The article summarizes the history of learning about the relationship between nutrition and immunity. The idea of supporting health with a suitable diet was already known to ancient doctors, which is documented by Hippocrates' (460-337 BC) quote "If you know nothing about a person's diet, how can...

The paper reports a comparison of the breeding value estimation for clinical mastitis when single or multitrait models were employed. The evaluation was carried out on a set of 13,775 Holstein cows, with 33,809 lactations. Monitoring of clinical mastitis occurred between 2000 and 2018, on seven...

Vaccination is essential to manage the COVID-I9 pandemic. Vaccination significantly protects against severe COVID-19. hospitalization and death; it also protects against symptomatic infection and reduces the risk of transmission to other people. Protection against the new SARS CoV2 variants may be...

In this study we evaluated host adaptation of bacterial species belonging to the family Bacteroidaceae. B. dorei, B. uniformis, B. xylanisolvens, B. ovatus, B. clarus, B. thetaiotaomicron and B. vulgatus represented human-adapted species while B. gallinaceum, B. caecigallinarum, B....

Vitamin D is an endogenous product of mammalian organisms from which an active agent of a steroid hormone nature is synthesized. These hormones participate in a variety of key metabolic processes in every nuclear cell, whether on endocrine, paracrine and autocrine or subcellular level. Vitamin D...

Considerable attention is focused on calcium and other components of milk in terms of nutritional factors in the context of overweight and obesity. Studies have shown that calcium, proteins, branched amino acids and bioactive whey peptides in particular may help to reduce weight and improve body...

It has been nearly a century, when the vitamin D came to the attention of professionals and the general public. He was and is known as an important regulator of metabolism of calcium-phosphor metabolism with the main target organs of bone, intestine and kidneys. It has been shown that this role...

Nutritional immunology often termed immunonutritology is a relatively new branch of medical sciences connecting two at first glance quite different fields, immunology and nutrition. In spite of this dissimilarity, immunonutritology has a wide impact on public health, There is a great deal of...

Breastfeeding is a natural nutrition for newborns, infants and toddlers, which is best suited to their specific needs. Breast milk has evolved throughout the existence of species to match the specific needs of the newborn. The more we know about the nutritional, immunological and other beneficial...

The aim of this review is to alert readers to the importance of iodine for human and animal organism. This paper describes the current options iodine supplementation of pigs in various forms (organic vs. inorganic) with a view to increasing concentrations of iodine in pork. Such meat would be...