Lombardi, Vincent C, De Meirleir, Kenny L, Subramanian, Krishnamurthy et al. · The Journal of nutritional biochemistry · 2018 · DOI
Your gut bacteria and brain communicate constantly with each other in ways that affect your immune system and inflammation levels. This review looks at how diet and nutrition can change your gut bacteria in ways that might help prevent or treat brain-related diseases that involve immune problems. The authors suggest that maintaining healthy gut bacteria through food choices could be an important treatment strategy.
ME/CFS is characterized by both immune dysfunction and neurological symptoms, and emerging evidence suggests gut dysbiosis may contribute to its pathophysiology. This review identifies dietary and nutritional approaches as potential non-pharmacological strategies to modify the microbiota and potentially improve neuroimmune dysfunction in conditions like ME/CFS.
This review does not establish causation between microbiota changes and neuroimmune disease—the authors explicitly note that most associations remain correlative. It does not provide disease-specific evidence for ME/CFS or proof that dietary interventions definitively improve clinical outcomes. The review identifies future opportunities but does not validate specific dietary protocols as treatments.
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