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Module VIII: A Metabolic, Anti-Aging and Functional Approach to Psychiatry and Cancer Therapies, Nutrition and the Athlete, A Metabolic and Functional Approach to Laboratory Evaluations
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