ArticleFrontiers in microbiology2023
Effects of Ramadan intermittent fasting on gut microbiome: is the diet key?
Article in Frontiers in microbiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Circadian synchronization between diet and gut microbiota in modulating host's health.Gut microbes · 2026Review
- Ramadan Fasting in Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease: Linking the Gut-Mitophagy-Circadian Axis to Endothelial Dysfunction and Hepatic Outcomes.Journal of personalized medicine · 2026Review
- Ramadan fasting induces temporal gut microbiome remodeling without metabolic improvement in adults with prediabetes.Microbiology spectrum · 2026Article
- Cross-Cultural Nutritional Epigenomics: Diet and Microbiome Interactions Shaping Type 2 Diabetes in Arab and Western Populations.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Ramadan intermittent fasting and the gut microbiome: modulation of diversity and implications for metabolic health.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- Associations among physical activity, diet, non-lifestyle characteristics and the gut microbiome of cancer patients: A scoping review and network analysis.Oncoscience · 2026Review
- The Impact of Ramadan Fasting on Endothelial Function, Cardiovascular Risk Factors, and Cardiovascular Disease.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Fasting builds a favorable environment for effective gut microbiota modulation by microbiota-accessible carbohydrates.BMC microbiology · 2025Article
- Intermittent fasting and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: the potential role of the gut-liver axis.Cell & bioscience · 2025Review
- Gut microbiota diversity in obese rats treated with intermittent fasting, probiotic-fermented camel milk with or without dates and their combinations.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Intermittent Fasting and Probiotics: Synergistic Modulation of Gut Health for Therapeutic Advantages.Probiotics and antimicrobial proteins · 2025Review
- Intermittent fasting in osteoarthritis: from mechanistic insights to therapeutic potential.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Dietary composition and fasting regimens differentially impact the gut microbiome and short-chain fatty acid profile in a Pakistani cohort.Frontiers in systems biology · 2025Article
- Intermittent fasting reduces inflammation and joint damage in a murine model of rheumatoid arthritis: insights from transcriptomic and metagenomic analyses.BMC rheumatology · 2024Article
- Interaction Between Early Meals (Big-Breakfast Diet), Clock Gene mRNA Expression, and Gut Microbiome to Regulate Weight Loss and Glucose Metabolism in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
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Abstract
Much research has been conducted regarding the impact of diet on the gut microbiota. However, the effects of dietary habits such as intermittent fasting are unclear. This study aimed to investigate the effect of intermittent fasting during Ramadan on the gut microbiota. The study was conducted on 12 healthy adult individuals who practiced fasting 17 h per day for 29 consecutive days during the month of Ramadan. To determine the dietary intake of individuals, a 3-day dietary record was kept at the beginning and end of the study. Reads that passed quality filtering were clustered, and custom-prepared 16S rRNA gene regions of bacteria associated with the human microbiome were used as a reference. Consensus sequences were created, and genus-level taxonomic annotations were determined using a sequence identity threshold of 95%. The correlations between the dietary intake measurements of the participants and the respective relative abundance of bacterial genera were investigated. The results showed that Firmicutes were higher in abundance in the gut microbiota before fasting among participants, while they were significantly lower in abundance at the end of Ramadan fasting (
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