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Comparison of Microbial Growth Between Commercial Formula and Blenderized Food for Tube Feeding

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Plant-Based Diet Index and Metabolic Risk in Men: Exploring the Role of the Gut Microbiome

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From the Table to the Tumor: The Role of Mediterranean and Western Dietary Patterns in Shifting Microbial-Mediated Signaling to Impact Breast Cancer Risk

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Associations between Diet, the Gut Microbiome, and Short-Chain Fatty Acid Production among Older Caribbean Latino Adults

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Precision Medicine in Lifestyle Medicine: The Way of the Future?

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Alterations of Gut Microbiome and Metabolite Profiles Associated With Anabatic Lipid Dysmetabolism in Thyroid Cancer

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Lifestyle mediates the role of nutrient-sensing pathways in cognitive aging: cellular and epidemiological evidence

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Comparison of Different Dietary Indices as Predictors of Inflammation, Oxidative Stress and Intestinal Microbiota in Middle-Aged and Elderly Subjects

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A Guide to Dietary Pattern–Microbiome Data Integration

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Diet-Related Alterations of Gut Bile Salt Hydrolases Determined Using a Metagenomic Analysis of the Human Microbiome

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The association between the dietary index for gut microbiota and metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease: a cross-sectional study

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The composition of the gut microbiome differs among community dwelling older people with good and poor appetite

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Gut Microbial Metabolism and Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

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Temporal nutrition analysis associates dietary regularity and quality with gut microbiome diversity: insights from the Food & You digital cohort

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Gut Microbiomes of Endangered Przewalski’s Horse Populations in Short- and Long-Term Captivity: Implication for Species Reintroduction Based on the Soft-Release Strategy

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Long-term Diet Quality and Gut Microbiome Functionality: A Prospective, Shotgun Metagenomic Study among Urban Chinese Adults

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Habitual Diet Pattern Associations with Gut Microbiome Diversity and Composition: Results from a Chinese Adult Cohort

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A Bayesian model of microbiome data for simultaneous identification of covariate associations and prediction of phenotypic outcomes

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Are neuromodulation interventions associated with changes in the gut microbiota? A systematic review

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Diet Quality and the Fecal Microbiota in Adults in the American Gut Project

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Vitamin A carotenoids, but not retinoids, mediate the impact of a healthy diet on gut microbial diversity

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Metabarcoding analysis of gut microbiota of healthy individuals reveals impact of probiotic and maltodextrin consumption

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Additional Resistant Starch from One Potato Side Dish per Day Alters the Gut Microbiota but Not Fecal Short-Chain Fatty Acid Concentrations

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Targeting the perinatal diet to modulate the gut microbiota increases dietary variety and prebiotic and probiotic food intakes: results from a randomised controlled trial

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Probiotics as a Treatment for “Metabolic Depression”? A Rationale for Future Studies

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Diet Affects the Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Health

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Association of dietary index of gut microbiota with cardiovascular disease risk: new evidence from NHANES 2007–2018

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The association between Dietary Index for Gut Microbiota and sarcopenia: the mediating role of Dietary Inflammatory Index

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Dietary fiber for the prevention of childhood obesity: a focus on the involvement of the gut microbiota

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Can dietary intake protect against low-grade inflammation in children and adolescents?

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Effects of Dietary Quality on Vaginal Microbiome Composition Throughout Pregnancy in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort

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Fecal Microbiota and Metabolites Predict Metabolic Health Features across Various Dietary Patterns in Adults

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Diet Quality and the Gut Microbiota in Women Living in Alabama

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Gut microbiome composition is similar between pregnant women with excess body fat with healthy and less healthy dietary intake patterns

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Association between the dietary index for gut microbiota and female infertility: a cross-sectional study of NHANES 2013–2018

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Association between the dietary index for gut microbiota and all-cause/cardiovascular mortality in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease

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