Immunonutrition: Bridging Precision Nutrition and Modern Medicine

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Immunonutrition: Bridging Precision Nutrition and Modern Medicine is written by Sofia Viana and published by Frontiers Media SA. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 2832568432 (ISBN 10) and 9782832568439 (ISBN 13).

High levels of inflammation may exert significant metabolic demands, deplete essential nutrient stores, and have immunosuppressive effects. While adequate nutrition is recognized as central to immune system homeostasis, our understanding of how supra-dietary doses of specific immunonutrients guide immune cells towards a more tolerogenic state is still evolving. Immunonutrition, a branch of precision nutrition, can be applied in any situation where nutritional support is used to modulate pro- or anti-inflammatory immune responses. Given the growing interest in this field within modern medicine, the list of immune-modulating dietary substrates has expanded in recent years beyond amino acids, nucleotides, vitamins, and fatty acids to include a wide range of naturally occurring bioactives such as polyphenols, glucans, diverse biotics (pre-, pro-, sym-, postbiotics), among others. Applications are vast, ranging from immune system development in the embryonic and the first years of life until adulthood, to the modulation of immunosenescence and inflamm-aging processes that stand at the origin of a wide range of age-related diseases including, but not limited to cancer, autoimmune, metabolic and neurodegenerative disorders.