Nutrition Biomarkers

nutrition biomarkes, we want the specific measure to be an indication of actual nutrient intake. And there's a number of factors that are really required to be met in order for a bio marker to be a good nutrition bio marker. One acins already mentioned is sensitivity. Want it to actually correlate with dietary intake. So as an example, saturated faty acids are not good bio markers of dietary saturated fat in take because we can synthesize those faty acids internally and also create them from conversion of carbohydrate. By o availability, you don't want something to undergo extensive metabolism in order to reflect the nutrient of interest. It could add up to 90 minutes of life but then they stay into circulation