Sponsored Satellite Program: Nutrition, Immunosenescence and Infectious Disease: An Overview of the Scientific Evidence on Micronutrients and Bioactives

Sponsored By: GlaxoSmithKline 

Consumers are increasingly interested in understanding how to optimize their health and strengthen their immune system with nutrition especially as a result of the current pandemic. Several factors can depress the immune system, including older age, as the body becomes less efficient in making immune cells that are required to fight off an infection. Collectively, this condition termed “immunosensecence”, can lead to a pro-inflammatory state called inflamm-aging. This coupled with poor diet and malnutrition, which can occur at any age, can increase the risk for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections (URTIs) and other infectious diseases.

A review of the current scientific literature shows that several bioactive ingredients including prebiotics, probiotics, synbiotics and others have promising immune health benefits. Bioactives, are complex ingredients with multiple mechanisms of action (MOAs), however, their effects are dependent upon the environment of the user. Therefore, the purpose of this session is to provide an overview of immunosensecence and the function of micronutrients in healthy immunity. A discussion on bioactive ingredients and the scientific evidence behind them will also be covered.

This session will conclude with a discussion on the role of nutritional ingredients in infectious disease and will conclude by highlighting emerging areas for
future research.

This Sponsored Satellite Program was originally presented at NUTRITION 2021 LIVE ONLINE.

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the role that micronutrients play in immunity and describe factors that suppress the immune system
  • Identify bioactive ingredients with an immune health benefit and describe their various mechanisms of action and effective dose from clinical studies
  • Review the role of vitamins, minerals and bioactives in relationship to infectious disease and discuss future research directions for nutrition and immune health

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 Attendance

    Learners are eligible to download a Certificate of Attendance upon activity completion. A Certificate of Attendance confirms the learner has completed the activity and does not confer any continuing education credit to the learner from ASN.

Course opens: 
04/13/2023
Course expires: 
06/30/2024
Cost:
$0.00
Rating: 
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This Sponsored Satellite Program includes the following presentations:

  • Introduction
  • An Overview of the Scientific Evidence on Micronutrients and Bioactives
  • Immunosensecence and Aging 
  • Bioactive ingredients and Gut-Mediated Immune Health
  • The Role of Nutrition Ingredients in Infectious Disease - Do They Make a Difference? 
  • Panel Discussion

Chair:  Philip C. Calder, PhD – Professor of Nutritional Immunology, University of Southampton

Speaker:  Renee Korczak, PhD, RDN, CSSD – Principal Scientist, Medical Affairs, GSK Consumer Healthcare

Speaker:  Simin N. Meydani, D.V.M., PhD – Senior Scientist & Director Nutritional Immunology Lab , Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University

Speaker:  Heather Zwickey, PhD – Department Chair, Health Sciences Professor and Senior Investigator, National University of Natural Medicine

Speaker:  Charles B. Stephensen, PhD – Research Leader, USDA

Available Credit

  • 1.50 Attendance

    Learners are eligible to download a Certificate of Attendance upon activity completion. A Certificate of Attendance confirms the learner has completed the activity and does not confer any continuing education credit to the learner from ASN.

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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