Probiotics, Nutrition and Microbes

Hyunsook Kim is an expert in the development of new functional natural food ingredients as an effective means of managing weight and decreasing risk factors for obesity and related metabolic disease. She adds value in byproduct waste from fruit and vegetable processing and also potentiates their effectiveness after combined with probiotic lactic acid from fermented foods. Using high-throughput techniques including nutrigenomics, metabolomics, metagenomics, and

biochemical analysis, she is trying to determine novel pathways and bioactive components involved in intestinal microbiota, innate immunity, infl ammation, intestinal permeability, lipid metabolism, gut-derived hormones, adipose-derived hormones that improve obesity and related metabolic diseases