Mixed
Gut microbiota composition, specifically the abundance of Blautia and Firmicutes, modulates lipid metabolism outcomes in response to personalized nutrition, with risk genotype carriers showing increased Blautia abundance associated with improved HDL and LDL levels.
Your gut bacteria play a role in how your body processes fats and cholesterol, especially if you have the FTO risk genotype. A personalized diet that increases microbial diversity (like the PN intervention did) may help improve your lipid profile by fostering beneficial bacteria like Blautia.
Gut microbiota, including Blautia and Firmicutes, might be involved in lipid metabolism in response to interventions. The predicted functions of the microbiota in subjects with different genotypes were related to lipid metabolism-related pathways, including fatty acid biosynthesis and degradation.
Why this rating
Microbiota analysis is observational/correlational within the RCT; functional prediction (Tax4Fun) is used, which is an inference, not direct metabolomic measurement.
Source
Gut microbiota modulates differential lipid metabolism outcomes associated with FTO gene polymorphisms in response to personalized nutrition intervention
Jianheng Zheng et al. · Frontiers in Nutrition · 2022
DOI 10.3389/fnut.2022.985723
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