surfsteve wrote:I'd rather have personalized nutrition than personalized medicine.
I wonder how they get away with looking at a person's DNA and not the person and calling it personalized medicine.
First of all, the term personalized medicine has been in use for close to two decades and it was a term coined by academics long before any companies became interested in this sort of analysis and service. A person's DNA is in many ways the essence of a person. There is really nothing more personal (from a medical point of view anyways) than your DNA! As for the nutrition concern, that has been discussed at great length along with exercise routines. So far there's not a lot of useful info, but a lot of interest has been expressed in these areas by the 23andme.com community.