THE BENEFITS OF CUSTOMIZED DNA DIRECTED NUTRITION TO BALANCE THE BRAIN REWARD CIRCUITRY AND REDUCE ADDICTIVE

Kenneth Blum1, B W Downs2, Kristina Dushaj3

  • 1Department of Psychiatry & McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA; Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Clinical Neurology, PATH Foundation NY, New York, NY, USA; Human Integrated Services Unit, University of Vermont Centre for Clinical & Translational Science, College of Medicine, Burlington, VT, USA; Division of Addiction Services, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC., North Kingstown, RI, USA; Division of Neuroscience-based Therapy, Summit Estate Recovery Center, Los Gatos, CA, USA; The Shores Treatment & Recovery, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA; Department of Precision Medicine, IGENE, LLC., Austin, TX, USA; Division of Nutrigenomics, LaVitaRDS, Draper, UT, USA; Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, HUNGARY.

Precision Medicine
|January 10, 2017
PubMed

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