Spring Lecture: Marian Flaxman, Food as Medicine—the Microbiome and How it Impacts All Aspects of Our Well-Being

Marian Flaxman, Food as Medicine—the Microbiome and How it Impacts All Aspects of Our Well-Being
May 8
1:30 PM
In-Person at OLLI

Marian Flaxman is the Communications and Advocacy Lead and host of Conversations from the Precision Nutrition Kitchen at the Cornell Joan Klein Jacobs Center for Precision Nutrition and Health. Inspired by her childhood experience with obesity and her daughter’s severe food allergies, she has dedicated nearly two decades to advancing nutrition and health policy. After a decade in natural food industry management, she studied public health at American University and earned an MS in Biomedical Science Policy and Advocacy from Georgetown University School of Medicine, focusing on the gut microbiome and chronic disease prevention. She continues her work in Washington, DC, championing microbiome science and “food as medicine” policy, inspired daily by her three daughters.

Reservations are required to attend in-person lectures. In-person lectures will be held in the Spring Valley Building, 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW, in Room A on the First Floor. Registration for the above lecture will open here at 10:00 AM on the Friday prior to the lecture. The direct registration link will also be included in the Friday newsletter the week prior. You must have an OLLI account to register. If you do not have one, you can create an account when going to register. Each registrant may reserve up to two seats. Your name must be on the list of registrants to enter the lecture and you must be in your seat five minutes before the lecture starts to guarantee your seat.