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Salugen is a personalized health and wellness company using thirty years of genetic research, published in over 350 peer-reviewed scientific publications, to provide targeted consumers with proprietary DNA-customized nutritional solutions based on patent-protected genetic tests.

What is nutrigenomics?

Customized nutrition is often referred to as both nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics. There is a material difference between the two. Let us first clarify the differences between the terms that are often incorrectly used interchangeably. For example, pharmacogenetics uses genetic information to choose or dose medications whereas pharmacogenomics uses pharmaceuticals to change genetic activity. There is a similar difference between “nutrigenetics” and “nutrigenomics”.

Nutrigenetics has previously been defined as the “science of identifying and characterizing gene variants associated with differential responses to nutrients and relating this variation to disease states”. (Mutch D, et al. 2005) Salugen’s years of research and practical experience implementing pharmacogenetic technologies (nutrigenetics’ analog), suggest nutrigenetics can be simply defined as “the use of genetic information to choose nutrients or to guide the serving size of nutrients”. Further defined, nutrigenetics applies genetic information to drive decision-making for customized dietary intake and supplementation.

Nutrigenomics has been defined as “the use of functional genomic tools to probe a biological system following a nutritional stimulus that will permit an increased understanding of how nutritional molecules affect metabolic pathways and homeostatic control” (Mutch D, et al. 2005). Simply put, nutrigenomics is a genetic result of a nutrient’s use. It is the genetic “effect” of the nutrient and nutrigenetics is the genetic “cause” of the decision to use a nutrient.

With these definitions in place, companies have brought to market technologies they define as nutrigenomics or nutrigenetics or, in some cases, both.

There are 1st generation companies who "qualify" persons for standard diets, supplements, or lifestyle information.  There are 2nd generation companies who "identify" ingredients based upon how they influence genes, much like most foods have an impact on genes.  Then there are products like GenoTrim from Salugen that are "customized" so that nutrigenetic testing customizes the ingredients and those ingredients cause a physiological change in the person or a nutrigenomic response.  Only Salugen delivers on the promise of personalized nutrition with customization.

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