Year-ender 2024: Nutrigenomics aims at how human genes, nutrition and health combine together. Here’s how nutrigenomics redefined nutrition in 2024. The year 2024 saw the nutrition boom. People have become more conscious of their food habits, lifestyle modifications and their dietary followings. Each body has different requirements. Diet, therefore should be tailor-cut for every person. A new type of nutritional practice has cropped up and it has taken over completely.
Nutrigenomics is the study of genes, nutrition and health. Most importantly, it deals with how each of them associates together for better health. Dt. Vaishali Verma, in an interview with HT Lifestyle, Consultant- Nutrition and Dietetics, Manipal Hospital Dwarka, New Delhi mentioned, “This aspect brings together nutrition along with an individual’s genes to induce custom eating habits according to their genetic composition along with paving a way to efficient means of achieving overall wellness.”
What is Nutrigenomics?
“The study of nutrigenomics aims to elaborate the relationship between genes and the nutritional content of what we eat. This may shape better dietary decisions by determining how our bodies react to various meals via analysis of genes,” explained Dt. Vaishali Verma
Adding to it, Dr V Mohan, Chairman, Dr Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre, Chennai, said, “Precision nutrition really took off after the advent of continuous glucose monitoring systems. We know today that the same food given to two different people may produce different types of resistance.”
Benefits of nutrigenomics:
- Optimized food absorption: One can recognize the genes that influence the absorption of nutrients and further work on metabolism to maximize food benefits.
- Restricting chronic diseases: It will reshape the diet an individual focusing it to address any genetic elements that may cause diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and obesity.
- Improve overall mental well-being: It will help one to understand the effect on genic composition on our emotions, stress levels, and modify food habits accordingly.
How Has Nutrigenomics Redefined the Nutrition Landscape?
- Improved health: By identifying the particular needs of an individual, a customized approach towards nutrition can avoid chronic diseases, optimize weight, and improving overall general health. For instance, by finding out earlier genetic conditions that may influence inflammation, gut motility, and food metabolism, nutrigenomics also aids us with the treatment of IBS. Personalized diets can keep gut health in check by catering to certain reasons, like any allergens or intolerances in the food.
- Better dietary recommendations: Personalized diets is suggested as they consider individual preferences and lifestyles.
- Well-informed decisions: People can partake and make knowledgeable decisions by pointing to individual health.
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