Nutritional genomics
Gosh…what can I add to this article? This topic has the potential to be the future of medicine if we would drop the dogma and take the money out of pharmaceutical drugs. There are currently urine tests to analyze certain genetic variations that alter a patient’s need for certain nutrients. While clinically available now, I would guess that I’ll be long retired before this actually makes it into standard practice. It will take half that long for the researchers to spend the money to determine that nutrition really does play a role is disease prevention/management and half again for the clinicians to read their own medical journals.
bmj.com Elliott and Ong 324 (7351): 1438