Precision Nutrition – How it Works

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So there’s a lot of research going on now into exactly how to tailor precision nutrition, but really anyone can benefit from it. The idea is that this is a means to develop a personal blueprint for how and what an individual should eat in order to prevent and to treat chronic conditions. So some examples are, we all know the way to eat. We know we should be eating lots of fruits and vegetables. We should be getting plenty of fiber. We should probably not be eating too much sugar, too many processed foods. These are things that are good advice for all people, no matter what their specific nutritional blueprint is. That being said, with precision nutrition, we can take a look at how exactly does sugar affect you. How exactly do things like having gluten in your diet or eliminating gluten from your diet influence the inflammatory status of your body. We know that some conditions like diabetes, like multiple sclerosis, like inflammatory bowel disease are highly influenced by a person’s inflammatory status. Inflammatory status is something that can be improved by very specific changes in diet that allow a person’s microbiome to be as healthy as possible. And because the microbiome allows us to digest and obtain the nutrition from our food as effectively as possible, knowing what our blueprint is from an analysis that comes out of precision nutrition will allow us to be as healthy as possible and prevent or treat chronic conditions.