You’re Not Just What You Eat: Demystifying Metabolism, Obesity, and Diabetes (In-person)
Fall (9 - 13 hours) | Registration opens 7/29/2025 12:00 AM EDT
This course will provide the conceptual basis for understanding the use and storage of nutrients in human health. The lectures will provide descriptions of the physiology and cellular biology of metabolism, with time for questions and discussion of the implications for health.
The course will review the function of hormones to regulate metabolism and then use these concepts to discuss weight regulation, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, Type 2 diabetes and its medications. Participants will come away with the important concepts in these areas often obscured in popular media accounts. All discussions will be at a conceptual level with no pre-requisite background in the sciences of biochemistry or physiology, though input from these disciplines from the attendees will be welcome.
This course will combine lecture with class discussion.
Richard Comi
Richard Comi, MD is a Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine and a practicing physician in the Section of Endocrinology at Dartmouth Health in Lebanon. Dr Comi studied the molecular basis of insulin resistance in Type 2 diabetes in his fellowship at the NIH from 1983-1988. He was the Director of the Diabetes Centers of New Hampshire, a diabetes education network, from 1989 to 1999. He has been a lecturer in Diabetes and Endocrinology at the Geisel School of Medicine since 1989.