Nutragenomics: Plant genetics for antiaging nutrition?

A significant part of any antiaging treatment program is optimal nutrition.  A new way of achieving this is being developed through “Nutragenomics”.

Nutragenomics studies how foods interact with your genes. From this understanding, scientists and nutritional experts can devise specific food growing recommendations for populations; even individuals.

Food is very complicated, so it’s hard to say exactly what food each of us should eat, or to put foods into categories of good or bad for a particular person or population. At the macro level, following basic healthy food groups is a good starting guide.  The most you can do for your health is eat less and eat right, three times a day.

However, at the micro-level, Nutragenomics is looking at how to genetically modify plants to raise the nutrient levels of foods, in particular, in underdeveloped countries where the foods they grow are deficient of the nutrients that we eat every day. But I see no reason it couldn’t be applied to growing ‘Super Foods’.

Specific food growing regimes can be devised for each Nutrogenomic demographic. It will be interesting to see if environmentalists will label this another form of genetic engineering!