Nutrigenetics, Epigenetics, Nutrigenomics, Metabolomics, the Microbiome and the NIH

Healthy or sick, learning how food and genes interact is as fundamental as understanding one’s family history.

In its recently released 2020-2030 Strategic Plan for NIH Nutrition Research, NIH emphasizes Precision Nutrition as “critical for developing more targeted and effective dietary interventions to improve and maintain health in an increasingly diverse U.S. population.”

The University of North Carolina Nutrition Research Institute (UNC NRI) website is a very good place to begin to learn more about things like nutrigenetics, epigenetics, nutrigenomics, metabolomics, and the microbiome.

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