science are enabling new frontiers of
research for probiotics and prebiotics. Novel types, mechanisms, and applications currently�…

The intestinal tract of mammals is colonized by a large number of microorganisms including
trillions of bacteria that are referred to collectively as the gut microbiota. These indigenous�…

Throughout the past century, we have seen the emergence of a large number of
multifactorial diseases, including inflammatory, autoimmune, metabolic, neoplastic and�…

Probiotics are widely prescribed for prevention of antibiotics-associated dysbiosis and
related adverse effects. However, probiotic impact on post-antibiotic reconstitution of the gut�…

Conceptual scientific and medical advances have led to a recent realization that there may
be no single, one-size-fits-all diet and that differential human responses to dietary inputs�…