Wolfram Tetzlaff, MD, PhD

The participants will appreciate that

  1) The nutritional guidelines for patients with acute spinal cord injury are not   evidence-based

  2) In rats improved behavioral outcomes after incomplete cervical and   thoracic spinal cord injury were observed if the rats      were subjected to an   intermittent fasting regimen beginning at the time of injury

  3) Intermittently fasting rats showed smaller lesions, less inflammation and     increased neural sprouting.

  4) Nutritional regimen may have impact on outcome in patients