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Jun.-Prof. Dr. Marie-Christine Simon

Member

Institute of Nutrition and Food Sciences

Nutritional Physiology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Bonn Nussallee 9

marie-christine.simon@uni-bonn.de

+49 228 733814

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We are interested to investigate the link between diet, gut microbiota and cognition, since consumption of a Western diet rich in fat (>34%) and sugars with high glycemic load (19% of total energy) may lead to obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease. Furthermore, the “microbiota-gut-brain axis” has recently been proposed as a mechanistic link in the development of cognitive functions. According to this hypothesis, dietary behavior may be a critical factor in the development and maintenance of cognitive function. In this regard, our goal is to translate current findings from animal and observational studies into human intervention studies with a translational approach to elucidate this complex interaction of diet, microbiota and brain.

Marie-Christine Simon

Recent publications

  • Dietary recommendations for persons with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

    Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes : official journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association

    Authors: Thomas Skurk, Anja Bosy-Westphal, Arthur Grünerbel, Stefan Kabisch, Winfried Keuthage, André Kleinridders, Peter Kronsbein, Karsten Müssig, Helmut Nussbaumer, Andreas F H Pfeiffer, Marie-Christine Simon, Astrid Tombek, Katharina S Weber, Diana Rubin

  • Calorie-restricted oat diet is associated with zonulin and short-chain fatty acid response in metabolic syndrome: a randomized controlled trial.

    Gut microbes

    Authors: Linda Klümpen, Aakash Mantri, Anna Donkers, Waldemar Seel, Birgit Stoffel-Wagner, Martin Coenen, Matthias Schmid, Leonie Weinhold, Fabian Grein, Patrick Newels, Janis Bedarf, Ullrich Wüllner, Peter Stehle, Marie-Christine Simon

  • The MicroIBioM study: the gut microbiome in inclusion body myositis.

    Clinical and experimental rheumatology

    Authors: Maren Winkler, Waldemar Seel, Cornelia Kornblum, Marie-Christine Simon, Jens Reimann

All publications by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Marie-Christine Simon