Diet and Immunity: A Health Check

a A study recently published in Nature Medicine Proves the importance of diet for the development of a good immune system. If food stimulates the microbiota that itself stimulates the immune system: what are the mechanisms at play?

“Let food be thy first medicine”, a maxim posited by one of the fathers of medicine, Hippocrates, is still a very anchored saying today. Miracle foods or “immune-boosting diets” regularly make headlines, along with another media star: the microbiota, our microscopic roommates that influence everyone’s health. This ecosystem of microbes with which we live in symbiosis directly affects our diet. Food, microbiota and the immune system: what is the recipe for this menage a trois?

How can we harness the high immunostimulatory potential of bacteria naturally present in the gut environment?

Report produced by Céline Loozen.

Segmented filamentous bacteria confer a strong potential in immune defense to the intestinal system. Valerie Gaboriaux RouthiauA researcher in the Intestinal Immunity Laboratory at the AP-HP Imagine Institute, This studies the mechanisms of bacteria to develop therapeutic pathways.

To what extent does our diet influence our immune system?

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