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Imbibe CCO on Personalized Nutrition and the Focus on the Other 0.1%

Posted: December 4, 2024
In: In the Media

Andy Dratt, chief commercial officer and executive vice president for Imbibe, talks about how wearable devices may advance personalized nutrition.

All humans have DNA that are about 99.9% identical, said Kantha Shelke, PhD, founder of Corvus Blue, a food science and consumer packaged goods development firm. Yet vast differences are found among humans in the other 0.1% of their DNA, enough to create a need for personalized nutrition.

Even with identical twins, blood sugar may shoot up after one eats an apple, Shelke said, and blood sugar may stay lower after the other twin eats an apple.

Read the full article on Food Business News.

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