{"id":227393,"date":"2026-08-06T15:25:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/?p=227393"},"modified":"2026-08-06T15:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:25:28","slug":"19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"19: Nutrition &amp; probiotics, and invitation Long-Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<style id=\"divi-off-canvas-hide-on-load\">\n[data-interaction-target=\"zwocqpy6qf\"] { display: none !important; }\n<\/style>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nutrition and\/or probiotics: when are they most promising?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are regularly asked whether adjusting diet and lifestyle is not enough to restore the microbiome. Indeed, it is known that an adjustment of the diet within one or a few days can change the composition of the microbiome, just like exposure to stress (1,2). However, research also shows that the effects vary from person to person. Just as a healthy microbiome is resistant to perturbations, a disturbed microbiome can also be stable and unaffected by interventions (3). This is called stability or resilience (3,4,5). The microbiome forms a complex ecosystem that can be compared to a forest. Rainfall, an insect infestation, or a forest fire influence the composition of the vegetation in a forest, but the ecosystem as such usually recovers after such pertubation. Sometimes the disturbances in an ecosystem are so great that it does not return to a healthy state comparable to the initial situation. The microbiome has then reached a new stable but dysbiotic equilibrium point that is difficult to return to a healthy equilibrium point (3). If diet and lifestyle have insufficient effect, an intervention with personalized probiotics is an approach that can be considered to move from the unhealthy to a healthy equilibrium point (4,6).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PASC (Long-Covid) and the Microbiome: Invitation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Knowledge Flash #10 we already paid attention to the relationship between Covid-19 and the gut microbiome (7). More research has since been published showing an important role of the microbiome and gut permeability (8). It is itself hypothesized that the microbiome may play a role in fighting viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 (9).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent months it has become clear that relatively many Covid patients have long-term, post-infectious complaints. Although the term Lung Covid is often used for this, \u201cpost-acute sequelae of COVID-19\u201d (PASC) is a better description (10). Post-infectious symptoms are not unique to Covid-19; in most bacterial and viral infections, chronic complaints develop in a subgroup of infected patients (10). There are a large number of mechanisms suspected of being involved in PASC (Reference 8 provides an excellent overview) and one of these is a disrupted gut microbiome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We suspect that microbiome intervention may be supportive of the recovery process in certain cases. We are curious about your experiences and would like to learn with you whether and how microbiome therapy contributes to the recovery of PASC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you have PASC patients in your practice who also have microbiome disruption or abdominal complaints? Then we would like to invite you to contact us and share your experiences with us. If you don\u2019t have time to write it down, you can also call. We make an overview of the cases and experiences of you and your colleagues in order to extract new insights from this and share it with all colleagues. In this way, together we can make the cycle of experience-knowledge-application as short as possible. We would also like to hear from you if you have suggestions about how we can tackle this and which parties we can work with. We are very curious if we can get something like this going together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nature12820\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nature12820<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0129996\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0129996<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nrmicro.2017.58\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nrmicro.2017.58<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/gutjnl-2020-321747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/gutjnl-2020-321747<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nature11550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/nature11550<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fmicb.2020.572921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fmicb.2020.572921<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.studioboszkers.nl\/microbiome-center\/en\/medici\/kennisflits\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.microbiome-center.nl\/Medici\/Kennisflits\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fimmu.2021.708149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fimmu.2021.708149<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.nl\/darmflora-zou-ingezet-kunnen-worden-in-strijd-tegen-virussen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.nl\/darmflora-zou-ingezet-kunnen-worden-in-strijd-tegen-virussen<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fmicb.2021.698169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/fmicb.2021.698169<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_pb_section--fixed et_section_regular et_flex_section et-interaction-target-zwocqpy6qf preset--module--divi-section--default\" data-interaction-trigger=\"7hv7hq8l9z\" data-interaction-target=\"zwocqpy6qf\" id=\"video_canvas\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_flex_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et-last-child et_flex_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et_flex_column_24_24 et_flex_column_24_24_tablet et_flex_column_24_24_phone\"><div class=\"et_pb_icon_0 et_pb_icon et_pb_module et_flex_module video_close\"><span class=\"et_pb_icon_wrap\"><span class=\"et-pb-icon\">\uf057<\/span><\/span><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_code_0 et_pb_code