Personalized Nutrition: The role of genetics, microbiome and digitalization

Modern medicine has given more weight to a range of therapies for a disease, rather than a single therapeutic strategy to maximize the benefit for the individual. Typically, this would require the individualization and characterization, however this would require more costs, hence the hesitation to move in this direction.

The same is true when it comes to nutrition. Despite benchmarks being established for large populations, taking into account an individual’s context would still yield best results. Dr. Giles Major details this in his lecture, citing personalization of nutrition’s importance to some cases such as single gene disorders of digestion, absorption or metabolism. He also discusses the future of this individualization, such as its digitalization and its implications for the microbiome.