Precision Nutrition

Catalog description

This online asynchronous course will present content aimed at uncovering the role of precision nutrition in improving health, wellness, and disease prevention in humans. Students will learn the effects of the interactions of diet with genetics/epigenetics, microbiome, metabolism, environment, physical activity, and economical, social, and behavioral factors that contribute to overall health. Individualized nutritional plans to optimize health and reduce metabolic disease risk will be planned. This course will cover the growing field of precision nutrition with a focus on current methods and applications of individual disease risk assessments to design personalized recommendations for optimal health outcomes. It is based on assigned topics and readings covering a variety of emerging concepts in precision nutrition and in broader precision medicine approaches. Students will advance their knowledge in understanding dietary recommendations for population subgroups and how to refine recommendations informed by genetic background and deep phenotyping, coupled with emerging nutrition science findings in the peer-reviewed literature.