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The UNC Nutrition Research Institute, a unit of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is leading research in precision nutrition by understanding how genetics, environment and the gut microbiome affect an individual's requirements for and responses to nutrients. Each of us is metabolically unique. The NRI is dedicated to finding out how these differences affect an individual's health so that current one-size-fits-all dietary guidelines can be replaced with customized nutritional recommendations and actions to improve a person's health and quality of life. Sixteen faculty principal investigators and their research teams explore nutrition-related solutions to some of today's pressing health issues related to gene-environment interactions, cancer, obesity, and brain development and cognitive function.