Nutritional Psychiatry: How Diet Affects Brain through Gut Microbiota

Nutritional Psychiatry: How Diet Affects Brain through Gut Microbiota

Nutritional sciences have been recognized as being of paramount importance for the prevention of non-communicable diseases. Among others, mental health disorders have been hypothesized to be influenced by dietary risk through a variety of molecular mechanisms. The improvements in the technology and...

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Main Author: Giuseppe Grosso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-04-01
Series:Nutrients
Subjects:
diet
dietary factors
lifestyle
gut microbiota
nutritional psychiatry
mental health
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/4/1282
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spelling doaj-85e4053cb9414745a7f7217a064d198f2021-04-14T23:00:21ZengMDPI AGNutrients2072-66432021-04-01131282128210.3390/nu13041282Nutritional Psychiatry: How Diet Affects Brain through Gut MicrobiotaGiuseppe Grosso0Department of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Catania, 95123 Catania, ItalyNutritional sciences have been recognized as being of paramount importance for the prevention of non-communicable diseases. Among others, mental health disorders have been hypothesized to be influenced by dietary risk through a variety of molecular mechanisms. The improvements in the technology and implementation of-omics sciences in terms of nutrition have created the possibility of studying the relation between diet, gut microbiota and mental health. The gut–brain–axis represents the core rationale setting the stage for a relatively new discipline of study defined as “nutritional psychiatry”. Research on this matter will help to better understand the relation between food and mood, sleep quality, cognition, and mental health in general.https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/4/1282dietdietary factorslifestylegut microbiotanutritional psychiatrymental health
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Nutrients
diet
dietary factors
lifestyle
gut microbiota
nutritional psychiatry
mental health
author_facet Giuseppe Grosso
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title Nutritional Psychiatry: How Diet Affects Brain through Gut Microbiota
title_short Nutritional Psychiatry: How Diet Affects Brain through Gut Microbiota
title_full Nutritional Psychiatry: How Diet Affects Brain through Gut Microbiota
title_fullStr Nutritional Psychiatry: How Diet Affects Brain through Gut Microbiota
title_full_unstemmed Nutritional Psychiatry: How Diet Affects Brain through Gut Microbiota
title_sort nutritional psychiatry: how diet affects brain through gut microbiota
publisher MDPI AG
series Nutrients
issn 2072-6643
publishDate 2021-04-01
description Nutritional sciences have been recognized as being of paramount importance for the prevention of non-communicable diseases. Among others, mental health disorders have been hypothesized to be influenced by dietary risk through a variety of molecular mechanisms. The improvements in the technology and implementation of-omics sciences in terms of nutrition have created the possibility of studying the relation between diet, gut microbiota and mental health. The gut–brain–axis represents the core rationale setting the stage for a relatively new discipline of study defined as “nutritional psychiatry”. Research on this matter will help to better understand the relation between food and mood, sleep quality, cognition, and mental health in general.
topic diet
dietary factors
lifestyle
gut microbiota
nutritional psychiatry
mental health
url https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/13/4/1282
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