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Gut microbiota / Evidence-based microbiome knowledge (incl. AI chat)
Prebiotics, Probiotics, FMT / Manipulators of the Intestinal Microbiota

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Firmicutes / Bacillota & Food / Diets / Nutrients

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The greater metabolic diversity found in Firmicutes with respect to Bacteroidetes (348 metabolic pathways versus 76, respectively) (Caspi et al. 2016 Nucleic Acids Res 44: D471-80), supports the idea that the Firmicutes phylum could extract more energy from the diet
Santos-Marcos et al. 2019 Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 70: 1-27

In general, increases in the [Firmicutes](bra…

An obesity-associated gut microbiome with increased capacity for energy harvest
Turnbaugh et al. 2006 Nature 444: 1027-31
Gut microbiome and serum metabolome alterations in obesity and after weight-loss intervention
Liu et al. 2017 Nature Medicine 23: 859-868
Microbiome, bile acids, and obesity: How microbially modified metabolites shape anti-tumor immunity
Sipe et al. 2020 Immunol Rev 295: 220-239
Review
The Gut Microbiota and Unhealthy Aging: Disentangling Cause from Consequence
DeJong et al. 2020
Review
The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of pathway/genome databases
Caspi et al. 2016 Nucleic Acids Res 44: D471-80
The role of diet and intestinal microbiota in the development of metabolic syndrome
Santos-Marcos et al. 2019 Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry 70: 1-27
Review

5/29/2026