Towards precision nutrition

One (small) step towards precision nutrition by use of metabolomics

Despite advances in nutritional epidemiological study design and analytical strategies, dietary assessment in free-living populations remains a major challenge.1 The habitual diet represents a complex set of exposures that are intercorrelated, and self-reported tools might suffer from random and systematic errors. Although several biomarkers of nutrient intake (eg, protein intake by urinary nit...

Precision nutrition for Merino ewes

Automatic monitoring of liveweight and weight change is now possible with walk–through weighing systems. Computer–based drafting can incorporate a range of measurements such as pregnancy status, past performance, value–for–wool and value–for–meat to implement decisions on supplementary feeding. The combination of these technologies will provide the option of allocating animals likely to give th...

Bariatric Surgery and Precision Nutrition

This review provides a literature overview of new findings relating nutritional genomics and bariatric surgery. It also describes the importance of nutritional genomics concepts in personalized bariatric management. It includes a discussion of the potential role bariatric surgery plays in altering the three pillars of nutritional genomics: nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics, and epigenetics. We prese...

Towards Cardio-Precision medicine.

Towards cheaper intravenous nutrition.

During these times of financial restraint it is beholden on all clinicians critically to evaluate their therapeutic methods with regard to cost effectiveness. Take, for example, intravenous nutrinion. Can it be justified in terms of clinical benefit and, if so, might not the costs be reduced without compromising the effectiveness of the regimens employed? Intravenous feeding is expensive. The s...