The Evolution of Personalized Nutrition—From Addis Pauling and RJ Williams to the Future

摘要

As forward progress continues, coupling together a person’s genomic and epigenomic patterns with the deciphering of information that resides within the noncoding or “dark matter” of the human genome will revolutionize all fields of health care and certainly medical nutrition therapy. The more information we obtain in this field, the more we recognize that nutritional needs are not determined by single SNPs alone. Rather, it is more accurate to say that families of genes function together in a network to regulate metabolic function and its relationship to specific nutrients. The days of one-size-fits-all thinking about dietary recommendations are being replaced by excitement about specific genomic and biometric-based personalized recommendations.