Victoria Wood, a nutritionist & specialist in Functional Medicine prepared and presented these materials on links between Nutrition and PN

• <PresentationPDF>*
• Supporting Resources: lists of testing resources and anti-oxidant foods <PDF>
• Examples of recent studies linking nutrition to PN <PDF>
• How drugs affect nutrition levels, though not specific to PN <PDF>
• The Medical Symptoms Questionnaire (MSQ): a tool used to evaluate patients.<PDF>

Research typically finds little evidence of benefit from supplements except when blood tests show specific deficits. But Ms. Woods, working with various doctors, looks at details of a person’s diet and health history and believes there is a role for supplements customized for the patient. She emphasized that not all supplements are well made and some manufacturers are better than others.