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Journal Article Review Epublish 23 citations

PubMed: 36012402 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23169136

Nutrition as Personalized Medicine against SARS-CoV-2 Infections: Clinical and Oncological Options with a Specific Female Groups Overview.

Int J Mol Sci 23(16)

Authors: Miriam Dellino, Eliano Cascardi, Marina Vinciguerra, Bruno Lamanna, Antonio Malvasi, Salvatore Scacco, Silvia Acquaviva, Vincenzo Pinto, Giovanni Di Vagno, Gennaro Cormio, Raffaele De Luca, Miria Lafranceschina, Gerardo Cazzato, Giuseppe Ingravallo, Eugenio Maiorano, Leonardo Resta, Antonella Daniele, Daniele La Forgia

Affiliations

  • Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari, 70100 Bari, Italy.
  • Clinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, "San Paolo" Hospital, 70123 Bari, Italy.
  • Department of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, 10124 Turin, Italy.
  • Pathology Unit, FPO-IRCCS Candiolo Cancer Institute, Str. Provinciale 142, Km 3.95, 10060 Candiolo, Italy.
  • Fetal Medicine Research Institute, King's College Hospital, London SE5 9RS, UK.
  • Department of Basic Medical Sciences and Neurosciences, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", 70121 Bari, Italy.
  • Gynecologic Oncology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Tumori Giovanni Paolo II, Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine (DIM), University of Bari "Aldo Moro", 70121 Bari, Italy.
  • IRCCS Istituto Tumori Giovanni Paolo II, 70124 Bari, Italy.
  • Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", 70121 Bari, Italy.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). It is acknowledged that vulnerable people can suffer from mortal complications of COVID-19. Therefore, strengthening the immune system particularly in the most fragile people could help to protect them from infection. First, general nutritional status and food consumption patterns of everyone affect the effectiveness of each immune system. The effects of nutrition could impact the level of intestinal and genital microbiota, the adaptive immune system, and the innate immune system. Indeed, immune system cells and mediators, which are crucial to inflammatory reaction, are in the structures of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins and are activated through vitamins (vit) and minerals. Therefore, the association of malnutrition and infection could damage the immune response, reducing the immune cells and amplifying inflammatory mediators. Both amount and type of dietary fat impact on cytokine biology, that consequently assumes a crucial role in inflammatory disease. This review explores the power of nutrition in the immune response against COVID-19 infection, since a specific diet could modify the cytokine storm during the infection phase. This can be of vital importance in the most vulnerable subjects such as pregnant women or cancer patients to whom we have deemed it necessary to dedicate personalized indications.

MeSH

Cytokines, Cells, Sars-Cov-2, Neoplasms, Diet, Covid-19, Metabolomics, Diet, Ketogenic, Immune System, Health Promotion, Immunity, Precision Medicine, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Related Coronavirus, Microbiota, Infections

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