Personalized Diet Based On A Fingerstick
January 1, 2008 by Kendra James, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
A bigger and better diet may be only a prick away. Your nutritional needs could easily be detected by a small blood sample much like a fingerstick. By analyzing the unique metabolic changes in an individual’s body, researchers hope to develop more personalized dietary guidelines for improving health and fighting diseases such as diabetes and heart disease. Amen to that!
Metabolomics, an emerging field whose practitioners study how foods affect metabolism, may provide new tools and data for customizing today’s one-size-fits-all dietary guidelines for an individual’s own body, the article notes.
By being able to monitor the hundreds of compounds in a totally objective way, we would allow practitioners to determine exactly what works for each individual patient and also serve as a sort of bio feedback for the patient. Do you see this as effective? Do you see this as a positive resource or just hogwash? Yes that is a real word!
