Future Visions of Personalized and Precision Nutrition

Precision Nutrition is an emerging discipline that will attain its potential through the integration of existing data in different domains into an integrated vision of human nutrition that is personalized and based on individual variations in response to nutrients, meals, and exercise. Precision Nutrition has the potential to impact personalized wellness through improvements in prediction, prevention, personalization, and participation. In this sense, Precision Nutrition is closely aligned with precision health, but it extends beyond the medical model of an individual doctor-patient relationship to self-care. The combined roles of the genome, epigenome, microbiome, phenome, and exposome on the individual’s metabolism and physiology are not yet integrated, providing both challenges and opportunities for Precision Nutrition. The future promise of Precision Nutrition will use insights derived from a combination of nutrient analysis, anthropometry, and genetics: epigenetics, microbiotics, metabolomics, and social environmental exposures.