As a kinesiologist, I am often asked to give advice regards nutrition to my friends and collegues, and also create nutrition programs designed especially for them. Personally, I think I shouldn't do that and involve myself into the field in which I'm not categorized in and educated enough. Also, I see a lot of "fitness trainers" who graduated from 3 months course and now they're calling themselfs experts not just in fitness but also in nutrition. I think playing with this is really dangerous, because everyone is so individual and special in their own unique way and you could really make huge mistakes if you are not well educated.
What do you think about this problem in the world? What are the solutions? And also, what are the best methods in creating individual nutrition programs?
An individual's dietary and supplement strategies can influence markedly their physical performance. Personalized nutrition in athletic populations aims to optimize health, body composition, and exercise performance by targeting dietary recommendations to an individual's genetic profile. Sport dietitians and nutritionists have long been adept at placing additional scrutiny on the one-size-fits-all general population dietary guidelines to accommodate various sporting populations. However, generic “one-size-fits-all” recommendations still remain. Genetic differences are known to impact absorption, metabolism, uptake, utilization and excretion of nutrients and food bioactives, which ultimately affects a number of metabolic pathways. Nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics are experimental approaches that use genomic information and genetic testing technologies to examine the role of individual genetic differences in modifying an athlete's response to nutrients and other food components. Although there have been few randomized, controlled trials examining the effects of genetic variation on performance in response to an ergogenic aid, there is a growing foundation of research linking gene-diet interactions on biomarkers of nutritional status, which impact exercise and sport performance. This foundation forms the basis from which the field of sport nutrigenomics continues to develop. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6389634/
Kindly check https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4540168/
Also check https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13668-020-00318-0
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