The Nutrition for Gut Health Committee advances and communicates the scientific understanding of the impact of diet and dietary constituents on gut and host health.
(This Committee represents the evolution of the Gut Microbiome Committee.)
Strategic Focus Area
- Advance shared definitions and approaches to measurement of gut health and gut microbiome across stakeholders.
- Evaluate and advance the evidence for nutrition support of optimal gut and host health.
- Communicate the evidence that underpins how diets and dietary constituents impact measures of gut health and other systems influenced by gut physiology.
- Through the Live Dietary Microbes Subcommittee, gather, develop, and drive science- and evidence-based decisions on dietary recommendations for live microbes (learn more here). See news story about the promise of research on dietary microbes for health.
Current Work
This committee has various work underway:
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Abbott Nutrition
General Mills
Mondelēz International
National Dairy Council
ACADEMIC ADVISORS
Johanna Lampe, PhD, RD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Gary D. Wu, MD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
GOVERNMENT ADVISORS
Cindy Davis, PhD, USDA, ARS
Lauren VieBrock, PhD, US FDA
William Yan, PhD, Health Canada (Retired)
Projects Supported by the Committee:
Publications
All Publications
The Impact of Live Dietary Microbes on Health: A Scoping Review
Journal of Food Science, 2024
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Methods in Nutrition & Gut Microbiome Research: An American Society for Nutrition Satellite Session
Nutrients, 2023
The microbial cells in the human gut form an ecosystem that regulates and maintains human health. IAFNS has joined the American Society for Nutrition in an effort to harmonize approaches to studying the gut microbiome to better explore these connections. The scientific session summarized how improving the accuracy, precision and comparability of microbiome research will build understanding of the associations between the microbiome, health and disease prevention.
Mapping the Available Evidence on the Impact of Ingested Live Microbes on Health: A Scoping Review Protocol
BMJ Open, 2023
Some researchers think that the regular consumption of safe, live microbes confers health-promoting attributes, including the prevention of disease. To address this hypothesis, we propose a scoping review to assess the large amount of scientific literature that is now available on this topic.
Diet-Related and Gut-Derived Metabolites and Health Outcomes: A Scoping Review.
Metabolites, 2022
A scoping review to map evidence about the health impact of gut microbiota-derived metabolites is now available. The researchers found a need to conduct more prospective studies, including clinical trials. Researchers identified metabolites and conditions for which systematic reviews are warranted to characterize the direction and magnitude of metabolite-disease associations.
Read more about Diet-Related and Gut-Derived Metabolites and Health Outcomes: A Scoping Review.
Global Regulatory Frameworks for Fermented Foods: A Review
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
The review provides important perspective and context in relation to current global fermented food regulatory practices with possible directions and recommendations for future legislative efforts.
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Events
The Future of Personalized Nutrition: A Diet Personalized to Your Unique Metabolism and Microbiome
October 14, 2021
Virtual, Event
Join IAFNS on October 14, 2021 for this webinar with Dr. Sarah Berry of King’s College London in which she will explore the role that the micriobiome plays in shaping our unique responses to food relative to ‘what’ we eat, ‘who’ we are and ‘how’ we eat, from the ZOE PREDICT studies.
Convergence of Circadian Rhythms and Gut Microbes: Maintaining the Metronome of Life
September 7, 2021
Virtual, Event
Join the IAFNS Gut Microbiome Committee and the nutrition science community on September 7 for a dialogue with Dr. Vanessa Leone of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on her work elucidating the role of the gut microbiome in maintaining circadian rhythms and metabolism.
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IAFNS Gut Microbiome Webinar Series: Protect your Brain by Taking Care of Your Gut
July 22, 2021
Virtual, Event
Join the IAFNS community for a webinar with Dr. Hariom Yadav, Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Brain Repair and Director of the Microbiome Research Center at the University of South Florida, who will share research on the gut microbiome.
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Learnings and Challenges Developing the Largest Gut Microbiome Discovery Platform — From Bench to Commercial Application
June 30, 2021
Virtual, Event
Ten years ago, two scientists had a hypothesis that the body’s glycemic response to food was personalized and due to not just food, but the person eating the food. To prove their hypothesis they conducted the largest nutrition trials ever conducted and demonstrated that the gut microbiome has meaningful predictive value.
Fungi in the Gut: An Overlooked Domain of the Human Microbiome
June 24, 2021
Virtual, Event
Join the IAFNS Gut Microbiome Committee and the nutrition science community for a dialogue with Dr. Joe F. Pierre of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center on his work elucidating the role of the gut mycobiome.
Read more about Fungi in the Gut: An Overlooked Domain of the Human Microbiome