Itziar González: "Adapting nutrition to the genome could cure almost any disease"

Itziar González's professional career can only be understood from the need to find answers. He played all kinds of sports and decided to study physiotherapy to try to understand the reason behind his continuous injuries.. Since he did not find it, he was about to give up and go to study medicine. However, just at the right time, he heard in a course that diet could be the key to his problems.. In just a few weeks, the injuries and chronic pain that she attributed to training disappeared.

So, he wanted to continue finding answers to his questions and delved into biochemistry and nutrition until he reached nutrigenomics, the omics science that studies the alteration of genes through nutrients.. That is, the science that reprograms our genes through food. For her, the solution to all her questions: “Adapting nutrition to the genome could cure almost any disease,” says Itziar González in Buscando Vocaciones. Although he warns: “The ideal would be to have found the magical diet of eternal life, but it does not exist.”

Itziar González treats elite athletes and First Division footballers such as Navarro, Canales or Carvajal.

Yes, food heals and by the year 2028, barely five years from now, the nutrigenomics market is expected to exceed 1,200 million euros worldwide. But Itziar González has gone one step further, creating physiogenomics, which uses nutrigenomics to treat pathologies typical of physiotherapy.. Once again, the need to find answers was the engine of his desire for knowledge.. One of her children fell ill with acute leukemia, luckily already cured, and at that time, she spent sleepless nights trying to understand how the immune system works.. For example, psoriasis makes sprains easier, so it's the psoriasis that needs to be treated, not the joint.. And if, for example, you suffer from migraines, do not eat foods that contain or release histamine, such as orange juice, coffee or nuts.

«It is necessary to understand the body in its entirety, since there is nothing local. If a person has a headache, they have a problem throughout their body,” insists Itziar González, who, through word of mouth, began to collect followers, especially elite athletes.. This is the case of the soccer player Sergio Canales, his number one fan. After suffering three cruciate ligament tears, they thought he would never play again, but Itziar not only helped him get back on the field, but also helped him reach the highest level of his career.

“I have seen miracles every day in the more than twenty years that I have been working,” Itziar González is sincere. And he says: “The solution is always multidisciplinary, a single discipline will never give you the solution”. It only takes people who want to continue finding answers to the questions.

Like Itziar González, other great references in our society have left their testimonies, the lessons they have learned in their lives and in their profession, in Buscando Vocaciones, the project with which the European University seeks to inspire young people who are about to start their university stage, as well as those people who need a change in their job training.

Drawing the future from our present, Aitor Sánchez, dietitian, nutritionist and author of My limping diet, has already emphasized the importance of nutrition: “For a sustainable future, food has a fundamental role”. Meanwhile, Raquel Fernández, a physiotherapist at the Gregorio Marañón University Hospital, also opted to improve people's living conditions: “Physiotherapy achieves a better life for patients.” “Physiotherapists do not heal injuries, we heal people,” seconded Carlos J. García, Marc Márquez's physiotherapist.