Diets and Genes: Euphenic Nutrition

Abstract

Nature (genes) will not thrive (mature and reproduce) without nurture (diet). Biologic systems require an input of energy, elements and molecules to sustain function, hyperplasia, hypertrophy and renewal. Differentiation of species has been accompanied by specialization of function. Most differentiated organisms cannot synthesize certain nutrients (materials) for their own use, and the environment must provide them. Such nutrients are called "essential," and they reflect genetic limitations in the organism. Man is no exception to these generalities relating nature to nurture.Once separated from the placenta, the new member of the human species has become a biologic individual; nutritional needs must . . .