Gut Microbiota

Building off the success of the first edition, Gut Microbiota: Interactive Effects on Nutrition and Health, Second Edition, details the complex relationship between diet, the gut microbiota, and health. This second edition expands its coverage of emerging practical applications in nutrition and medicine.
Covering topics such as the ecological concepts that apply to the gut microbiota and the effects of aging on the gut microbiome, among others, this book is sure to be a welcome resource to microbiome science trainees, food and nutrition researchers working in academia, and industry and healthcare professionals giving dietary recommendations to the general public.

“The purpose of this book is to create a comprehensive resource that addresses both scientific work and real-world experiences… It is a useful reference for healthcare professionals, specifically nutrition professionals, as well as graduate level nutrition students and upper-level science-based students…The ten chapters of this text do a respectable job encompassing a more thorough review of what we currently know about gut microbiota. The book starts with an overview, which is helpful for healthcare professionals who may not be as informed about the history of the gut microbiome. It then covers all the main topics of a useful reference: microbiota in health, across the lifespan as well as its environmental influences… The chapter on practical recommendations for health has an interesting figure that outlines general meal plan recommendations for gut health, focusing on the amounts of each "food group"to include per day.” —©Doody’s Review Service, 2024, Amy Hess Fischl, MS RDN LDN BC-ADM CDCES (University of Chicago Medical Center)