PERSONALIZED NUTRITION-CURRENT TRENDS AND CHALLENGES

At present at national, European and international level, there is a real tendency for personalized nutrition, known to be that a food can have a positive effect for one person and negative for another and has emerged as an alternative to solving various health problems. Personalized diet recommendations are based on data on food habits and risk behaviours, physical characteristics and genetic profiling. The genetic code is similar for all people, the small variations that differentiate us can determine the effect, different responses of nutrients and how each individual metabolize food as they interact with the genes. In the pioneering phase. the challenge is to opt out of global protocols in different conditions and paradigm shift. The nutrition of the future will be based on the identification and analysis of the genetic profile, and according to the existing data base, will be developed personalized therapeutic nutritional and pharmacological plans corresponding to the identified genetic profile. The purpose of this article is to capture the current level of knowledge about genetic factors that will allow for customized diet and broadening of the horizon of gene nutrition.