Personalized Nutrition: An Ancient Concept in Iranian Traditional Medicine

Conventionally, nutrition is considered as an essential determinant health‐related factor. It influences both preventive and therapeutic aspects of human health and disease.[1] Either quantity or quality of the nutrition is emphasized to warrant the fitness.[2] Nowadays, along with the appearance of some new high‐throughput technologies and some comprehensive advanced features of nutrition has been developed using personalized genomic data.[3] Nutrigenomic and nutrigenetics are two newfound scientific disciplines focusing on personalized nutrition according to genomic and genetic variations in different persons.[4] Nutrients present, accordingly, different metabolic behaviors among the people attributed to their variable genomic context.