Gut Microbiota and Childhood Malnutrition: Understanding the Link and Exploring Therapeutic Interventions

Overview

Journal Eng Life Sci

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2024 May 6

PMID 38708416

Authors

Sevda Zoghi

Fatemah Sadeghpour Heravi

Zeinab Nikniaz

Masoud Shirmohamadi

Seyed Yaghoub Moaddab

Hamed Ebrahimzadeh Leylabadlo

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Abstract

Childhood malnutrition is a metabolic condition that affects the physical and mental well-being of children and leads to resultant disorders in maturity. The development of childhood malnutrition is influenced by a number of physiological and environmental factors including metabolic stress, infections, diet, genetic variables, and gut microbiota. The imbalanced gut microbiota is one of the main environmental risk factors that significantly influence host physiology and childhood malnutrition progression. In this review, we have evaluated the gut microbiota association with undernutrition and overnutrition in children, and then the quantitative and qualitative significance of gut dysbiosis in order to reveal the impact of gut microbiota modification using probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, postbiotics, fecal microbiota transplantation, and engineering biology methods as new therapeutic challenges in the management of disturbed energy homeostasis. Understanding the host-microbiota interaction and the remote regulation of other organs and pathways by gut microbiota can improve the effectiveness of new therapeutic approaches and mitigate the negative consequences of childhood malnutrition.

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