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Dr. Lavanya Reddivari discusses her research on food as health and its implications for chronic illnesses.

Food is health is a growing conversation across the agbioscience landscape and research is moving the conceptual to tangible solutions. Dr. Lavanya Reddivari from Purdue University joins this week to talk groundbreaking food science research, advancing discovery through the innovation pipeline and how her family roots are making something old new again. Highlights include: A high level overview of her research at Purdue and its impact on food is health How Lavanya views food is health from a modern, scientific research perspective Her team’s recent findings of a compound in blueberries that aids people with digestive diseases; the discovery process and how it informed follow up Nutrition as a support function for chronic illnesses that are critically impacting the U.S. population and her team’s “aha” moment where the gut microbiome was the foundation to overall health A grant Lavanya’s team received through the Heartland Children’s Nutrition Collaborative and what it has enabled their research to do How the right partnerships have enabled them to move through different stages of their exploration Lavanya’s family roots and how this story is personal for her Applying her team’s…

People in this episode

Guest: Dr. Lavanya Reddivari

Topics covered

• food is health
• agbioscience
• research
• nutrition
• gut microbiome
• partnerships
• chronic illnesses

Keywords

• food is health
• Purdue University
• nutrition
• gut microbiome
• chronic illnesses
• blueberries
• research partnerships

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Purdue University, Heartland Children’s Nutrition Collaborative

Places: Indiana, U.S.

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