Perspective: Leveraging the Gut Microbiota to Predict Personalized Responses to Dietary, Prebiotic, and Probiotic Interventions.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2022
Publication Title
Adv Nutr
Keywords
washington; isb; seattle
Abstract
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.
Clinical Institute
Digestive Health
Department
Institute for Systems Biology
Department
Gastroenterology
Department
Nutrition
Recommended Citation
Gibbons, Sean M; Gurry, Thomas; Lampe, Johanna W; Chakrabarti, Anirikh; Dam, Veerle; Everard, Amandine; Goas, Almudena; Gabriele, Gross; Kleerebez, Michiel; Lane, Jonathan; Maukonen, Johanna; Penna, Ana Lucia Barretto; Pot, Bruno; Valdes, Ana M; Walton, Gemma; Weiss, Adrienne; Zanzer, Yoghatama Cindya; Venlet, Naomi V; and Miani, Michela, "Perspective: Leveraging the Gut Microbiota to Predict Personalized Responses to Dietary, Prebiotic, and Probiotic Interventions." (2022). Articles, Abstracts, and Reports. 6266.
https://digitalcommons.providence.org/publications/6266
