GSN 514 - Nutritional Biochemistry

Credit(s): 3.00

Learn the molecular, biochemical, and metabolic characteristics of food’s dietary nutrients and bioactive compounds, emphasizing their relationships and contributions to health and disease. Gain the core knowledge and key concepts related to the science of human nutrition, gut microbiota and the gut-brain axis, including enzyme kinetics, bioenergetics, metabolic pathways, genomics, free radical regulation, inflammatory pathways, fluid and electrolyte balance, acid-base balance, xenobiotics, heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, persistent organic pollutants, their affect and the regulation of metabolism in different physiologic states.