Traditional fermented foods are of major importance with respect to the socio-economic
growth, food security, nutrition, and health of African consumers. In several African countries …

Climate change is not just jeopardizing the health of our planet, but it is increasingly
impacting our immune health. There is an expanding body of evidence that climate-related …

Antibiotics, the primary drugs used to cure bacterial diseases, are increasingly becoming
ineffective due to the emergence of multiple drug resistance (MDR) leading to recurrence of …

Over the past century, the incidence of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in high-income
countries has shown a sharp rise that then plateaued, and a similar trend has been …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) may be inherited, as recently shown with the identification of
single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs or “snips”) on a 250 kb DNA fragment that encodes …

Nature (biodiversity) loss is the loss or decline of the state of nature taking place in the wider
environment. We present a novel concept, nature deficiency, referring to nature loss in the …

Researchers are exploiting natural food sources to fight against various diseases.
Traditionally, numerous medicinal products have been derived from natural food …

The gut microbiome of neonates, infants, and toddlers (NITs) is very dynamic, and only
begins to stabilize towards the third year of life. Within this period, exposure to xenobiotics …

Abstract Purpose of Review The gut microbiota (GM) is directly related to health and
disease. In this context, disturbances resulting from excessive stress, unbalanced diet …

Background Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a relapsing nontransmural inflammatory disease that is
restricted to the colon and is characterized by flare-ups of bloody diarrhea. In this study, we …