Role of the gut microbiota in nutrition and health

BMJ. 2018 Jun 13:361:k2179. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k2179.

Ana M Valdes^{1

2}, Jens Walter³, Eran Segal⁴, Tim D Spector⁵

¹ School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, City Hospital, Nottingham NG5 1PB, UK.
² NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham, UK.
³ Department of Agricultural, Food, and Nutritional Science and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
⁴ Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
⁵ Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK tim.spector@kcl.ac.uk.

Abstract

Ana M Valdes and colleagues discuss strategies for modulating the gut microbiota through diet and probiotics