Cross-Cutting

Neurodegenerative Disease (e.g. MS, Parkinson's disease)

Lifestyle Medicine

Symposium

(624827) Restoring function through nutrition: making the diet-metabolic-brain connection

Presenter(s)

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  Rani Polak, MD

  Program Director CHEF Coaching
  Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
  Charleston, Massachusetts
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  Elena Philippou, PhD, RD

  Assistant Professor Nutrition-Dietetics
  University of Nicosia, Cyprus
  Strovolos, Nicosia

Non-presenting author(s)

• RK

  Robert Krikorian, PhD

  Director, Cognitive Aging Program
  University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center
  Cincinnati, Ohio

Non-presenting Author(s)

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  Sonya Kim, PhD, CRC, BCB

  Assistant Professor and Research Scientist
  NYU School of Medicine Department of Neurology and Department of Rehabilitation
  New York City, New York

Non-presenting author(s)

• PS

  Patrick Sullivan, PhD

  Endowed Chair in the Spinal Cord & Brain Injury Research Center
  University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center.
  Lexington, New York
• BB

  Britt Burton-freeman, PhD

  Director, Center for Nutrition Research
  Institute for Food Safety and Health
  Bedford Park, Illinois

Nutrition is a critical feature in maintenance of flexible healthy physiology that can resist damage from insult and maintain function. In aging and in injury, chronic and acute insults threaten cellular damage and function. Timely strategic nutritional therapies may forestall permanent dysfunction and aid in restoring function. Polyphenol supplementation and use of ketogenic diets are gaining traction among scientists, therapist and the lay public for their health benefits. This session will provide insight to the role of nutrition to restore metabolic flexibility and related cognitive function.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss the role of nutrition in restoring cognitive function
• Describe the connection between diet, metabolic flexibility, cognitive function using age and injury models
• Assess the health benefits of polyphenol supplementation and use of ketogenic diets
• Discuss the evidence relating specific dietary patterns and cognitive function and decline.