Full Course Description
Maximizing Nutrition
Food is medicine and we, as a nation, are getting sicker and more obese as the years progress. Healthcare practitioners owe it to their patients to fully understand the tenets of functional nutrition, metabolism, gut health, and hormone balance when it comes to identifying imbalances and recommending prioritized and personalized recommendations for each patient. Functional nutrition (and medicine) incorporates a root cause approach with oxidative stress and inflammation driving dysfunction and disease. It’s important for our health care professionals to understand what this means, how to identify when its present, and how to manage it via general nutrition and lifestyle habits. This training will clear up the confusion around critical nutrition concepts such as macronutrients, micronutrients, nutrient deficiencies and excesses, quality vs quantity of food, sweeteners, as well as details and pros/ cons of common diet plans and who they are best for. We also cover the importance of gut health in overall health and disease prevention plus the impact of various hormone imbalances, how to identify them, and manage them via nutrition and lifestyle measures. This training helps bridge the gap between the science, clinical experience, and the biochemical individuality when putting knowledge into practice.
Program Information
Objectives
- Assess the general function of the gut via digestion, intestinal permeability, and microbiome and its impact on hormones, immunity, and weight.
- Determine how to assess a patient’s nutritional status and when to refer out to a nutrition professional.
- Determine the prevalence of and what entails disrupted sleep, stress management, and alignment to circadian rhythms.
- Investigate the health benefits (including improving physical recovery) and risks of adequate sleep and mindfulness, as well as the importance of aligning one’s lifestyle habits to natural circadian rhythms.
- Inspect the 6 core hormone systems and how they are inter-related – cortisol, insulin, thyroid, estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone.
- Determine how the 6 lifestyle-based root causes affect hormone balance – standard American diet, obesity, too much or too little exercise, chronic stress, inadequate sleep, and environmental toxins.
- Demonstrate how the 5 key lifestyle strategies naturally rebalance hormone systems – diet, exercise/activity, stress management, sleep optimization, and reduction in toxin exposures.
- Determine how oxidative stress and inflammation drive dysfunction and chronic disease.
- Determine how one's nutrition and lifestyle habits impact overall health and wellness via driving or lowering inflammation and oxidative stress.
- Differentiate the pros and cons of various popular diets and when best to utilize them.
- Inspect how food acts as medicine with specific medical conditions.
Outline
Maximizing Nutrition with Science
- Macros and micros
- Organics - when & why
- The skinny on fats
- To carb or not to carb
- Quality over quantity – nutrition is not a mathematical equation
- The importance of nutrient balance
- Often overlooked gem: water
- Other beverages (alcohol, caffeine, soda, juice, carbonated waters, etc)
- Oxidative stress
- Inflammation
- Nutritional insufficiency and excess
Diet Wars – Is There an Official Winner?
- Mediterranean – the gold standard
- Keto
- Intermittent fasting & time restricted eating
- Low carb
- High Protein
- Meal replacements
- VLCD
- Vegan + different types of vegetarian diets
- Elimination diets - the many forms
- Paleo
- Low FODMAP
- Anti-Candida | low mold
- Low histamine
- Blood type diet
- AIP – autoimmune paleo
Solutions to All of the Most Common Questions:
- Supplements
- Gluten intolerance
- Weight loss products and programs
- War on carbohydrates
- Obsession with high protein
- Grain free
- Calories in vs calories out
- BMI is “outdated”…or is it?
- Slow metabolism
- Introducing the vagus nerve system
- Probiotics
- Artificial sweeteners
- GMO
- Meal planning
- Shopping strategies
Assessing nutritional status
- Anthropometrics
- Nutrition physical exam
- 3-day diet recall: pros/cons
- Food frequency
- When to refer out to nutrition professional
Whole System Approach: Optimize Sleep, Stress Management and Circadian Rhythms
- Sleep
- Insomnia and disrupted sleep patterns
- Sleep stages: Repair time
- Recommended sleep patterns
- Stress Management
- Stressor vs response to stress
- Recommendations for stress management
- Mindfulness
- Circadian Rhythms
- Master and peripheral clocks
- Circadian rhythm disruption
- Health risks of misalignment
- Recommendation for aligning circadian clocks
- Customized & Systemized Approach
- Individual needs vs gaps
- Readiness to change
- Where to start
- How to progress
- Case study
Target Audience
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapy Assistants
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Chiropractors
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physician Assistants
- Dieticians
- Massage Therapists
- Athletic Trainers
- Strength and Conditioning Coaches
- Personal Trainers
Copyright :
04/03/2021
Weight Loss and Metabolism
Struggling with weight loss or weight maintenance? If you are, you’ll know that it’s more complex than “eat less and exercise more.” In this course, you’ll learn why “eat less and exercise more,” can set us up for yo-yo dieting and wreak havoc on our metabolism. You’ll distinguish the metabolic factors and hormones that regulate appetite and satiety. You’ll develop strategies, diets and interventions for boosting metabolism and balancing hormones. In addition, we will evaluate the special metabolic needs of pregnant/breastfeeding, athletes, gastric bypass and cancer.
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate why “eat less and exercise more” can set us up for weight loss failure.
