Fixing Metabolic Health

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Date 09 Oct 2023
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Location Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue Click to open location details

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Topic Speaker Slides Recording

Welcome and introduction

Recording Natalie Kelly

THEME I: Introduction to metabolic disease

What is Metabolic Health? Financial burden and impact of metabolic ill-health

Slides John Schoonbee

Recording John Schoonbee

Nutritional guidelines and their impact on Metabolic Health

Slides Nina Teicholz

Recording Nina Teicholz

Evidence on dietary saturated and total fat

Slides Arne Astrup

Recording Arne Astrup

Seed oils – history and mechanisms

Slides Nina Teicholz

Recording Nina Teicholz

Beyond CVD - mechanisms linking hyperinsulinemia to (most) NCDs

Slides Benjamin T. Bikman

Recording Benjamin T. Bikman

Coffee break

THEME II: Current interventions and challenges for improving metabolic health

Case studies (Moderated by John Schoonbee)
Diabetes & Metabolic Health Programs: A selection of successful examples

Recording case studies

Panel discussion (Moderated by Diana Rancourt)
Behaviour change and sustainability (energy, motivation) of nutritional and lifestyle interventions, including mechanisms of appetite regulation

Recording panel discussion

Lunch break

THEME III: Metabolic psychiatry – a new frontier

A mother’s story

Recording Jan Ellison Baszucki

Current treatment paradigm/state of affairs as it relates to psychiatry

Recording Christopher M. Palmer

Metabolic Psychiatry: A conceptual framework and hope

Recording Shebani Sethi

The underlying mechanisms linking metabolic health to mental health
Part 1: Epilepsy and Bipolar Disorder
Part 2: Type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease

Coffee break

Case Evidence
Synopsis of Metabolic Psychiatry intervention trials and outcomes

Panel discussion (Moderated by Debbie Smith)
Could a metabolic (also) approach become a standard of care in psychiatry, and what will it take?

Panel discussion recording

Closing remarks 

End of event

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Target audience

This conference will connect networks of nutrition research and practice with thought leaders and decision makers from business and government. Attendees include nutrition researchers and academics, molecular biologists, nutritionists and clinicians focusing on metabolic health, executives of health organisations, practitioners of metabolic health intervention programs, regulators and lawmakers in health and nutrition, as well as re/insurance professionals and medical doctors..

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