One of the most promising
developments, and one we predict will become increasingly visible in 2019, is
personalised nutrition based on your gut microbiome. Diet and nutrition advice
tends to be delivered at a population level (e.g. five-a-day, eat more fibre),
but the more we understand about the gut, the more we discover that a
one-size-fits-all approach to diet doesn’t work.
Biotech companies like Viome and Atlas Biomed
have been promoting at-home gut testing for a couple of years as a way of
finding out more about your gut and what to eat, and this year Carbiotix became
the first company to release a low cost gut microbiome test.
In 2019, Project Sapiens — a team led by
geneticist Tim Spector and including some of the best artificial intelligence
experts in the UK — will release a test that uses machine learning to help
people understand how their body responds to specific foods.
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