Personalized Nutrition: Current Status and Future Directions

Personalized nutrition represents an emerging frontier in scientific research with the potential to revolutionize approaches to health and well-being based on the nutritional needs of each individual, as these are dictated by the individual’s behaviour, phenotype and genotype, and their interactions. This knowledge paves the way for personalized nutritional recommendations that could significantly contribute to the prevention of chronic diseases and promote health.

Despite several studies conducted in this area, research is still in its early stages, and several challenges remain, including the selection of appropriate biomarkers, the accurate assessment of dietary intake, and the integration of data into practice. Therefore, well-designed clinical and preclinical studies are needed to develop dietary recommendations that can be applied on an individual basis.

The aim of this Research Topic is to provide a comprehensive overview of the latest discoveries in the field of personalized nutrition, focusing on how diet can be adapted to specific characteristics of individuals to improve health and prevent chronic diseases.

This Research Topic will welcome original in vitro and in vivo research, short communications, and systematic reviews focusing on, but not limited to, the following aspects:

• biomarker-based nutritional interventions: studies on the application of biomarkers, including food intake biomarkers, in the context of personalized diets to prevent or treat conditions such as cardiometabolic diseases and gastrointestinal disorders;

• applications of personalized nutrition: dietary interventions tailored for specific population groups (e.g., children, older subjects, individuals with chronic conditions) and evaluation of their effectiveness;

• nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics: studies on how individual genetic variations influence nutrient metabolism, nutritional requirements, and susceptibility to chronic diseases;

• omic approaches and metabolic profiling for dietary personalization: innovative approaches utilizing omic techniques to evaluate the impact of different dietary patterns on human health.

Article types and fees

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Classification
• Clinical Trial
• Community Case Study
• Conceptual Analysis
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
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Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Case Report
• Classification
• Clinical Trial
• Community Case Study
• Conceptual Analysis
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• FAIR² DATA Direct Submission
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Policy and Practice Reviews
• Registered Report
• Review
• Study Protocol
• Systematic Review
• Technology and Code

Keywords: personalized nutrition, omic sciences, proteomics, genomics, microbiomics, omic biomarkers, disease prevention, metabolic health, nutrient bioactivity, dietary interventions

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