Hello and this week we're considering

Hello and welcome to the Nutrition Diva podcast. I'm your host Monica Reinagal

and this week we're considering various ways to customize our diet to account for our individual differences.

This is the era of personalized nutrition.

It's not about figuring out which diet is healthiest for humans anymore because two people can follow the same diet and have very different results.

Our genes, environment, health history, even the environment and the diet that our parents had before we were even

born. All of these influence how our bodies respond to foods and nutrients. So how should we go about customizing our dietary recommendations for each individual?

In the past, people have proposed that we might base our diets on our blood type or body shape or maybe even where our ancestors

hailed from.

And none of these have really stood up to scientific scrutiny.

More recently, as medical technology has advanced, diets based on DNA profiles or

microbiome analysis are making the rounds. Some of these are still pretty

speculative. Others have some solid science to back them up.

If you're a long time listener of the show,

then you may have heard previous episodes that I've done

on several of these approaches,

including the blood type diet and DNA-based diets.

If you're new to the show, you can catch up on those by going to our

archives. You'll find a complete transcript and recording for every nutrition diva

podcast, all 554 of them at quick and dirty tips.com and in this week's transcript I've included links to several of those past shows just to make it a little bit easier for you to find them.

Just a couple of weeks ago though, I talked about a company that has developed and

validated an algorithm that can predict your blood sugar response to various foods

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