Method of nutritional therapy

Claim 1

A method for treating a subject for a nutritional disorder, comprising: measuring in the subject the rate of a selected intracellular metabolic process; for the selected intracellular metabolic process, identifying a set of primary nutrients based on a multivariate statistical analysis of a population of normal study subjects analogous to the subject to be treated; measuring each of the subject's primary nutrients and determining which is present at an abnormal level based on normal levels identified for the study population; for each of the subject's primary nutrients which is present at an abnormal level, identifying a set of secondary nutrients based on the normal set of secondary nutrients in the study population determined by applying multivariate statistical analysis for each of the primary nutrients in the study population and producing for each secondary nutrient a partial regression coefficient having a positive or negative sign; and administering to the subject an effective amount of a nutrient composition comprising each of the identified secondary nutrients, wherein the amount of each secondary nutrient is determined according to the following formula: [F]=A[B]+[B] where "[F]" is the final concentration in nanomoles per milliliter of the secondary nutrient in the nutrient composition; where "A" equals the partial regression coefficient of the secondary nutrient divided by the sum of the coefficients of all the secondary nutrients, disregarding their signs, such sum being expressed as a positive number; and where "[B]" is the normal extracellular concentration of the secondary nutrient in the study population expressed in nanomoles per milliliter.

Claim 2

A method for treating a subject for a nutritional disorder, comprising: measuring in the subject the rate of a selected intracellular metabolic process; for the selected intracellular metabolic process, identifying a set of primary nutrients based on a multivariate statistical analysis of a population of normal study subjects analogous to the subject to be treated; measuring each of the subject's primary nutrients and determining which is present at an abnormal level based on normal levels identified for the study population; for each of the subject's primary nutrients which is present at an abnormal level, identifying a set of secondary nutrients based on the normal set of secondary nutrients in the study population determined by applying multivariate statistical analysis for each of the primary nutrients in the study population and producing for each secondary nutrient a partial regression coefficient having a positive or negative sign; and administering to the subject an effective amount of a nutrient composition comprising each of the identified secondary nutrients, wherein the amount of each secondary nutrient is determined according to the following formula: [F]=A[B]+[B] where "[F]" is the final concentration in nanomoles per milliliter of the secondary nutrient in the nutrient composition; where "A" equals the partial regression coefficient of the secondary nutrient divided by the sum of the coefficients of all the secondary nutrients, disregarding their signs, such sum being expressed as a positive number; and where "[B]" is the normal extracellular concentration of the secondary nutrient in the study population expressed in nanomoles per milliliter.