Where Innovations Meets Personalized and Precision Medicine

From Uniform to Unique: The Shift toward Personalized Dietary Plans

Document Type : Review Article

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Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences & Dietetics, Health Equity Research Center (HERC)

Abstract
Precision nutrition is now feasible thanks to recent developments in genomic and multi-omic technology, which have significantly changed our understanding of the complex interactions between nutrition, genetics, and health.Sometimes shortened to nutrigenetics, epigenetics, metagenomics, and nutrigenomics, nutritional genomics is the study of how environmental influences, gut flora, genetic variants, and gene expression affect food responses and illness risk. This new work offers significant fresh ideas for modifying diets to fit traditional food systems, cultural conventions, and personal genetic profiles. Diet evolution aims to solve the flaws in the "one-diet-fits-all" approach in view of the worldwide increase in chronic diseases. Variations in genes and cultural standards call into doubt the health advantages of often advised diets, including the Mediterranean model, when considered in specific communities. Customized diet regimens aimed at enhancing health should take into account lifestyle, regional cuisine, microbiome variety, genetic inheritance, and other elements. Combining traditional cooking skills with modern scientific information provides a culturally sensitive, environmentally friendly, and effective method to prevent diseases and promote long-term health improvement as is becoming the case in public health strategies.

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Volume 10, Issue 38 - Serial Number 38
Original article
Summer 2025
Pages 12-19

  • Receive Date 12 May 2025
  • Revise Date 22 June 2025
  • Accept Date 28 August 2025