Mindful Medicine

A study published this June in Nature Medicine, says inflammation after meals varies significantly among healthy adults, pointing to the need for personalized eating plans.The study – which consisted of 1,103 subjects including 600 identical and non-identical twins – demonstrated that surprisingly genetics plays a minor role in determining personal nutritional response and even identical twins can respond very differently to the same foods.Inflammation fuels the fire of most chronic diseases, and joining Dr. Holly to talk about that is Dr. Haya Al Khatib, one of the lead nutritionists in this study.