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Diet-microbiome associations in 10,068 individuals from the Human Phenotype Project to guide personalized nutrition.
Nature medicine·May 1, 2026·PMID 41872600
Why it mattersThis study provides high-resolution, population-scale evidence that diet is a dominant, reproducible driver of gut microbiome composition. For pain specialists, it reinforces the potential of dietary patterns to modulate microbiome-mediated pathways relevant to inflammation and chronic pain, though direct clinical applications remain exploratory.
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