General Dietary Recommendations Do Not Fit Everyone

It has long been known that a balanced diet has a positive impact and the regular consumption of unhealthy foods has a negative effect on our health. However, it is hardly possible to make general dietary recommendations because they do not take individual predispositions and needs into account.

What is healthy for one person may have the opposite effect on another and may even promote the development of diseases. The cause of these individual differences lies in the genes.

Nutrigenetics Determines Optimal Nutrition

It has now been discovered that numerous genetic variations influence how the body responds to certain nutrients or food components and which substances it can properly convert and utilize. This is demonstrated, for example, by well-known metabolic issues such as lactose or gluten intolerances, but also many other possible complaints.

This area of genetics is known as nutrigenetics, which allows for optimizing individual nutrition based on the analysis of nutrition-relevant genes. The decision whether a particular food or ingredient is healthy must always consider the overall picture. In some genetic metabolic disorders, calcium-rich dairy products are very healthy for the body, while milk may be unhealthy in other genetic metabolic problems. In this case, other foods with a high calcium content are particularly important to solve a metabolic problem without triggering another issue. Additionally, if due to unfavorable genetic variations the body’s detoxification of heavy metals like lead is impaired, the need for calcium and other micronutrients increases further to prevent heavy metal poisoning. Therefore, the actual calcium requirement can only be determined if all relevant genes are considered in the analysis.
A genetic analysis like this can help identify potential metabolic problems and improve your health level.

How Does the Nutrition Sensor Work?

With our Nutrition Sensor, our laboratory examines the submitted saliva sample for more than 50 genetic variations and their impact on approximately 20 common metabolic disorders.

The comprehensive genetic analysis provides important information about your individual strengths and weaknesses regarding the utilization of various nutrients. When choosing or avoiding foods, these should be taken into account.

We summarize all analysis results in a detailed report that describes where variations in nutrition-relevant genes could lead to problems and how these are generally to be assessed.

Based on the examination results, we provide concrete recommendations for more than 900 foods. Thus, the reliable testing procedure of the Nutrition Sensor offers the opportunity to adjust nutrition individually to the health conditions.