Personalized Nutrition and Microbiome Health
Introduction. We would have been instructed to do the same thing for decades. Eat more greens, reduce sugar, exercise every day, and drink a lot of water. Good advice generally, but it neglects one important point: our bodies are not identical. What boosts one person may make another individual feel lethargic and bloated. What helps one person is weight loss, but it can do nothing for another. So why are we all eating the same diet, then? That is the puzzle individualised nutrition is attempting to solve, and the solution lies way down in our body, in our microbiome. In 2025, nutrition has a new frontier. In place of diets for all, we now concentrate on data, DNA, and the gut, the three cornerstones of really personalised health. It is not something we will be able to afford in the future. It already happens today. From AI diet apps to microbiome testing strips, we are discovering how to eat based on what our body actually needs, not what is currently popular on social media. What Is P...