Metabiotics: prospects, challenges and opportunities
In this review authors discuss modern condition of treatment and prophylaxis of human metabolic diseases associated with microecological imbalance of intestinal symbiotic microbiota. Now the most frequently for these aims various probiotic nutrient additives and functional fermented foods prepared on the basis of living bacteria have been used. Unfortunately such probiotics have not possessed the real effectiveness and are not completely safe. Instead of traditional commercially available living probiotics the authors suggest to use novel microecological means (metabiotics) that are structural components of probiotic bactrerial strains, and/or their metabolites and/or signaling molecules with known chemical structure. Metabiotics can optimize host‑specific physiological, regulator, metabolic and/or hormone/behavior functions and reactions. Metabiotics possess some advantages in future personalized medicine because they have exact chemical structure, well dosed, safe and long shelf‑life.