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. 2012 Apr 26;3:113. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2012.00113

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Conceptualization of nutritional metabonomics for gastrointestinal health and risk management. The metabolic status of individuals results from gene, environment, lifestyle, food, and gut microbiota continuous interactions. The relationship between host and gut microbiota, with the metabolic influence of gut symbionts at different level of biological organization, underpins the depth of symbiotic control over multiple host cell metabolic regulatory functions.