Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine - NUS MED

🔬 Precision Nutrition: Moving Beyond One-Size-Fits-All

What if nutrition advice could be tailored as uniquely as you?

Our MSc in Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine students at NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine recently explored this through our Precision Nutrition module, led by expert Prof. Iris Shai.

💡 A key takeaway?
Healthcare is shifting from one-size-fits-all to personalised, data-driven nutrition grounded in science.

Here’s what they dived into:

✨ Personalised vs population-based nutrition
✨ How digestion & metabolism shape individual responses
✨ Hormones, body fat & metabolic health
✨ The gut microbiome and its powerful role
✨ Nutrigenetics & how our DNA interacts with diet
✨ Omics (metabolomics & proteomics) in nutrition research
✨ How to design and interpret nutrition RCTs

👏 A big thank you to Prof. Iris Shai for an inspiring and insightful module.

Our students truly enjoyed the experience and gained valuable knowledge that will shape their future in precision and preventive healthcare.

⏳ 𝟏 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨

Ready to lead change in healthcare?

Join clinicians, dietitians, researchers, health coaches, and public health professionals driving the future of preventive medicine.

Learn from globally recognised faculty and collaborate across disciplines to improve health outcomes.

📅 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤 — 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟑𝟏 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡
🌿 Apply now: https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/graduatestudies/education/msc-in-nutrition-and-lifestyle-medicine/

⏳ 𝟐 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨

Looking to tailor your learning journey?

The MSc in Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine offers flexibility to shape your experience:

✔️ Cross-register up to 2 electives from the School of Public Health (SPH) and the Department of Food Science & Technology (FST)
✔️ Deepen your chosen area of interest through a two-semester Capstone Project aligned with your career goals
✔️ Work with interdisciplinary mentors across NUS and global partners

Build focused expertise that supports your long-term professional pathway.

📅 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟑𝟏 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡
🌿 Apply now: https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/graduatestudies/education/msc-in-nutrition-and-lifestyle-medicine/

⏳ 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐆𝐨

By 2050, 2.1 billion people globally will be over 60. Preventive health has never been more urgent.

The MSc in Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine at NUS Medicine equips professionals with evidence-based strategies that can reduce non-communicable disease risk by up to 80%.

Be part of the global shift toward healthy ageing and sustainable healthcare.

📅 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟑𝟏 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡
🌿 Apply now: https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/graduatestudies/education/msc-in-nutrition-and-lifestyle-medicine/

🌏 Bending the Curve of Global Burden of Disease

At the launch of the NUS–IHME Global Burden of Disease Research Centre, GloW co-organised a plenary on the powerful role of nutrition and lifestyle in shaping the health of nations.

Led by our MSc Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine Programme Director Professor Cuilin Zhang and Senior Advisor Professor Jeya Henry, the session brought together global experts to highlight one clear message:

🥗 Nutrition and lifestyle are foundational to disease prevention
👶 A life-course approach is key to long-term impact
🌏 Early-life health shapes the future burden of disease

This reflects exactly what we stand for in Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine — translating science into real-world, population-level change.

Proud to see our programme leadership contributing to regional and global health dialogue. 💚