Harmonization of Eastern and Western Health Knowledge ; Nutrigenetics and Sasang Typology

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The completion of human genome project and the powerful tools of molecular biology together with bioinformatics technology give possibility to open the dialog between modern medicine and traditional remedies including Eastern medicine. Many of functional foods are originated from the traditional herbal medicine, and the scientific substantiation of the effectiveness of these products is required for the regulatory standards as well as for consumer protection. Needs for the reliable and efficient methods of scientific substantiation are increasing, and nutrigenomics may provide a short-cut way to scientific evaluation of many functional food ingredients and herbal medicine which have been used in the traditional societies for thousand years. Studies to apply nutrigenomic methodologies to the objective classification of Sasang body constitution types of Korean are reviewed. It is suggested that the empirical health food knowledge accumulated in the Eastern medicine may be explained scientifically by using the nutrigenomic methods, and it will contribute to open the custom-made nutrigenetic food age in the near future.
社団法人　日本食品科学工学会の論文
2007-05-01