Nutritional Neuroscience

What is Nutritional Neuroscience?

Nutritional neuroscience is the scientific discipline centred on the impact of nutrition and dietary components on brain health.

Considering that our brain is always “on”, from managing thoughts, movements, heartbeat, digestion, breathing and more – it works 24/7, even when we are asleep. This means that the constant supply of fuel to the brain, which comes from the foods we consume – have direct impact to the structure and function of our brain. 1

Nutrition mechanisms and their effects can affect almost every facet of the brain functioning throughout the life cycle. As many aspects of nutrition, from entire diets to specific nutrients, affect brain structure and function, therefore have profound implications for mental health, degenerative diseases and understanding the nature of healthy brain aging. 2

Resource:

  1. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog
  2. Dauncey MJ. New insights into nutrition and cognitive neuroscience: Symposium on ‘Early nutrition and later disease: current concepts, research and implications.’ Proceedings of the Nutrition Society. 2009;68(4):408-415. doi:10.1017/S0029665109990188

Promotion of Healthy Longevity and Vitality

Advocating wellness and healthy longevity.

Bio-individuality

Acknowledgement on the fact that there are no one-size-fits-all prescriptions for everyone in health and nutrition, respecting biochemical uniqueness is every individual.

Patient Centred and Proactive Health Care

A therapeutics environment that encourages active participation from patients and advocates proactive health care.

Mind, Body, and Spirit

An appreciation that vitality, mental and physical health are essential for human spirit. 3

Whole Body Approach to Health

An approach to healthcare that views the body as an interconnected system, where imbalances in one area may affect multiple biological systems. 2

Science-based, systems-biology-based approach

A science-based, systems-biology based approach of care that appreciate the complexity of human’s health, helping to determine how and why dis-ease occurs.

An operating system that permits the application of vast network of biological concepts, shifting from a disease-centric model to a systems biology-centric model of care. 1