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The human gastrointestinal system plays a key role in disease and in health. The human microbiome is engaged in a myriad of metabolic, nutritional, and immune processes. In addition, studies increasingly suggest that an individual's gut microflora composition and activity influence both host resiliency and conversely disease development.
In this session, Dr. Wahls will explore review the environmental factors that influence the speed of aging and neurodegeneration of the brain. She is the Director of the Therapeutic Lifestyle Clinic at the Iowa City VA and uses diet and lifestyle interventions based upon Functional Medicine and Ancestral Health principles to treat a wide variety of neurological, medical and psychiatric disorders. In addition, she conducts clinical trials using diet and lifestyle to treat multiple sclerosis.
Helping a patient resolve a chronic inflammatory condition is one of the biggest challenges a holistic practitioner faces. Even when patients are very compliant with dietary and lifestyle changes and take all the recommended supplements and medications, inflammation can stubbornly persist.
IntegrativePractitioner.com is pleased to offer the Complete Conference Package, featuring all session recordings from the 2017 Integrative Healthcare Symposium Annual Conference in New York City.
The neurosensory retina is a thin diaphanous structure, no thicker than tissue paper attached to the inner wall of the back of the eye. It is the photographic film of the eye and is a laminated integrated circuit that subserves all aspects of visual perception including high resolution central acuity, motion detection, edge identification, contrast sensitivity, color identification and peripheral vision.
This presentation will review the development of the concept of nutrigenomics from the announcement of the decoding of the human genome in 2000 to developments in the field in 2016.
Brain Function can now be visualized in the primary care clinic setting using
The lecture will contain information about relative statistics and epidemiology of head injury. The updated information physiology will be included at this time. Within this information will include dietary, nutrient, medicinal, and functional treatment issues and information that will be in a study that we have conducted on this topic.
Marketing can be a controversial subject in the integrative healthcare community. Inherently, practitioners may bristle at the very notion that practicing integrative medicine requires a marketing strategy, seeing integrative practice as more of a clinical and spiritual endeavor. Some may think that clinical excellence alone is sufficient, or they will figure out their path as they go along. Many are hesitant to engage in marketing, as we do not want to dilute our image of skillful clinicians by being mislabeled as a salesperson. The reality is that any type of medical practice has to be sustainable, scalable, and financially responsible. If you observe the way the most successful practices market their services, you
This lecture will describe the myths and truths about iodine. Iodine levels have fallen across the U.S. over the last 40 years. These falling levels could explain the epidemic of endocrine disorders including problems with the thyroid, ovary, uterus, breast, prostate, and pancreatic tissue.