Metabolic health as a foundation for lifelong wellbeing
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Understanding metabolic function is key to designing solutions for healthy ageing. Post-meal metabolic responses, such as glucose, insulin, and lipid handling, are early indicators of chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Strengthening metabolic resilience from early adulthood offers an opportunity to influence health trajectories and drive innovations that optimise energy regulation and nutrient processing.
This session will explore findings from the ZOE PREDICT programme, focusing on individual variability in responses to food. We will examine how factors like the gut microbiome, meal composition, sleep, and lifestyle shape metabolic health. Using emerging science and data, we will highlight how personalised approaches can improve long-term health and support healthier ageing.
Association Partner: ESPM
The European Society of Preventive Medicine (ESPM) focuses on prevention, healthy ageing and longevity science across the life course, working with multiple stakeholders at the intersection of basic research, clinical medicine, education and public health policy. ESPM is an Oxford based not-for-profit organization established to promote the implementation of prediction and prevention of age-related noncommunicable diseases and to facilitate research to advance the field of preventive, predictive, personalised and participatory medicine.
