The "Virtual Digital Twins" Concept in Precision Nutrition.

ABSTRACT: Nutritional and lifestyle changes remain at the core of healthy aging and disease prevention. Accumulating evidence underscores the impact of genetic, metabolic, and host gut microbial factors on individual responses to nutrients, paving the way for the stratification of nutritional guidelines. However, technological advances that incorporate biological, nutritional, lifestyle, and health data at an unprecedented scale and depth conceptualize a future where preventative dietary interventions will exceed stratification and will be highly individualized. We herein discuss how genetic information combined with longitudinal metabolomic, immune, behavioral, and gut microbial parameters, and bioclinical variables could define a digital replica of oneself, a "virtual digital twin," which could se

SUBMITTER: Gkouskou K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7666894 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature