GSN 614 - Advanced Nutritional Biochemistry

Credit(s): 3.00

Learn cutting-edge nutritional biochemistry and systems medicine concepts integrated with clinical nutrition knowledge, and explore the unifying metabolic processes that promote health or cause inflammation, illness and death. Study the interrelationships among the leading chronic diseases and diet composition, genomic, and epigenetic factors influencing nutrition status. Advanced understanding of various disease mechanisms, the dysregulation of glucose, fatty acid, protein, and micronutrient metabolism that promotes chronic activation of the inflammatory pathways, oxidative stress, and the contribution to cognitive decline. Relate the biochemical basis of disease to proactive and preventive nutritional interventions. Prerequisite(s): GSN 514 or GSNO 514 , or equivalent.