CONCLUSION: Contrarily to common assumptions, vaginal Lactobacillus is not directly affected by smoking, which rather...

Background: Strongyloidiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by the intestinal nematode Strongyloides stercora...

Probiotics, defined as "live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on t...

Microbial communities are found across diverse environments, including within and across the human body. As many micr...

CONCLUSIONS: Diarrhoea in COVID-19 needs further investigation.

Albeit the lungs were thought to be sterile, recent scientific data reported a microbial microbiota in the lungs of h...

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CONCLUSIONS: Selective pressures in the built environment may shape the dynamic mixture of human (primarily oral-asso...

Accurate and rapid diagnostic tools are needed for management of the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pand...

CONCLUSIONS: This work contributes to the understanding of how microbiome constituents individually and collectively ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to affect the human microbiome in infected and uninfected individuals, having...

Human microbiome understanding and its relationship with health has represented a revolution in biomedicine, facilita...

Pectins are a part of daily diet as well as food additives that are indigestible polysaccharides by human enzymes, ho...

Prebiotics are known for their ability to modulate the composition of the human microbiome and mediate health-promoti...

The human microbiome refers to the genetic composition of microorganisms in a particular location in the human body. ...

The idea to use living microorganisms for disease prevention and treatment was introduced a century ago, but yet the ...

CONCLUSION: Undiagnosed and asymptomatic cases among HCWs proved rare. An increased risk was associated with Covid-19...

The Human Microbiome Project (HMP) explored microbial communities of the human body in both healthy and disease state...

The world acceptance of medical cannabis slowly widens. Cannabinoids are known as the main therapeutic active compoun...

Humans are destined to explore space, yet critical illness and injury may be catastrophically limiting for extraterre...

Despite advances in our understanding of the geographic and temporal scope of the Paleolithic record, we know remarka...

In comparative cross-species perspective, humans experience unique physical impairments with potentially large conseq...

The early onset of weaning in modern humans has been linked to the high nutritional demand of brain development that ...

CONCLUSION: Adherence to the DASH, Nordic, and portfolio diets effectively reduced BP. Low-salt diets significantly d...

OBJECTIVES: The analysis of prehistoric human dietary habits is key for understanding the effects of paleoenvironment...

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a major health problem, and its prevalence has increased in recent years,...

For many centuries, hunter-gatherer societies relied on subsistence practices and traditional diets. However, forces ...

Mobility of people and goods during the Upper Paleolithic has proven difficult to reconstruct given the relative rare...

Preliminary studies suggest that a modified Paleolithic diet may benefit symptoms of fatigue in progressive multiple ...

CONCLUSIONS: These data document associations of bacterial microbiota and eukaryotic parasites with each other and wi...

BACKGROUND: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common demyelinating disease of the central nervous system. Although the exa...

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The presence of shaped stone balls at early Paleolithic sites has attracted scholarly attention since the pioneering ...

Weight-loss diets are notorious for their low adherence, which is a barrier to efforts to reduce population rates of ...

In this study, we shed light on the interdependency of child growth, morbidity and life expectancy in the fisher-hunt...

The FADS locus contains the genes FADS1 and FADS2 that encode enzymes involved in the synthesis of long-chain polyuns...

CONCLUSION: The findings suggested an inverse association between adherence to Okinawan dietary pattern and prevalenc...

A rapid and sensitive liquid chromatographic-tandem mass spectrometric method was developed and validated to simultan...

CONCLUSIONS: These interventions caused weight loss and improved insulin sensitivity with concomitant increases in th...

Severe obesity is associated with an increased risk of admission to intensive care units and need for invasive mechan...

CONCLUSION: Thus, in the outpatient practice of epileptologists, patients with a wide range of gene mutations are fou...

The recent data have shown that in addition to biological and psychosocial mechanisms, individual pain perception can...

(1) Background: The purpose of this meta-analysis was to investigate the effects of combined exercise and low carbohy...

The carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity posits that high-carbohydrate diets lead to excess insulin secretion, there...

