Linking Food Sensitivities to Gut Health

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Integrative health practitioners are aware of the fast-growing body of research correlating favorable physiological changes with the cognitive and psychosocial effects of meditation and mind-body practices. The challenge often lies in translating these findings to the clinical setting for enhancement of care, prevention of practitioner burnout, and support of overall wellness.

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Presented by: Mark Hyman, MD

Science in its purest form should be able to answer hypotheses and prove or disprove them. Research should be well designed, free of bias or conflicts of interest. Today’s competing nutrition paradigms leaves scientists, practitioners and consumers confused. Is meat harmful or healthful? Is coconut oil dangerous? Should everyone be plant based? Is keto the best diet for humans? Is sugar as bad as we think?

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Dr. Parker provides detailed description of how to create group visits that are personalized and comprehensive in covering lifestyle topics and the clinical imbalances of the Functional Medicine Matrix, while also focusing on scaled impacts on public health.

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“Enteric Dialysis®” – To Delay the Need for Dialysis 

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Presented by: Mark Hyman, MD

Why are there so many different views on a healthy diet? Should your diet be plant-based, vegan, Paleo, raw, or any other of the dozens of diets that are promoted as healthy? The science of nutrition is fraught with methodological challenges. The politics of food and our lack of a coherent food policy compound the problem.

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This edition of the Integrative Practitioner Digital Summit focuses on clinical nutrition.

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Presented by: Marcelle Pick, NP, OB/GYN

Adrenal issues are more and more accepted in the functional medical community. However, we are not always great about keeping the adrenals working well. Long time stress, and also early child hood stress contributes greatly to adrenal issues, and also significant health issues. The ACE study which was a study done in 1998, with Kaiser Permante and the CDC showed that if you have adverse events in your childhood your risk of many significant diseases is increase upwards of over 100 percent due to high levels of cortisol.

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Presented by: Wendy Warner, MD, FACOG, ABIHM, IFMCP

Many of our patients already have had genetic testing done in order to understand their own SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms or “snips”). We can use this information to more easily tailor our plans for hormone balancing in women, ‘cutting to the chase’ so that each plan conforms to the individual we’re working with.

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Presented by: Geri Brewster, RD, MPH, CDN, and Stephen Cowan, MD

Emerging research in epigenetics and nutrition is catching up to the ancient wisdom of Chinese medicine that conceptualized a unity of function between nervous system, digestion and immune resilience. This session will discuss the relevance of optimizing neuro-gastro-immune unity before, during, and after pregnancy in quality of long-term health. Using case studies, practical applications that employ both functional medicine and Chinese medicine will be discussed.

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