The FDA approval for the twice-daily pill comes just three months after the publication of positive results of a clinical trial, where it was compared against a placebo.
The pandemic has upended many of the rhythms and routines in our lives, our eating patterns included. Some changes are positive while others not so much.
Speaker: Felice Jaka, PhD
Professor Felice Jacka is Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University. She is also founder and president of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research(ISNPR) and immediate past president of the Australian Alliance for the Prevention of Mental Disorders. She has been responsible for the development of a highly innovative field of research establishing diet and nutrition as of importance to common mental disorders. Her recent research, which focuses on the links between diet, gut health, and mental and brain health.
If you would like to participate in the Q & A with Dr. Jacka, please contact Shona.Sladyk@northernvermont.edu for the zoom link.
Before Covid, before our daily lives changed so dramatically, our immune system was not something most of us gave much serious thought to — while many people would express the desire for a trimmer waist, for example, or ‘to get healthier’, few would talk specifically about getting their immune system into shape.
But there’s no doubt that being able to fight off infection and disease has taken on a new and urgent significance, with Covid sweeping the planet.
But it’s not just Covid: a fully functioning immune system is all that stands between us and dangerous and life-threaten- ing illnesses.