中医体质学在现代营养学中的应用展望

Prospection about Application of Constitutional Study of Chinese Medicine in Nutrition

随着分子生物学和基因工程技术的飞速发展,营养学研究已经进入了一个新的时代——"营养基因组学"时代。营养学研究逐渐趋向个体化。但是,如何低成本实现营养的个体化仍是摆在人们面前的一大难题。中医体质学的现代研究表明,相同的体质具有相似的基因结构和(或)基因表达,因此,只需了解9种体质的基因构成和代谢类型的不同,就可以给所有人制定出个体化的营养方案,从而以较低的成本达到个体化营养的目的。将就如何将中医体质辨识融入现代营养学以实现个体化营养予以简要探讨。

With the rapid development of molecularbiology and the technologies of gene engineering, the nutrition research stepped into a new era ＂ the Era of nutrigenomics＂. The study on nutrition has gradully becoming more and more individualized. However, the most difficult thing we face is how to lower the cost of individualized nutrition. The modem study on the constitutional study of Chinese medicine has indicated that the same kind of constitution has similar genetic background and/or gene expression. Therefore, the individualized nutrition plan can be worked out if the genetic and metabolic types of each of the nine constitutions. In the way, we can achieve the goal of individualized nutuition. Now to apply the reeognization of the nine constitutions into modern nutrition is to be briefly discussed in this paper for the purpose of achieving individualized nutrition.