Microbiota for Healthy Ageing: The State of Art |Biomedgrid

Human microbiota is composed by trillions of bacteria which play a crucial role in host health maintenance and disease pathogenesis and whose composition is unique in each person. Environmental conditions and dietary habits can modulate the shape of microbiota that, in turn, may contribute to mediate the effect of dietary components on health status. The development of a stable and diverse gut microbiota is essential for various host physiologic functions such as immunoregulation, pathogen prevention, energy harvest, and metabolism.