NRG

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Emerging evidence suggests that what we once thought were purely neurological diseases are actually based in metabolic deficits. For example, Alzheimer's is now being called Type 3 diabetes since the insulin resistance/deficiency you see in diabetes plays a role in the neurodegeneration you see in Alzheimer's. Changes to dietary habits have the ability to target the source of this problem. In the case of insulin resistance, the ketogenic diet can provide an alternative metabolic pathway to glucose-based energy extraction, which is inaccessible to insulin-resistant neurons.

While we know that diet is a powerful mechanism for promoting health, there are hardly any systematic, personalized methods for delivering dietary recommendations. To address this problem, our team developed NRG — a machine learning algorithm that predicts the health status of your brain based on your lifestyle and diet. By training on neuroimaging data of people with a variety of diets and health statuses, NRG classifies whether your current diet is promoting healthy brain function.

Our application can be used by nutritionists, physicians, and dietitians to provide brain-boosting dietary recommendations, potentially preventing the onset of neurological diseases rooted in inefficient energy extraction before they happen. Not only is our approach unique, as it examines the impact of nutrition on neural structure and function, but also takes us a step closer to making diet-based treatments the norm.

Built With

• machine-learning
• python
• scikit-learn
• streamlit