Nutrigenomics

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In the nutrigenomics and nutrigenomics is an area of research in which the findings from genome research , the plant breeding and genetic engineering and modern medicine are to be linked with the aim of foods to develop, resulting in the medical prevention can be used and treatment. This goal is to be achieved through the development of special types of designer food - functional food ("vaccine banana"), nutraceuticals (food with pharmaceutical effects) - and food additives . The area of ​​nutrigenomics is one of the youngest areas of modern biotechnological research . International and national research projects in this area, such as those of the Nutrigenome Research Berlin-Brandenburg network , are largely being set up or are in the establishment phase.

With the help of the most modern biotechnological techniques, the aim is to try to make the findings from the genome analysis of the human genome project and the plant genome projects usable for medicine. Nutrigenomics thus competes to a certain extent with the projects of pharmacogenomics (internationally known as pharmacogenomics) of large pharmaceutical companies , but these two branches of research also complement or overlap to a large extent.

Another area of ​​nutrigenomics is nutritional advice. Genetic metabolic analyzes are to be used to find tailor-made forms of nutrition for people. Individual recommendations should help patients find a healthy diet. At the moment, Johanna Feichtinger from the Association for Independent Health Consulting assesses the usefulness of such tests as doubtful. "The relationship between nutrition and genes is too complex for direct recommendations to be derived from the results so far."

The current work in nutrigenome research focuses on the further decoding of the genome of humans and various useful plants , research into the genetic causes of various common diseases , research into nutrition-related diseases and the development of functional food through genetic engineering. This research is also difficult because once a genome has been deciphered, nothing is known about the epigenetic markings and their gene regulatory effects.

literature

  • G. Rimbach, J. Fuchs, L. Packer: Nutrigenomics , CRC Press / Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton 2005 ISBN 0-8247-2663-4 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Feichtinger, Johanna: Nutrigenomics - The future of nutritional advice? In: UGB Forum No. 1 . (2013). Pp. 48-49. Online at: http://www.ugb.de/ernaehrungsberatung/nutrigenomik/ Retrieved on June 21, 2013.

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