FDSC 6260

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FDSC 6260
We Are What We Eat: Linking Food With Intestinal Functionality and Microbiome

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Learn how you can impact your overall health by balancing your gut health; how your intestinal functionality, and microbiome are affected by your diet, and how to improve normal gut function. Learn how various chronic conditions and dietary deficiencies (as iron and zinc) may improve the gut digestive and absorptive surface (Brush Border Membrane) functionality and health promoting microbiome. In this course you will discuss the literature and learn that the microbiome and intestinal functionality play an important role in maintaining normal gut function, digesting certain nutrients, early life development, behavior and disorders like irritable bowel syndrome, mineral/vitamin deficiencies, obesity and diabetes.


Prerequisites general microbiology (e.g. BIOMI 2900). Recommended prerequisites: FDSC 1500 and FDSC 2000.

Last 1 Terms Offered 2025SP

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FDSC 4260

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  3347 FDSC 6260   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to: juniors and seniors.