Increasingly, prevention or treatment of diseases is attributed to nutrition. The vital significance of diet has been a topic of conversation for centuries. The disciplines that strive to establish the relationship between genes and food are nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics. Therefore, it is worthwhile to familiarize oneself with the latest research and consider how the future diet will look. Is it plausible that soon nutritional trends will be shaped by the genes present in the body?
Nutrigenetics - the definition
Nutrigenetics is a field of knowledge that focuses on studying genetic differences and determining the relationships between genes and nutrients. In short, it reveals how genes affect the response of the entire organism to a specific food. This means that individuals with a certain polymorphism will have to follow specific dietary recommendations. Therefore, nutrigenetics aims to adapt the diet to the genotype. It is based on knowledge from other related scientific disciplines, such as genetics, molecular biology, biochemistry, or pharmacology.
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