( HS Lockhart 060034 2021) Maximizing Nutrition

Course overview

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. Its 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.