I have yet to hear this on a CSI-type show, “Take him into custody, we’ve got a metabolic profile match.” However, the latest research in metabolism is showing that your metabolic profile is as unique as your fingerprint. Could this mean personalized medical care or individual diet and nutrition advice is on the horizon?
You see, metabolism is a set of chemical processes that organisms perform to maintain, well, life. These chemical processes help your body use medication, repair damage from disease or injury, turn food into energy and grow.
It is an organism’s metabolism that determines what substances it will find nutritious. And, it is our metabolic rate, or speed of metabolism, that influences how much food we require.
One article on this subject, explains the implications of this discovery as “[doctors] could pick drugs and treatments that are best for each individual, rather than today's one-size-fits all medicine.” Similarly, if we understand our personal metabolic profile, it seems that we could make informed decisions about our own personal nutritional needs. Apparently, you can do this…for a fee. For example, this is being done for weight loss and sports training programs.
Does this news help explain why the latest ‘miracle diet’ really is a miracle, as in, “it’s a miracle if it actually works?”
Image: Paurian – Flickr
You see, metabolism is a set of chemical processes that organisms perform to maintain, well, life. These chemical processes help your body use medication, repair damage from disease or injury, turn food into energy and grow.
It is an organism’s metabolism that determines what substances it will find nutritious. And, it is our metabolic rate, or speed of metabolism, that influences how much food we require.
One article on this subject, explains the implications of this discovery as “[doctors] could pick drugs and treatments that are best for each individual, rather than today's one-size-fits all medicine.” Similarly, if we understand our personal metabolic profile, it seems that we could make informed decisions about our own personal nutritional needs. Apparently, you can do this…for a fee. For example, this is being done for weight loss and sports training programs.
Does this news help explain why the latest ‘miracle diet’ really is a miracle, as in, “it’s a miracle if it actually works?”
Image: Paurian – Flickr
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There is a lot of talk about this kind of customization in the medical field, not only to do with metabolism but genetic sequencing.
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