Upon completion of this module, the participants will:

• Learn advanced integrative approaches to cancer therapies
• Explore clinical approaches to structural imbalances
• Learn what determines test result accuracy, sources of error and what is involved in the management of quality assurance systems in a clinical laboratory
• Understand how reference ranges are established and displayed
• Understand organic acid metabolism and how this relates to evaluating nutrient insufficiency and toxic imbalances
• Learn how to evaluate a patient's level of oxidative stress
• Understand how urinary porphyrin analysis can evaluate functional effects of environmental toxins
• Learn how to evaluate a patient's level of vitamins, minerals, and toxic metals
• Understand the use and advantages of DNA identification of stool microbes
• Learn the use of genomic analysis in the management of patient health risks
• Learn how to evaluate patient levels of phthalates and other bioactive plasticizers and how this can affect steroid hormone interactions and potential health risks
• Learn how analysis of stool microbes, chemistry, immunology and enzymology can be used to evaluate and treat intestinal disorders
• Know treatments for psychiatric illnesses from an Anti-Aging and Metabolic approach
• Learn nutritional support programs for the competitive athlete
• Learn the role that nutrients play in the treatment of psychiatric illness
• Write prescriptions for exercise plans for healthy patients and those with special needs
• Learn new treatment modalities in the area of sports medicine from a an Anti-Aging and Metabolic approach
• Learn how to wean a patient successfully off of prescription medications such as hypnotics and antidepressants
• Review the biochemical basis of psychiatric diseases
• Discuss the neurobiology and chemistry of the sleep wake cycle in the context of circadian rhythms and identify treatable disorders that can interrupt restorative sleep
• Explain the role of the orexin secreting neurons in sleep disorders, including narcolepsy/cataplexy
• Map a treatment or interventional plan to optimize restorative sleep
• Introduce the principles of functional medicine, focusing on biochemical individuality
• Explore the relationship between genes and environment as risk factors for disease, as well as opportunities to optimize health and well-being
• Discuss the importance of laboratory testing that emphasizes optimal wellness and looks at factors that change before the outward manifestation of disease. Case histories will be discussed
• Emphasize the fundamental functional imbalances that every clinician should consider when seeing a patient: environmental inputs, immune and inflammatory imbalance, energy production/oxidative stress, gastro-intestinal imbalance, detoxification and biotransformation, hormonal and neurotransmitter imbalance, structural imbalance, and emotional imbalance
• Apply the new-found understanding the gene-environment interaction in clinical practice
• Understand the reasons for the failure of traditional chemotherapy
• Learn how to use targeted chemotherapy
• Learn new protocols for advanced stage cancers
• Have a basic understanding of how clinical lab tests are run
• Learn what determines result accuracy, sources of error and what's involved in management of quality assurance systems in a clinical laboratory
• Understand how reference ranges are established and displayed
• Learn how to detect and treat food allergies and how this can affect health
• Understand how to evaluate a patient's level of vitamins, minerals and toxic metals
• Understand organic acid metabolism and how this relates to evaluating nutrient insufficiency and toxic imbalances
• Learn how analysis of stool microbes, chemistry, immunology and enzymology can be used to evaluate and treat intestinal disorders
• Understand the use and advantages of DNA identification of stool microbes
• Learn how anaerobic bacterial imbalances in the gut can affect health and treatments
• Learn the use of genomic analysis in the management of patient health risks
• Learn how to evaluate patient levels of phthalates and other bioactive plasticizers, how this can affect steroid hormone interactions and potential health risks
• Recommend appropriate mineral and vitamin repletion based on exercise needs
• Recommend the correct protein to carbohydrate ratios and specific sources to optimize nutrient timing depending on age
• Recommend amino acids that are evidenced based to improve recovery from a strenuous exercise program
• Recommend nutraceuticals and herbal compounds that will reduce lactate loading and reperfusion injury
• Recommend the appropriate nutrients to support inflammation and post surgery recovery
• Investigate the role that diet has in cancer prevention
• Provide the existing and new research on metabolic therapies for the treatment of cancer
• Identify scientific rationale for using antioxidant/micronutrient/ phytochemical combinations with standard conventional cancer therapies
• Provide supporting literature concerning nutriceuticals and if they can be used as complementing cancer therapies
• Address alternative treatment of specific cancer types
• Learn therapies that may prevent or treat the side effects of radiation or chemotherapy
• Provide step-by-step guide to the safe and gradual withdrawal from tranquilizers, antidepressants, and sleeping aids
• Identify the symptoms of anti-depressant and hypnotic medication withdrawal
• Learn nutritional support for benzodiazepine withdrawal
• Learn the effects that anti-depressants have on the brain
• Learn nutritional support for discontinuation of SSRIs, tricyclic and MAO inhibitor anti-depressants
• Learn nutritional support for hypnotic withdrawal
• Know the antidepressant-induced mental, behavioral, and cerebral abnormalities that can occur with their use
• Learn metabolic treatments for depression, anxiety, OCD, schizophrenia, and manic depression
• Recognize the biochemical imbalances that result in a mental illness
• Understand the decline in endocrine function that occurs in all organs with age
• Know the behavioral effects of endocrine disorders and their application to geriatric psychiatry
• Lean laboratory abnormalities that occur with hyperparathyroidism
• Learn the mechanisms of action of PTH
• Recognize the drug effects that occur on bone strength
• Understand how the mode of delivery of PTH determines the skeletal response to PTH
• Review the literature on the effect PTH treatment has on the risk of vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis