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Nutraceuticals and Herbal Food Supplements for Weight Loss: Is There a Prebiotic Role in the Mechanism of Action?

Numerous nutraceuticals and botanical food supplements are used with the intention of modulating body weight. A recent review examined the main food supplements used in weight loss, dividing them according to the main effects for which they were investigated. The direct or indirect effects exerted o...

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Autores principales: Bertuccioli, Alexander, Cardinali, Marco, Biagi, Marco, Moricoli, Sara, Morganti, Ilaria, Zonzini, Giordano Bruno, Rigillo, Giovanna
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8703584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34946029
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9122427
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author Bertuccioli, Alexander
Cardinali, Marco
Biagi, Marco
Moricoli, Sara
Morganti, Ilaria
Zonzini, Giordano Bruno
Rigillo, Giovanna
author_facet Bertuccioli, Alexander
Cardinali, Marco
Biagi, Marco
Moricoli, Sara
Morganti, Ilaria
Zonzini, Giordano Bruno
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description Numerous nutraceuticals and botanical food supplements are used with the intention of modulating body weight. A recent review examined the main food supplements used in weight loss, dividing them according to the main effects for which they were investigated. The direct or indirect effects exerted on the intestinal microbiota can also contribute to the effectiveness of these substances. The aim of this review is to evaluate whether any prebiotic effects, which could help to explain their efficacy or ineffectiveness, are documented in the recent literature for the main nutraceuticals and herbal food supplements used for weight loss management. Several prebiotic effects have been reported for various nutraceutical substances, which have shown activity on Bifidobacterium spp., Lactobacillus spp., Akkermansia muciniphila, Faecalibacterium prausnitzi, Roseburia spp., and the Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio. Different prebiotics have beneficial effects on weight and the related metabolic profile, in some cases even acting on the microbiota with mechanisms that are completely independent from those nutraceuticals for which certain products are normally used. Further studies are necessary to clarify the different levels at which a nutraceutical substance can exert its action.
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spelling pubmed-87035842021-12-25 Nutraceuticals and Herbal Food Supplements for Weight Loss: Is There a Prebiotic Role in the Mechanism of Action? Bertuccioli, Alexander Cardinali, Marco Biagi, Marco Moricoli, Sara Morganti, Ilaria Zonzini, Giordano Bruno Rigillo, Giovanna Microorganisms Review Numerous nutraceuticals and botanical food supplements are used with the intention of modulating body weight. A recent review examined the main food supplements used in weight loss, dividing them according to the main effects for which they were investigated. The direct or indirect effects exerted on the intestinal microbiota can also contribute to the effectiveness of these substances. The aim of this review is to evaluate whether any prebiotic effects, which could help to explain their efficacy or ineffectiveness, are documented in the recent literature for the main nutraceuticals and herbal food supplements used for weight loss management. Several prebiotic effects have been reported for various nutraceutical substances, which have shown activity on Bifidobacterium spp., Lactobacillus spp., Akkermansia muciniphila, Faecalibacterium prausnitzi, Roseburia spp., and the Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio. Different prebiotics have beneficial effects on weight and the related metabolic profile, in some cases even acting on the microbiota with mechanisms that are completely independent from those nutraceuticals for which certain products are normally used. Further studies are necessary to clarify the different levels at which a nutraceutical substance can exert its action. MDPI 2021-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8703584/ /pubmed/34946029 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9122427 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Cardinali, Marco
Biagi, Marco
Moricoli, Sara
Morganti, Ilaria
Zonzini, Giordano Bruno
Rigillo, Giovanna
Nutraceuticals and Herbal Food Supplements for Weight Loss: Is There a Prebiotic Role in the Mechanism of Action?
title Nutraceuticals and Herbal Food Supplements for Weight Loss: Is There a Prebiotic Role in the Mechanism of Action?
title_full Nutraceuticals and Herbal Food Supplements for Weight Loss: Is There a Prebiotic Role in the Mechanism of Action?
title_fullStr Nutraceuticals and Herbal Food Supplements for Weight Loss: Is There a Prebiotic Role in the Mechanism of Action?
title_full_unstemmed Nutraceuticals and Herbal Food Supplements for Weight Loss: Is There a Prebiotic Role in the Mechanism of Action?
title_short Nutraceuticals and Herbal Food Supplements for Weight Loss: Is There a Prebiotic Role in the Mechanism of Action?
title_sort nutraceuticals and herbal food supplements for weight loss: is there a prebiotic role in the mechanism of action?
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8703584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34946029
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms9122427
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