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Dietary Intake Assessment
What is Nutrigenomics?
Nutrigenomics is the study of how nutrition changes how our genes work and how genes change our nutrient requirements.
Diet can modify the switches built into DNA that turn genes on and off. Our research shows how diet during pregnancy can work in this way to change how brain develops.
Genes can also change our nutrient requirements. More than 500,000 gene variations exist that we can inherit from our ancestors. Each of us has, perhaps, 50,000 of them, and some are variations in genes for metabolism. Our research shows how this can predict whether we need more or less of certain important vitamins and nutrients.
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