Free to ASN members!

Click the 'Register' tab to register! 

This webinar will explore the evolution of metabolic flexibility as a concept and its growing relevance to nutrition and metabolic health. This webinar will review key approaches to measuring metabolic flexibility and highlight recent findings across the lifespan, from pediatrics and adolescence to adulthood. Speakers Kathryn Whyte (UAB) and Stephanie Chung (NIH/NIDDK) will discuss emerging evidence linking metabolic flexibility to cardiometabolic disease risk. Together, these insights will provide a timely perspective on how metabolic flexibility informs our understanding of health and disease.

Organized by ASN's Energy and Macronutrient Metabolism RIS

Speakers

Kathryn Whyte, PhD
University of Alabama-Birmingham     

Stephanie Chung, MBBS
National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

Learning Objectives

1. Describe the conceptual framework of metabolic flexibility and its relevance to human energy metabolism
2. Compare commonly used methods for assessing metabolic flexibility and identify their strengths and limitations
3. Summarize current evidence on metabolic flexibility across the lifespan, including data from pediatric, adolescent, and adult populations
4. Explain the relationships between metabolic flexibility and cardiometabolic disease risk based on recent and emerging research