et_pb_module\" id=\"microbiome_center_video_iframe\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nutrition and\/or probiotics: when are they most promising? We are regularly asked whether adjusting diet and lifestyle is not enough to restore the microbiome. Indeed, it is known that an adjustment of the diet within one or a few days can change the composition of the microbiome, just like exposure to stress (1,2). However, research [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"doelgroep":[106],"class_list":["post-227393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","doelgroep-practitioner"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>19: Nutrition &amp; probiotics, and invitation Long-Covid - Microbiome Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"19: Nutrition &amp; probiotics, and invitation Long-Covid - Microbiome Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nutrition and\/or probiotics: when are they most promising? We are regularly asked whether adjusting diet and lifestyle is not enough to restore the microbiome. Indeed, it is known that an adjustment of the diet within one or a few days can change the composition of the microbiome, just like exposure to stress (1,2). However, research [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Microbiome Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-06T13:25:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-06T13:25:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Henk Duinkerken\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Henk Duinkerken\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Henk Duinkerken\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5cde9902b8b7f8f1bd00c360f00ac625\"},\"headline\":\"19: Nutrition &amp; probiotics, and invitation Long-Covid\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-06T13:25:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-08-06T13:25:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":562,\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\\\/\",\"name\":\"19: Nutrition &amp; probiotics, and invitation Long-Covid - Microbiome Center\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-06T13:25:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-08-06T13:25:28+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5cde9902b8b7f8f1bd00c360f00ac625\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"19: Nutrition &amp; probiotics, and invitation Long-Covid\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/\",\"name\":\"Microbiome Center\",\"description\":\"Nieuw licht op chronische klachten\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5cde9902b8b7f8f1bd00c360f00ac625\",\"name\":\"Henk Duinkerken\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/wp-content\\\/litespeed\\\/avatar\\\/d28949657f11f375a56b5f2f9bfa8d15.jpg?ver=1788167343\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/wp-content\\\/litespeed\\\/avatar\\\/d28949657f11f375a56b5f2f9bfa8d15.jpg?ver=1788167343\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/wp-content\\\/litespeed\\\/avatar\\\/d28949657f11f375a56b5f2f9bfa8d15.jpg?ver=1788167343\",\"caption\":\"Henk Duinkerken\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/microbiome-center.nl\\\/en\\\/author\\\/henk-duinkerken\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"19: Nutrition &amp; probiotics, and invitation Long-Covid - Microbiome Center","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"19: Nutrition &amp; probiotics, and invitation Long-Covid - Microbiome Center","og_description":"Nutrition and\/or probiotics: when are they most promising? We are regularly asked whether adjusting diet and lifestyle is not enough to restore the microbiome. Indeed, it is known that an adjustment of the diet within one or a few days can change the composition of the microbiome, just like exposure to stress (1,2). However, research [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\/","og_site_name":"Microbiome Center","article_published_time":"2026-08-06T13:25:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-08-06T13:25:28+00:00","author":"Henk Duinkerken","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Henk Duinkerken","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\/"},"author":{"name":"Henk Duinkerken","@id":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/5cde9902b8b7f8f1bd00c360f00ac625"},"headline":"19: Nutrition &amp; probiotics, and invitation Long-Covid","datePublished":"2026-08-06T13:25:21+00:00","dateModified":"2026-08-06T13:25:28+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\/"},"wordCount":562,"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\/","url":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\/","name":"19: Nutrition &amp; probiotics, and invitation Long-Covid - Microbiome Center","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/#website"},"datePublished":"2026-08-06T13:25:21+00:00","dateModified":"2026-08-06T13:25:28+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/5cde9902b8b7f8f1bd00c360f00ac625"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/19-nutrition-probiotics-and-invitation-long-covid\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"19: Nutrition &amp; probiotics, and invitation Long-Covid"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/","name":"Microbiome Center","description":"Nieuw licht op chronische klachten","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/5cde9902b8b7f8f1bd00c360f00ac625","name":"Henk Duinkerken","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/d28949657f11f375a56b5f2f9bfa8d15.jpg?ver=1788167343","url":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/d28949657f11f375a56b5f2f9bfa8d15.jpg?ver=1788167343","contentUrl":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/wp-content\/litespeed\/avatar\/d28949657f11f375a56b5f2f9bfa8d15.jpg?ver=1788167343","caption":"Henk Duinkerken"},"url":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/author\/henk-duinkerken\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227394,"href":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227393\/revisions\/227394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227393"},{"taxonomy":"doelgroep","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microbiome-center.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doelgroep?post=227393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}