Unveiling Roles of Beneficial Gut Bacteria and Optimal Diets for Health: A Comprehensive Review
How to cite: Kumar, S.; Mukherjee, R.; Chang, C.-M.; Gaur, P.; Raj, V. S.; Pandey, R. P. Unveiling Roles of Beneficial Gut Bacteria and Optimal Diets for Health: A Comprehensive Review. Preprints 2024, 2024100964. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.0964.v1 Kumar, S.; Mukherjee, R.; Chang, C.-M.; Gaur, P.; Raj, V. S.; Pandey, R. P. Unveiling Roles of Beneficial Gut Bacteria and Optimal Diets for Health: A Comprehensive Review. Preprints 2024, 2024100964. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202410.0964.v1
Abstract
The gut, often referred to as the "second brain," has significant contributions in the maintaining of the good bacteria contribute enormous role such as digestion, produce essential vitamins, support the immune system, and protect against harmful bacteria. The beneficial flora including Akkermansia muciniphila, Adlercreutzia equolifasciens, Barnesiella, Christensenella minuta, and Oxalobacter formigenes, along with their derived bioactive metabolites emerged as a key player in maintaining host metabolic and immune health. Dietary choices such as blending of prebiotic, fermented, symbiotic, anti-inflammatory foods, and secondary metabolites from a wide variety of plants and fruits promotes the diversity, composition, and stability of beneficial intestinal microbes. The colourful plant foods rich in phytochemicals bioactive compounds such as carotenoids, flavonoids, polyphenols, alkaloids, anthocyanins, and capsaicin offer a wide array of unique properties such as analgesics, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobials effect and promoting the abundance of beneficial gut bacteria and their bioactive metabolites confer numerous health-promoting effects. Here, we present knowledge about most beneficial gut bacteria and their derived metabolites in terms of their sources and health benefits. Finally, we discuss best foods that skew towards promoting healthy intestinal microbes.
Keywords
Healthy gut bacteria; Phytochemicals; Prebiotic foods & Probiotic foods
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