Sports Nutrition Teaching Series Part 5/6: Preventing & Treating Brain-Related Injuries

Name: Sports Nutrition Teaching Series Part 5/6: Preventing & Treating Brain-Related Injuries
Start: 2024-11-12T17:30:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-12T19:00:00+00:00

12th Nov 2024

5:30 - 7:00pm (GMT)

Sport and exercise medicine

12th Nov 2024

5:30 - 7:00pm (GMT)

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Description

This teaching series will cover the role of nutritional interventions in sports-related goals, including muscle hypertrophy, sports performance, healthy weight loss, preventing muscle atrophy, preventing & treating injuries to the brain and bones, and avoiding relative energy deficiency syndrome (RED-S).

Slides & certificates will be sent out after each tutorial!

Summary

Tutorial 5/6

This online session will address nutritional strategies for preventing and treating brain-related injuries. As contact sports are a big risk factor for sub-concussive and concussive brain trauma, this tutorial will discuss some of the major nutrients that may provide a protective benefit. A critical analysis of a scientific study will also be covered.

Slides & certificates will be sent out after each tutorial!

Learning objectives

To understand the basic pathophysiology of mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBIs)
To be able to apply nutritional supplementation strategies to prevent and/or treat mTBIs
To be able to critically analyse a scientific paper

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