GutSelf: Interindividual Variability in the Processing of Dietary Compounds by the Human Gastrointestinal Tract.

ABSTRACT: Nutritional research is currently entering the field of personalized nutrition, to a large extent driven by major technological breakthroughs in analytical sciences and biocomputing. An efficient launching of the personalized approach depends on the ability of researchers to comprehensively monitor and characterize interindividual variability in the activity of the human gastrointestinal tract. This information is currently not available in such a form. This review therefore aims at identifying and discussing published data, providing evidence on interindividual variability in the processing of the major nutrients, i.e., protein, fat, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals, along the gastrointestinal tract, including oral processing, intestinal digestion, and absorption. Although interindiv

SUBMITTER: Walther B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6900003 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature