Preventing Cancer: Genetic Testing for Personalized Nutrition in People at Elevated Risk

Written By BRCAinBC

Our guest speaker was Dr. Ahmed El-Sohemy, Professor at the University of Toronto and Canada Research Chair in Nutrigenomics. He is also the Founder & Chief Science Officer of Nutrigenomix Inc. Dr. El-Sohemy has over 200 publications and has given more than 300 talks worldwide.

Dr. El-Sohemy discussed how nutrition interacts with our genes and provided nutritional advice for BRCA carriers to reduce cancer risk. He has published studies with Dr. Steven Narod on gene-diet interactions in BRCA carriers.

You can find the recording here.

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