(Press-News.org) Nutrition research is pointing to ways that nutrients or diets may lessen the effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI), raising the possibility that the U.S. Department of Defense might be able to use nutritional approaches to help personnel who receive a TBI. Nutrition and Traumatic Brain Injury: Improving Acute and Subacute Health Outcomes in Military Personnel, a new report from the Institute of Medicine, recommends which nutritional approaches DOD should adopt and priorities for further research into nutrients and diets that show promise for being effective in providing resilience or treating the immediate and near-term effects of brain injury, particularly TBI.
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Advance copies of the report will be available to reporters only beginning at 9 a.m. EDT Tuesday, April 19. The report is embargoed until 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday, April 20. To obtain a copy or arrange interviews with members of the committee that wrote the report, reporters should contact the Office of News and Public Information; tel. 202-334-2138 or e-mail news@nas.edu.
TBI Therapy and Nutrition: IOM report releases April 20
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