Functional Medicine 209

Course overview

*Simplify the progressive cause-effect relationship of disease from biochemical imbalances to physiological disturbances to cellular/organ degeneration to disease manifestation. *Identify the five primary underlying etiologies of virtually all chronic degenerative disease. *Analyze the most common antecedents and triggers that predispose your patients to disease. *Devise an evaluation algorithm that efficiently guides your testing recommendations. *Discover novel in-office testing procedures that cost-effectively demonstrate patients' nutrient insufficiencies; unmanaged stress; toxic burden; and sleep "debt". *Evaluate Heart Rate Variability test results to easily measure and demonstrate patients' stress adaptability as well as their response to treatment modalities. *Discriminate the meaningful information gleaned from Bio-Impedance Analysis (BIA) testing for monitoring your patients' health restoration progress. *Interpret evaluation results to efficiently identify which primary factors are contributing to your patients' health challenges. *Prioritize treatment plans that address both short-term goals (symptomatic relief) and long-term goals (correction, stabilization and prevention). *Distinguish which nutraceuticals best support patient needs based on history, exam, testing and symptomatology. *Communicate the functional medicine model of health and disease with your patients with greater clarity and ease.