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Nutrigenetics is the interplay between nutrition and your own genetics as an individual.
For example, based on your genetics, you may benefit from more, or less, of certain vitamins or minerals – such as folic acid, or iron, respectively. A closer look at nutrition and research involving genetics helps to explain this.
What's good for one person's diet is not necessarily good for another. For instance, alcohol consumption in moderation provides health benefits for most adults, but for those who carry a certain genetic variation, regular use can increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
Genetics alone do not determine your future health and well-being. Instead, it's the interaction between your genetics and your environment, including but not limited to nutrition.
Abuses which one person can tolerate, like smoking, may bring horrible suffering to another because of a genetic vulnerability. Also, personalized medicine (pharmacogenetics) has shown that drugs which are therapeutic for most people can be ineffective, or even toxic to others who carry certain genetic variations.
Genetics loads the gun, but it's the environment that pulls the trigger.
Additional environmental triggers can include things like social environment and lifestyle, as well as things like occupational hazards, pesticides and various types of pollution.
Nutrigenetics (nutrition genetics, or nutrition research with genetics research) perfectly illustrates this gene-environment interaction. Nutrition begins at birth, continues throughout life, and profoundly interacts with our individual genetics to affect our genetics health and well-being.
Our aim is to increase awareness of, and access to, the numerous reports on genetics and a nurturing environment – including but not limited to nutrition.
Our goal is to help you discover your individual genetic health and environmental needs for both nourishment and nurturing. It’s not Nature by itself, nor Nurture by itself, but the combination of Nature and Nurture® that’s most important.
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