Precision Nutrition
Precision nutrition research identifies how dietary exposures differentially impact individuals and population subgroups in order to provide more specific nutrition guidance to promote health and reduce risk of diet-related chronic diseases.
IHA Precision Nutrition research focuses on three key areas:
- Precise measures of dietary intake, chrononutrition, lifestyle, genetic/epigenetics, microbiome
- Biomarkers, sensors, wearables, metabolomics and other technologies must be developed to characterize the dietary exposome
- Machine learning, AI, and data science to integrate and optimize multi-level data from various sources to characterize the exposome
Recent Studies
Journal of Nutrition: Sex Differences Across the Life Course: A Focus On Unique Nutritional and Health Considerations among Women
Muddy water: Additional observational data cannot aid in determining whether there is a physiological interaction between low vitamin B12 and high folate in cognitive health
Leadership
Regan Bailey, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D.
IHA Associate Director
Project title: Nutrients and Food Components in National Dietary Surveillance – WWEIA.
Associate Members
The following researchers are IHA Associate Members who have active Precision Nutrition projects underway:
Project title: Ghrelin – A Unique Biomarker for Nutritional State and Inflamm-Aging.
Project title: Raman-Based Sensing of Human and Plant Health.
Project title: Green N-Carbon Dots to Develop Climate Resilient Tomatoes with Enhanced Health Promoting Bioactive Compounds.
Project title: Edible Insects and Health.
Project title: Human Milk Oligosaccharides in Gut Health.
Project title: Precision Nutrition Research in Adolescent Females.