I can't say I understand how it works, or its implications, but I am intrigued by this story about European scientists working on metabolic typing, which the story says could lead to personalized nutrition.

That just sounds right to me, to have nutritional advice tailored to individuals. It is unarguable that people react differently to foods, beginning with my favorite examples, nuts and shellfish, which most people enjoy safely and some people suffer anaphylactic shock.

My experience tells me that I react to refined foods, especially refined sugars and grains, especially after a period of abstinence. My skin can get clammy, I can feel my heart race, I can get flighty and/or moody, and experience other effects. Oh, and I almost always want to eat more of them, once I've had some. Just like peanuts to some, I have learned I'm better off — happier, more secure — when I forgo them.

Any science that helps people to know what boosts their nutrition and what they should avoid is an advance in health to me.

Is this stuff, which encompasses nutrigenomics and nutrigenetics and was reported in the journal Metabolomics via Nutraingredients-USA.com, going to do that? Hell if I know. I don't know what any of those three words mean.