Precision Nutrition and Human Health Care
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 June 2026
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nutrition therapy; clinical nutrition; nursing science; precision health; nutrigenomics; health promotion; vitamin D; vitamin K2; gut microbiome, resilience; cardiometabolic health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Precision nutrition, also called personalized nutrition, means different concepts to different people, depending on the clinical context. The terms have been used interchangeably, seemingly to give support to the idea that dietary counseling provided to patients by health care professionals, with or without genomic data information, is personalized nutrition. Historical accounts of the early understanding of precision nutrition date back to Hippocrates, but more recent accounts reveal that the term personalized nutrition was proposed by Dr. Linus Pauling in 1968 when he recommended focusing on meeting an individual’s genetically determined nutrient needs. A concept he labeled ‘orthomolecular nutrition’. This idea launched widespread scientific inquiry in the 1990s into interindividual responses to diet, including optimal micronutrient dosing to advance health and wellness. This brings us to this Special Issue focus on Precision Nutrition and Human Health Care. What scientific advancements have been achieved, what cutting-edge technologies are accessible and affordable, and what biological responses have been documented in patients over the past 35 years of precision nutrition? We invite all types of papers including narrative reviews, research investigations designed as exploratory, observational, or randomized controlled trials. We encourage papers describing relevant concepts and patient-centered outcomes around genetic variants, environmental exposome, microbiome links, lifestyle contributions, and behavioral patterns with implications for precision nutrition and human health care.
Dr. Mary McCarthy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- precision health
- precision nutrition
- genomics
- translational science
- biomarkers
- disease prevention
- personalized nutrition
- micronutrients
- macronutrients
- health
- wellness
- epigenetics
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