NUTRITION

Using genes as a means to personalize nutrition | Bruce Ames

In this clip, Bruce Ames emphasizes the importance of proper nutrition for prevention of diseases. He postulates that future technology will be able to quickly detect micronutrient deficiencies in your body. He further explains that this individualized preventive medicine is critical because of the wide variety of genetic make-ups in our society. Your genetic make-up affects the metabolism of nutrients and certain people may need to consume more to compensate for their genetics.

This clip was taken from the first FoundMyFitness interview with Bruce Ames found at

Original episode published on Feb 11, 2015