What You'll Learn
If you're ready to learn from our leading multidisciplinary team of clinicians
...covering the hottest and most pressing issues you face every single day
...then this exclusive program is for you!
Dietary Supplements: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly for Healthcare Providers
Dana Angelo White, MS, RDN, ATC
The power and glittery appeal of the dietary supplement industry can be misleading both patients and clinicians. Get a comprehensive run-down of the dietary supplement industry regulations and common pitfalls. Learn recommendations for specific types of supplements that health care providers are most often asked about.
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How Not to Die: Preventing and Treating Disease with Diet
Michael Greger, MD, FACLM, New York Times bestselling author, founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and NutritionFacts.org, brings you the latest in cutting-edge research exploring the role diet may play in preventing, arresting, and even reversing our leading causes of death and disability.
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The Unexpected Role of the Gut Microbiome in Health and Chronic Disease
Emeran Mayer, MD, renowned gastroenterologist and neuroscientist, offers clear-cut strategies to reverse the steady upward rise of chronic non-transmissible illnesses, including a model for nutrition to support the health of microbiome. Combining clinical experience with up-to-the-minute science, you'll explore how to restore the health and diversity of the gut microbial ecosystem and reduce system-wide immune activation.
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The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food
Michael Moss, an investigative journalist, crawls through the underbelly of this $1 trillion enterprise to reveal just how the food giants got us to become so dependent on their products. His Pulitzer-Prize-winning research stands as an urgent indictment of that same industry given the enormous hidden cost to our health. You may never look at potato chips, Cheetos™, or Hot Pockets™ the same way again.
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Systemic Inflammation: A Musculoskeletal Dilemma?
Kristina Campione, DC, MS
Systemic inflammation can diminish your MSK outcomes. Explore the connection between the gut and brain that influence pain perception, tissue healing and movement. Enhance the response to your MSK care with this systemic approach that presents practical and actionable screening and intervention.
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Ditching Diets: How to Work with Clients using Intuitive Nutrition and Functional Foods
Vanessa Ruiz, ND, RN-BSN
Many clients find diets to be restrictive, difficult to follow or require sensitivity due to previous eating disorders or obsessions. This session will show you how you can help these clients without creating more anxiety and stress around their eating.
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Protein: How much? For who? And what kind?
Dana Angelo White, MS, RDN, ATC
Getting enough protein is vital to health; knowing exactly how much and when to eat is the best way to truly optimize metabolism. Dietary restrictions and food allergies can make decisions about protein in the diet increasingly complicated. Gain clarity on optimizing protein intake.
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Fasting Strategies: Reduce Inflammation & Pain to Optimize Movement & Recovery
Cindi Lockhart, RDN, LD, IFNCP
Learn effective techniques for patient assessment while navigating potential side effects. Explore a variety of strategies from time restricted eating, intermittent fasting, and fasting mimicking diets along with the populations best suited for each. Walk away with easy-to-implement tactics for patient success.
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It's All About the Food: Improving Diabetes Outcomes
Jon Vredenburg, MBA, RD, CDE, CSSD, LD/N
Learn the latest guidelines about healthy eating with diabetes and which eating patterns are associated with the best outcomes. Common misconceptions about meal planning will be exposed and you'll learn how to address today's hottest topics like keto and artificial sweeteners.
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Biomarker Testing for Endurance Athletes
Bob Seebohar, MS, RD, CSSD, CSCS, METS II
You now have the unique ability to identify functional imbalances that are impacting your athlete's recovery, sleep and so much more! Learn the efficacy of biomarker testing alongside which specific biomarkers should be measured and the recommended timing.
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Hormones in Harmony: Creating an Integrative Diet and Lifestyle Plan
Vanessa Ruiz, ND, RN-BSN
Uncover the widespread impact of circadian rhythms and hormones such as cortisol, insulin, and melatonin. When out of balance, they are associated with insomnia, anxiety, depression, decreased stress resiliency, blood sugar dysregulation and other health conditions. Learn how to restore them through nutrition, rituals, recovery and more.
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Nutrition Periodization and Metabolic Efficiency Training for Endurance Athletes
Bob Seebohar, MS, RD, CSSD, CSCS, METS II
Discover simple solutions that improve the body's ability to regulate blood sugar while enhancing fat burning and preserving carbohydrate stores. This foundational approach does not require counting and fosters an intuitive & healthy relationship with food to meet the athlete's goals.
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Eat for the Health of It
Karen Pryor, PhD, PT, DPT, CH, CFPS
Delve into facts and stories of how changing what patients eat, combined with their activity level, changed their health, inflammation and pain levels. Whether pre-op, post-op, an oncology patient or physical trauma, food may change the healing ability and energy levels.
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Metabolic Syndrome: Causes, Criteria, and Corrections to Optimize Long-Term Metabolic Health
Cindi Lockhart, RDN, LD, IFNCP
Preventable. Avoidable. Reversible... yet metabolic syndrome is on the rise. This cluster of interrelated problems significantly increases the risk for serious illness. Explore non-pharmacological solutions that will help to prevent further disease complications, restore health and optimize function.
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Therapists in the Kitchen: Integrating Nutrition into Your Mental Health Practice
Vicki Steine, DSc, LCSW, BCHN, IFNCP
Nutrition can and should be an integral part of any mental health treatment plan. Learn simple ways to assess your clients' dietary habits, vitamins and supplements to support brain health and mood, and essential macro-nutrients that every client should eat and why.
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Food and Mood: Nutrition Tips for Better Emotional and Mental Health
Kathleen D. Zamperini, LPC, CIMHP
Nutrition is a valuable yet often missing piece of improving emotional and mental health. But what is the relationship between food and mood? You'll learn practical interventions to decrease anxiety and depression.
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Nutrition and Trauma, Part 1: Using Food to Accelerate Recovery for PTSD, Complex Trauma, and TBI
Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, ACS, FNTP, BCTMB
The traumatized body needs nutrition support, but distinguishing what will be most helpful can feel like an insurmountable challenge. In the first part of a 2-part series, you will explore the knowledge and tools you need to set your traumatized clients on the path to recovery.
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Nutrition and Trauma, Part 2: Protocols and Practices for PTSD, Complex Trauma and TBI
Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, ACS, FNTP, BCTMB
Food, dietary supplements, herbs, and spices have a role in healing for traumatized clients! Explore the core nutritional challenges of trauma survivors and the specific protocols you need to help them manage their most common symptoms. You'll also get tools to enhance your clients' motivation and ideas for carving out new practice areas for yourself.
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Closing Keynote Panel: The Pursuit of Health
Moderated by Leslie Korn, PhD, MPH, LMHC, ACS, FNTP, BCTMB, Cindi Lockhart, RDN, LD, IFNCP, and Dana White, MS, RDN, ATC
A dynamic discussion where three of our expert speakers break down your next steps to putting what you have learned into practice! They will help you gain practical tips and concrete strategies you can begin implementing in your practice. No matter who walks through your door, you'll be ready and confident to deliver simple, yet life-changing nutritional recommendations that prevent and reverse disease.
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