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Module II: A Metabolic, Anti-Aging and Functional Approach to the Treatment of Hypertension, Diabetes, Coronary Artery Disease and Metabolic Syndrome
Upon completion of this module, the participants will:
- Understand the glycemic index and its use in determining the glycemic index and glycemic load of foods
- Identify patients with Syndrome X/Metabolic Syndrome
- Learn nutritional supplements and lifestyle recommendations for treatment of the components of metabolic syndrome
- Establish a treatment course and treat patients with insulin resistance, diabetes, and neuropathy
- Discuss risk factors for heart disease including elevated cholesterol, triglycerides, lipid fractionation, homocysteine, lipoprotein (a), ferritin, fibrinogen and c-reactive protein
- Look at interventions for chronic endothelial inflammation
- Understand the role of inflammation in cardiovascular inflammatory disease
- Discuss free radical production, glycation, oxidation and apply to patient treatment
- Understand the causes of endothelial dysfunction
- Know botanical treatments to augment the care of insulin resistant patients
- Evaluate the link between oxidative stress and glycemic control
- Know which laboratory tests to order and to properly evaluate insulin resistance, diabetes mellitus, and risk factors for heart disease
- Discuss the role insulin has in the development of hypertension
- Learn nutritional treatments for hypertension
- Learn laboratory evaluations to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease risk factors
- Describe several interactive mechanisms that tie various components of the Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular disease
- Review diet, lifestyle and nutraceutical options for clinically managing dyslipidemia, cardiovascular inflammation, homocysteine, insulin resistence and related conditions
- Understand how various nutrient deficiencies lead/support metabolic syndrome
- Learn what lifestyle factors to modify in order to treat/prevent metabolic syndrome
- Review the complete physiology of hypertension
- Examine metabolic and anti-aging approaches to hypertension through nutrition and supplementation
- Review cholesterol physiology and its contribution to atherosclerosis
- Assess the current literature on dyslipidemia
- Examine effective nutrition and nutritional supplementation strategies for dyslipidemia
- Review a model of cardio metabolic disease
- Access the current literature on the complex physiologic relationships underlying cardio metabolic disease
- Examine effective nutritional strategies and nutritional supplementation on cardio metabolic disease
- Learn the difference between insulin sensitivity, insulin resistance, and Type II diabetes
- Understand glucose homeostasis
- Understand the counter-regulatory hormones and how their normal functions contribute/cause insulin resistance
- Understand why only some patients with insulin resistance develop Type II diabetes
- Redirect the focus of the treatment of Type II diabetes from the insulin perspective to the point of view of the counter-regulatory hormones
- Understand the consequences of increased sugar intake to the body
- Learn the numerous diseases that are linked to a high sugar diet
- Discover hidden sugars
- Study sugar substitutes, their use, and possible side effects
- Learn the symptoms of reactive hypoglycemia
- Know the diseases associated with insulin resistance
- Learn causes of elevated insulin levels
- Investigate how targeted nutraceuticals can support cardiovascular function
- Define toxic blood syndrome and discuss interventions to improve
- Identify the inflammatory index and how to investigate silent inflammation
- Discuss the role of energy medicine in optimum health
- List five nutraceuticals that promote favorable vibrational frequencies in the body
- Discuss how electrical medicine assists in optimizing cellular function
- Define the complex role of energy and the heart
- Learn how the new triad of bioenergetic energy in cardiac health, i.e., coenzyme Q10, L-carnitine and D-ribose can help prevent and overcome heart disease
- Discover why ATP is so essential in optimizing diastolic function of the heart
- Learn about the most 20 common toxins that are found in our everyday life
- Explore the relationship between chemical toxins, inflammation, and disease
- Discover the role that heavy metals play in heart disease