personalized nutrition

[gusl]

I'm very impressed with the common-sense idea of testing your blood in order to create a personalized diet.

But unfortunately, Dr Greg Tefft's sites (1 2 3) have an unhealthily high level of BS.

It's not even clear what the "Total Body Chemistry Test kit" is! Is it a DIY pee-in-a-cup chemistry set?

In any case, this got me interested in what machine learning can offer to the problem of inferring which diets lead to which diseases. Clinical data is probably far from being standardized, with all kinds of hidden biases and incomplete data. But even then, computers should be better than humans at analyzing this data, and machine learning has already explicitly dealt with several of these problems (e.g. learning from unlabelled data)! Machine Learning experts are the people who are good at induction, because their methods are always getting evaluated and improved (unlike statisticians, AFAIK)!
So unlike Dr. Tefft, I'm skeptical of this "best scientific knowledge".

Do nutritionists offer similar tests?

This is an area I'd very much like to work on.

Comments

[tinymammoth.livejournal.com]

Check out Great Smokies Diagnostic Lab's site. Their tests are actual science and have been very helpful to me. For example, I discovered that I don't retain the minerals chromium and vanadium, and to attain normal levels I have to take high doses. It turns out these minerals are involved in blood sugar regulation, and since I started on the minerals my blood sugar issues have gone away entirely. Then I learned that many people in my family have diabetes.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

Thanks.

Why did you get these tests? did you have a specific reason? was it expensive?

I'd like to get a general one, just to see how I could improve my diet in general.