Course Overview

This is a Live Webinar event that will be held on June 23, 2024 - 1pm PDT, 4pm EDT, 5pm BRT, 9pm BST, 10pm CEST, 1:30am IST, 6am AEST, 8am NZST.

This is the ninth course in a series called Integrative Nutrition and will cover biomedical and integrative science of nutrition and explore the complementary and alternative concepts that are part of the modern supplement industry. This series will be one live class per month covering a category of nutrition and will include some basic biochemistry, nutrition, and supplements available on the market. In other words, it is going to be the perfect combination of biochemical nutrition, supplements, Chinese medicine, and real-world use cases, If you are a practitioner of any stripe or just interested in nutrition, this is the series for you.

This class will cover various popular diets and examine them from a modern nutritional as well as a Chinese medical perspective. We will assess their claims and rationale as well as how they hold up to scientific scrutiny with an emphasis on answering the questions: Are they safe? Do they work? And how do they work in the long-term? After exploring this, we will look at supplements on the market they may help dieting, what they theoretically do and what the science says about their effectiveness. There will be a lot of information and it will be immediately useful for treating our patients.

The recordings will be made available for you to review after the event!

Course Objectives

• Comprehend popular diets and their rationale as well as their effectiveness and impact according to Chinese medicine.
• Explore how the most common weight loss supplements theoretically act on the body and according to Chinese medicine.
• Develop potentially effective treatment strategies involving weight loss supplements and Chinese medicine.
• Understand and prevent any potential interactions.

Course Outline

June 23, 2024 - 1pm PDT, 4pm EDT, 5pm BRT, 9pm BST, 10pm CEST, 1:30am IST, 6am AEST, 8am NZST (3 hrs)Introduction.The biochemistry and rationale of diets and their Chinese medical impact.Supplements for weight loss and other diets.Summary.