Nutrigenomics!

[Piyush Gupta]

Hello ev one,

Interesting things happenning left right and center.

A few days back I met a few scientists from BARC. While casually chatting, one of them said she was working on a project on nutrigenomics and had done some research on Omega 3 too.

To her surprise my knowledge on these topics were also at par if not more. When she spoke about the latest research she was doing, I too gave her a hint about what's brewing inside the nutrilite labs. She was amazed out of her mind. 

The only only and only difference between her knowledge and mine was

She was pretty bored with her thesis and said she is looking to resign from BARC in the next two years, as soon as the PhD is complete, while she couldn't figure out why a marine engineer  was so excited about all the facts figures and know-how of a topic dealing in HUMAN NUTRITION & PREVENTION OF DISEASES.

Any one care to explain it to her, :-)

BTW,

Nutrigenomics

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nutrigenomics is the study of the effects of foods and food constituents on gene expression. 

It is about how our DNA is transcribed intomRNA and then to proteins and provides a basis for 

understanding the biological activity of food components. ^[1] Nutrigenomics has also been 

described by the influence of genetic variation on nutrition by correlating gene expression or

 single-nucleotide polymorphisms with a nutrient'sabsorption, metabolism, elimination or 

biological effects. By doing so, nutrigenomics aims to develop rational means to optimise 

nutrition, with respect to the subject's genotype.

By determining the mechanism of the effects of nutrients or the effects of a nutritional regime,

 nutrigenomics tries to define the causality|relationship between these specific nutrients and 

specific nutrient regimes (diets) on human health. Nutrigenomics has been associated with 

the idea of personalized nutrition based on genotype. While there is hope that nutrigenomics 

will ultimately enable such personalised dietary advice, it is a science still in its infancy and 

its contribution to public health over the next decade is thought to be major.

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