Microbial medicine: prebiotic and probiotic functional foods to target obesity and metabolic syndrome

M Green, K Arora, S Prakash - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Obesity has become a global epidemic and a public health crisis in the Western World,
experiencing a threefold increase in prevalence since 1975. High-caloric diets and …

Gut microbiota and its metabolites: Bridge of dietary nutrients and obesity-related diseases

M Zhou, LJ Johnston, C Wu, X Ma - Critical reviews in food science …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
While the incidence of obesity keeps increasing in both adults and children worldwide,
obesity and its complications remain major threatens to human health. Over the past …

Gut microbiome modulation based on probiotic application for anti-obesity: A review on efficacy and validation

K Barathikannan, R Chelliah, M Rubab, EBM Daliri… - Microorganisms, 2019 - mdpi.com
The growing prevalence of obesity has become an important problem worldwide as obesity
has several health risks. Notably, factors such as excessive food consumption, a sedentary …

Gut microbiome approaches to treat obesity in humans

F Bianchi, ALRF Duque, SMI Saad, K Sivieri - Applied microbiology and …, 2019 - Springer
The rising worldwide prevalence of obesity has become a major concern having many
implications for the public health and the economy. It is well known that many factors such as …

The role of probiotics and prebiotics in the prevention and treatment of obesity

T Cerdó, JA García-Santos, M G. Bermúdez, C Campoy - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Obesity is a global pandemic complex to treat due to its multifactorial pathogenesis—an
unhealthy lifestyle, neuronal and hormonal mechanisms, and genetic and epigenetic factors …

Probiotics: how effective are they in the fight against obesity?

K Mazloom, I Siddiqi, M Covasa - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Obesity has been associated with structural and functional changes in the gut microbiota.
The abundance in, and diversity of, certain bacteria may favor energy harvest and metabolic …

Probiotics: interaction with gut microbiome and antiobesity potential

T Arora, S Singh, RK Sharma - Nutrition, 2013 - Elsevier
Obesity is a metabolic disorder afflicting people globally. There has been a pivotal
advancement in the understanding of the intestinal microbiota composition and its …

Gut microbiota modulation and its relationship with obesity using prebiotic fibers and probiotics: a review

DK Dahiya, Renuka, M Puniya, UK Shandilya… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In the present world scenario, obesity has almost attained the level of a pandemic and is
progressing at a rapid rate. This disease is the mother of all other metabolic disorders, which …

Obesity and microbiota: an example of an intricate relationship

S Duranti, C Ferrario, D Van Sinderen, M Ventura… - Genes & nutrition, 2017 - Springer
It is widely accepted that metabolic disorders, such as obesity, are closely linked to lifestyle
and diet. Recently, the central role played by the intestinal microbiota in human metabolism …

Interplay between obesity and associated metabolic disorders: new insights into the gut microbiota

PD Cani, NM Delzenne - Current opinion in pharmacology, 2009 - Elsevier
Obesity and associated metabolic disorders are worldwide epidemic. The literature provides
new evidence that gut microbiota dysbiosis (at the phyla, genus, or species level) affects …