Human and Nutrient Metabolism

Catalog description

This course will focus on human nutrition and metabolism with an emphasis on the functional and regulatory roles of macronutrients and micronutrients. Students will be guided through an exploration of recent scientific literature in the areas of nutrition and biochemistry and the ways one informs the other. Finally, we will consider how several human diseases arise from alterations in metabolic pathways, and we will review papers in the scientific literature on several diseases linked to altered metabolism.