Raphaëlle Bourdet-Sicard

TL;DR: Dietary components including long chain ω-3 fatty acids, antioxidant vitamins, plant flavonoids, prebiotics and probiotics have the potential to modulate predisposition to chronic inflammatory conditions and may have a role in their therapy.

TL;DR: To define normal function of the gut and immune system and describe available methods of measuring it, the digestive tract is most frequently the object of functional and health claims and a large market already exists for gut-functional foods worldwide.

TL;DR: It is concluded that slowing, controlling or reversing LGI is likely to be an important way to prevent, or reduce the severity of, age-related functional decline and the onset of conditions affecting health and well-being.

TL;DR: The use of probiotics, prebiotics, helminths or microbe-derived immunoregulatory vaccines might, therefore, become a valuable approach to disease prevention.

TL;DR: It is likely that a combination of multiple inflammatory markers and integrated readouts based upon kinetic analysis following defined challenges will be the most informative biomarker of inflammation.