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March 2020
Precision (Personalized) Nutrition: Understanding Metabolic Heterogeneity February 28, 2020 –People differ in their requirements for and responses to nutrients and bioactive molecules in the diet. Many inputs contribute to metabolic heterogeneity (including variations...
Precision (Personalized) Nutrition: Understanding Metabolic Heterogeneity
February 24, 2020 -People differ in their requirements for and responses to nutrients and bioactive molecules in the diet. Many inputs contribute to metabolic heterogeneity (including variations in genetics, epigenetics, microbiome, lifestyle, diet intake, and environmental exposure).
January AFL Program Recap: “Genes and Individual Response to Nutrients in Bone Health”
January 22, 2020 – If you missed January’s Appetite for Life presentation by Saroja Voruganti, PhD, you can catch up. Click through to this post and watch the entire program on video. The live presentation took place at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College in Kannapolis on Thursday, January 16, 2020.
Herman Freeman III
Research Technician, Sumner LabMr. Freeman joined the NRI as a research technician in the Sumner Lab in October 2019. He is learning the foundations of, and expanding his knowledge of, metabolomics research and how it is applied in fields today. He works...
Effect of Egg Ingestion on trimethylamine-N-oxide Production in Humans: A Randomized, Controlled, Dose-Response Study
Carolyn A Miller 1, Karen D Corbin 1, Kerry-Ann da Costa 1, Shucha Zhang 1, Xueqing Zhao 1, Joseph A Galanko 1, Tondra Blevins 1, Brian J Bennett 1, Annalouise O’Connor 1, Steven H Zeisel 1
Microbiota-Dependent Metabolite Trimethylamine N-Oxide and Coronary Artery Calcium in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study (CARDIA)
Katie A Meyer 1, Thomas Z Benton 2, Brian J Bennett 3, David R Jacobs Jr 4, Donald M Lloyd-Jones 5, Myron D Gross 6, J Jeffrey Carr 7, Penny Gordon-Larsen 8, Steven H Zeisel 9
Trimethylamine N-Oxide, the Microbiome, and Heart and Kidney Disease
Steven H Zeisel 1, Manya Warrier 1
Protein Intake at Twice the RDA in Older Men Increases Circulatory Concentrations of the Microbiome Metabolite Trimethylamine-N-Oxide (TMAO).
Mitchell SM1, Milan AM2,3, Mitchell CJ4,5, Gillies NA6, D’Souza RF7,8, Zeng N9, Ramzan F10, Sharma P11, Knowles SO12, Roy NC13,14,15, Sjödin A16, Wagner KH17, Zeisel SH18, Cameron-Smith D19,20,21.
Melissa Shaffer
Social/Clinical Research Assistant, Cheatham Lab Melissa Shaffer joined the Nutrition Research Institute in January of 2020 as a research assistant in Dr. Cheatham’s Nutrition and Cognition Lab. In 2015 she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Bryan...