October 23, 2019•Preventive Healthcare

The future of nutrition

Dr. Eran Elinav is a professor at the Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, and since 2019, the director of the cancer-microbiome division, at the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. Dr. Elinav is also a co-author, together with Prof. Eran Segal, of the book, The Personalized Diet, summarizing some of their research on personalized nutrition.

In this podcast we cover:

The science behind the book “The Personalized Diet”
What is the role of our microbiome in our personalized diet?
What can we do to increase our healthy longevity through nutrition?
What is the future of personalized medicine and nutrition?

Highlights

We didn't just get six measurements of sugar as was done in the 70s, but 2,500 measurements, which created a huge database.
Following the publication of the results, and multiple follow-up studies that we also published, the Weizmann Institute outsourced the set up discoveries to a spin-off company called DayTwo.
We were very much surprised to find that a large chunk of the features that the artificial intelligence system chose to use relates to the gut microbiome.
I think that personalized medicine or precision medicine is taking off in many different fields.