Abstract:Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food." This aphorism refers to the pivotal role played by nutrition in medicine. The door of a "nutrition renaissance" has been opened with the striking disclosure of the relationship between nutrition and microbiota in the pathogenesis of many diseases, which has been better understood in the recent years. A person, once again, is "what he/ she eats. " Foods become "functional" after their integration into the unique features of the intestinal immune system, su… Show more
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