- Distinguish metabolic factors and interventions that help to optimize weight loss.
- Avoid major common obstacles to weight maintenance.
- Analyze the impact of stress on physiology and weight gain.
- Develop strategies to naturally improve energy and metabolism.
- Develop strategies to optimize metabolism and nutrition in pregnancy/breastfeeding, athletes and other special populations.
Outline
What makes weight loss so difficult?
- Hormonal adaptations
- “Eat less, move more”
- Caloric restriction
- Stress
- Grehlin & leptin
- Thyroid imbalance
- Lifestyle factors
Modifiable Factors for a Healthy Metabolism
- Energy expenditure
- Nutrition
- How to navigate a food label
- Portion distortion
- Plant based diet
- Timing of food consumption
- Mindful eating
- Intermittent fasting
- Sleep
Special Considerations for Nutrition and Metabolic Testing
- Metabolic syndrome
- Pregnancy
- Breastfeeding
- Athletes
- Cancer
Target Audience
- Occupational Therapist
- Occupational Therapy Assistant
- Chiropractor
- Nurse
- Nurse Practitioner
- Physician Assistant
- Dietician
- Speech Language Pathologist
- Massage Therapist
- Athletic Trainer
- Strength and Conditioning Coach
- Personal Trainer
Copyright :
05/03/2021
Food as Medicine: Working with Special Populations
Frustrated that your clients with chronic diseases aren’t getting results? Do you feel like there’s something missing in your approach? If you work with clients who have chronic diseases such as Diabetes, Hypertension and more, their nutrition might be the missing link. This course will teach you how to apply functional nutrition, evaluate and address the common root causes of chronic disease, and implement strategies as well as nutritional protocols to help you and your clients get clinical results.
Program Information
Objectives
- Distinguish the foundational principles of functional nutrition.
- Evaluate your clients for the presence of the root causes of chronic diseases.
- Determine and incorporate therapeutic diets for specific conditions such as Diabetes and Hypertension.
- Differentiate nutritional challenges of specific diseases and how to address them.
- Apply nutritional super foods and therapeutic foods for specific conditions.
- Evaluate what foods to avoid in chronic diseases such as autoimmunity, hypertension and Diabetes.
Outline
Foundations of Functional Nutrition
- Microbiome
- Micronutrients
- Macronutrients
- Blood sugar regulation
- Whole food diets
- Super foods
Common Diets and Their Implications
- Paleo
- Mediterranean
- Ketogenic/low carb
- Plant-based
- Anti-inflammatory diet
Condition Specific Challenges and Therapeutic Diet
- Diabetes and insulin resistance
- Hypertension
- Hypercholesterolemia
- Hypothyroidism
- Anxiety/depression
- Insomnia
- Fatigue
- Autoimmunity
- Osteoarthritis
Target Audience
- Occupational Therapist
- Occupational Therapy Assistant
- Chiropractor
- Nurse
- Nurse Practitioner
- Physician Assistant
- Dietician
- Massage Therapist
- Athletic Trainer
- Strength and Conditioning Coach
- Personal Trainer
Copyright :
04/01/2021
Gut Health & Hormones: Your gut’s role in hormone balance & how to fix it
When the gut isn’t functioning properly, other parts of the body are going to struggle as well. Bloating, diarrhea, constipation, cramping, skin rashes, acne, anxiety, depression...the list goes on.
Turns out your parents were right; you are what you eat. Integrative and Functional Nutritionist Cindi Lockhart, RDN, LD, IFNCP shows you exactly how the foods we consume impact both our gut health and our hormones! Get the answers to all of these questions and so much more in this invigorating session:
- Why gut health may be one of the largest contributors to overall health?
- Do probiotics really make a difference?
- Do hormones dictate the ability to lose weight?
- How can we reduce inflammation?
You will uncover the key factors to gut health, symptoms and causes of dysfunction, and their impacts on hormone balance. You'll also explore the simple to use 5R gut repair protocol to heal and restore gut function and hormone balance long-term. Empower patients to make the proper changes in their lifestyle to optimize their gut health and hormones - simultaneously!
Program Information
Objectives
- Assess the general function of the gut via digestion, intestinal permeability, and microbiome as well as the estrogen specific estrabalome.
- Evaluate the common symptoms and causes of gut dysfunction in relation to hormone balance.
- Determine a prioritized approach to optimizing gut function and hormone balance via the 5R gut repair protocol.
Outline
Why Does Gut Health Matter?
- Role & function of the gut
- Digestion
- Intestinal barrier
- Microbiome: enter the estrobolome
Signs & Causes of Dysfunction: What to Look For
- Digestion issues: you are what you digest, absorb and use
- Intestinal permeability: leaky gut
- Dysbiosis: microbial imbalance
Gut health & Impact on Hormone Balance
- Gastrointestinal pathogens
- Cortisol
- Insulin
- Thyroid
- Sex hormones
How to Repair the Gut
- 5R protocol
- Remove
- Replace
- Reinoculate
- Repair
- Rebalance
Target Audience
- Chiropractors
- Exercise Physiologists
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Personal Trainers
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapy Assistants
- Strength and Conditioning Coaches
Copyright :
05/21/2021