Optimizing maternal nutrition: The importance of a tailored approach

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dc.contributor.authorBrink, Lauren R.
dc.contributor.authorBender, Tonya M.
dc.contributor.authorDavies, Rosalind
dc.contributor.authorLuo, Hanqi
dc.contributor.authorMiketinas, Derek
dc.contributor.authorShah, Neil
dc.contributor.authorLoveridge, Nik
dc.contributor.authorGross, Gabriele
dc.contributor.authorFawkes, Neil
dc.creator.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5462-1396
dc.date.accessioned2023-03-13T18:19:42Z
dc.date.available2023-03-13T18:19:42Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.descriptionArticle originally published by Current Developments in Nutrition, 6(9), 6013008. Published online 2022. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzac118
dc.description.abstractImproving nutritional status during pregnancy is a global interest. Frequently, women either fail to meet or exceed nutrient recommendations. Current strategies to improve maternal nutrition focus on a “one-size-fits-all” approach and fail to consider individual factors that affect the mother’s overall nutritional status. The objectives of this review were to determine the importance of key nutrients for optimal maternal and fetal health, to explore to what extent current recommendations consider individual factors, and to explore novel strategies to close the gap between current guidelines and real-world challenges through more personalized approaches. This review intercalated different nutritional guidelines and recent scientific publications and research initiatives related to maternal nutrition. Based on that, an overview of current recommendations, challenges related to present approaches, and perspectives for future directions are described. Current guidelines are not optimally supporting adequate nutrient intake and health of expectant mothers and their offspring. Existing recommendations are not consistent and do not sufficiently take into account how interindividual variation leads to differences in nutrient status. Personalized nutrition offers women the opportunity to improve their health by using strategies that are tailored to their unique nutritional needs. Such strategies can include personalized supplementation, holistic lifestyle interventions, digital and application-based technologies, and dietary assessment through blood biomarker and genetic analysis. However, these approaches warrant further investigation and optimization. More personalized approaches have the potential to optimize mothers’ and their offspring’s health outcomes more appropriately to their nutritional needs before, during, and after pregnancy. Moving away from a generalized “one-size-fits-all” approach can be achieved through a variety of means. Future aims should be to provide supporting evidence to create customized subpopulation-based or individualized recommendations, improve nutrition education, and develop novel approaches to improve adherence to dietary and lifestyle interventions.en_US
dc.identifier.citationThis is a published version of an article that is available at https://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzac118. Recommended citation: Brink, L. R., Bender, T. M., Davies, R., Luo, H., Miketinas, D., Shah, N., Loveridge, N., Gross, G., & Fawkes, N. (2022). Optimizing maternal nutrition: The importance of a tailored approach. Current Developments in Nutrition, 6(9), 6013008. This item has been deposited in accordance with publisher copyright and licensing terms and with the author’s permission.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11274/14657
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzac118
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherOxford University Pressen_US
dc.rights.licenseCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.subjectPregnancyen_US
dc.subjectNutritionen_US
dc.subjectPersonalizationen_US
dc.subjectTailored approachen_US
dc.subjectSupplementsen_US
dc.titleOptimizing maternal nutrition: The importance of a tailored approachen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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