The role of ketone bodies in the cerebral energy homeostasis of neurological diseases has begun to attract recent att...

The existence of a common mesenchymal cell progenitor shared by bone, skeletal muscle, and adipocytes cell progenitor...

CONCLUSIONS: These findings support the potential utility of therapeutic ketosis as an adjunctive treatment in early ...

Gut microbiota is well known as playing a critical role in inflammation and asthma development. The very low-calorie ...

Ketogenic diet is a high fat and very low-carbohydrate nutritional approach that induces increased production of keto...

Objective: To investigate the clinical characteristics, treatment and prognosis of QARS1 gene related glutaminyl-tRNA...

CONCLUSION: KD not only has a therapeutic effect on glycemic and lipid control among patients with T2DM but also sign...

Under normal physiological conditions the brain primarily utilizes glucose for ATP generation. However, in situations...

Hygienic and sanitary measures and social distancing policies implemented during the new coronavirus disease - COVID-...

The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is posing a serious challenge to the health-care systems worldwide, with an ...

The relationship between type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) and hyperglycemia with cancer patients remains controversial ...

The ketogenic diet (KD) is an established, nonpharmacological treatment for drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE). Actually, ...

CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggests that management of children with DRE on KDTs through telemedicine is feasible, well a...

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One-third of epilepsy patients have drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE), which is often complicated by polydrug toxicity an...

A 40-year-old woman, known type 2 diabetes mellitus, obese (100 kg), on insulin (80 units), was under treatment for u...

Obesity and diabetes are the two major metabolic complications linked with bad eating habits and the sedentary (lazy)...

Objective: To explore the clinical characteristics of pediatric glucose transporter type 1 deficiency syndrome (GLUT1...

The myocardium is metabolically flexible; however, impaired flexibility is associated with cardiac dysfunction in con...

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Human SARS-CoV-2 infection is characterized by a high mortality rate due to some patients developing a large innate i...

Animal data indicate that ketogenic diets are associated with improved mitochondrial function, but human data are lac...

Neuroprotective and antiepileptogenic therapies have been extensively investigated for epilepsy prevention and treatm...

BACKGROUND: COVID-19 pandemic, a global threat, adversely affects all daily lives, altered governmental plans around ...

(1) Background: The influence of ketogenic diet on physical fitness remains controversial. We performed a randomized ...

The severe form of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is characterized by cytokine storm syndrome (CSS) and disseminat...

Over the last decade, there has been a dramatic surge in research exploring the human gut microbiome and its role in ...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS). Recently...

Very low-carbohydrate ketogenic diets (VLCKDs) are an emerging nutritional treatment for severe obesity and are assoc...

CONCLUSIONS: KD has a strong anti-tumor effect in the xenograft mouse model possibly by regulating cell autophagy.

Specific diets for cancer patients have the potential to offer an adjuvant modality to conventional anticancer therap...

Low-glucose and -insulin conditions, associated with ketogenic diets, can reduce the activity of the mechanistic targ...

Epilepsy is a chronic and debilitating neurological disorder, with a worldwide prevalence of 0.5-1% and a lifetime in...

CONCLUSIONS: Ketogenic diets, compared with a Mediterranean diet, have a greater effect in terms of appetite reductio...

Ketogenic diet (KD) has been used to treat epilepsy for 100 years. It is a high-fat, low-carbohydrate, and sufficient...

GM2 gangliosidoses are a group of pathologies characterized by GM2 ganglioside accumulation into the lysosome due to ...

Use of high-fat, ketogenic diets (KDs) to support physical performance has grown in popularity over recent years. Whi...

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CONCLUSIONS: This review provided evidence that web-based interventions may be an effective way to support dietary be...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The aim of this study was to summarize current contributions affecting knowledge and predictions a...

Nutritional ketosis has been proven effective for neurometabolic conditions and disorders linked to metabolic dysregu...

While many still consider food to be innocuous, ongoing research demonstrates food's role, both harmful and protectiv...

CONCLUSIONS: In breast cancer patients undergoing curative radiotherapy, a KD based on natural foods is feasible. Aft...