ReviewFrontiers in physiology2017
Links between Dietary Protein Sources, the Gut Microbiota, and Obesity.
Review in Frontiers in physiology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 60 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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60 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 109 citations in OpenAlex.
- Terrestrial Animal Source Foods and Health Outcomes for Those with Special Nutrient Needs in the Life Course.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
- Protein yogurt and whey protein produce comparable muscle gains, but divergent microbiome shifts during strength training in older adults.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Genetically determined gut microbial abundance and 2-year changes in central adiposity and body composition: The POUNDS lost trial.Clinical nutrition (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2022Trial
- Altered Dairy Protein Intake Does Not Alter Circulatory Branched Chain Amino Acids in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Nutrients · 2018Trial
- Protein-lipid interactions in food matrices and their roles in gastrointestinal lipid digestion.Food chemistry: X · 2026Review
- Early-Life Dietary Protein Source Reshapes Gut Microbiota but Fails to Curtail Diet-Induced Metabolic Syndrome in Young Rats.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2026Article
- Grain proteins ameliorate glucose metabolism disorders by activating intestinal AhR and the hepatic NLK/FOXO1 pathway via gut microbiota-derived indole metabolites.Journal of advanced research · 2026Article
- The Dietary Protein Source Modulates Obesity Development and Induces Distinct Plasma Lipid Profiles and Transcriptome Profiles in Liver and Adipose Tissue.Molecular nutrition & food research · 2026Article
- Nexus of Whey Proteins, Gut Dysbiosis, and Colonic Health.Food science & nutrition · 2026Review
- Network-based representation learning reveals the impact of age and diet on the gut microbial and metabolomic environment of U.S. infants in a randomized controlled feeding trial.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Microbiota humanization drives human-like metabolic and immune transcriptomic shifts in pigs.iMetaOmics · 2025Article
- The association between total, animal, and plant protein intake and metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease in overweight and obese children and adolescents.Nutrition journal · 2025Article
- The impact of supplementation with highland barley in different nutrients on weight loss: The nutrients and function relationship.Food chemistry: X · 2025Article
- Yeast protein modulates metabolites derived from the human gut microbiota of older male adultsFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- The impact of a high-protein diet with strength training on the gastrointestinal microbiota in community-dwelling older adults: subanalysis of a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
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- Differential Roles of Diet on Development and Spinal Cord Regeneration in Larval Zebrafish.Zebrafish · 2024Article
- Effect of a Probiotic Beverage Enriched with Cricket Proteins on the Gut Microbiota: Composition of Gut and Correlation with Nutritional Parameters.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The effects of food provisioning on the gut microbiota community and antibiotic resistance genes of Yunnan snub-nosed monkey.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Diet Quality and Mortality among Chinese Adults: Findings from the China Health and Nutrition Survey.Nutrients · 2023Article
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Abstract
The association between the gut microbiota and obesity is well documented in both humans and in animal models. It is also demonstrated that dietary factors can change the gut microbiota composition and obesity development. However, knowledge of how diet, metabolism and gut microbiota mutually interact and modulate energy metabolism and obesity development is still limited. Epidemiological studies indicate an association between intake of certain dietary protein sources and obesity. Animal studies confirm that different protein sources vary in their ability to either prevent or induce obesity. Different sources of protein such as beans, vegetables, dairy, seafood, and meat differ in amino acid composition. Further, the type and level of other factors, such as fatty acids and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) vary between dietary protein sources. All these factors can modulate the composition of the gut microbiota and may thereby influence their obesogenic properties. This review summarizes evidence of how different protein sources affect energy efficiency, obesity development, and the gut microbiota, linking protein-dependent changes in the gut microbiota with obesity.
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