Nutritional Biomarkers
Sooner or later, personalized medicine will encompass the individual’s daily nutritional needs, but that area of investigation probably is more advanced in veterinary medicine than that for humans. Recently, though, a collaboration of the NIH’s Eunice Kennedy Shriver Institute for Child Health and Human Development, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, PepsiCo, and others has funded biomarker studies that would indicate levels of folic acid, iodine, vitamin A, vitamin B12 and zinc in the blood and whether they were overabundant or deficient. A second aim of this project named “BOND“ (for Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development) is to substantiate biomarkers as scientific evidence for nutritional support policies. You’ll have to sign up for the GenomeWeb site to read this piece, but that’s easy and free. MORE