Metabolomics and Microbiomes as Potential Tools to Evaluate the Effects of the Mediterranean Diet.

ABSTRACT: The approach to studying diet⁻health relationships has progressively shifted from individual dietary components to overall dietary patterns that affect the interaction and balance of low-molecular-weight metabolites (metabolome) and host-enteric mic{Citation}robial ecology (microbiome). Even though the Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) has been recognized as a powerful strategy to improve health, the accurate assessment of exposure to the MedDiet has been a major challenge in epidemiological and clinical studies. Interestingly, while the effects of individual dietary components on the metabolome have been described, studies investigating metabolomic profiles in response to overall dietary patterns (including the MedDiet), although limited, have been gaining attention. Similarly, the beneficial

SUBMITTER: Jin Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6356665 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature