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Implementing Nutrition Strategies with Rehab Patients

This module provides an introduction to minerals, vitamins, and phytonutrients.

Course • September 18, 2019

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Integrating Functional Nutrition Into Your Practice

This module discusses implementing the fundamentals of functional nutrition in a systematic manner within a health care environment.

Course • September 18, 2019

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Addressing Homeostasis and Its Role in Healing Mechanisms

This course provides insight in the Mitochondria Metabolism. You will learn how nutrition plays a vital role in the multidisciplinary...

Course • September 18, 2019

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Why Nutrition is Important to Supporting Good Health

This module includes a review of the Immune System, highlights the various immune triggers of a pro-inflammatory state, concepts of...

Course • September 18, 2019

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How to Maintain GRIT in Sports through Nutrition

This course will introduce learners to the role of nutrition in athletic competition and basic nutrient strategies to maximize athlete...

Course • September 12, 2019

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RESILIENCY: Keeping Athletes in the Game with Nutrition

This course provides understanding of the importance of recovery after practices and competition. Topics include identifying common injuries to...

Course • September 12, 2019

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Defining Neuroinflammation – Causes, Consequences, and Conditions

This module provides insight into the role of neuroinflammation in chronic conditions.

Course • September 12, 2019

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Practitioner Implementation Strategies – Psychology of Eating

Introductory topics of this course include the emotional, mental and spiritual components to eating. Included is a discussion of the...

Course • September 12, 2019

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Communication – HPATG Axis

In this course you will review the physiology of stress, cortisol/DHEA balance as well as look at the production, transport,...

Course • September 12, 2019

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Gastrointestinal Function – Digestion Assimilation Absorption

In this module you will review the various imbalances of the gastrointestinal system as well as the pathophysiology associated with...

Course • September 12, 2019

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Food, Nutrition, and the Methylation Balancing Act

Methylation has garnered much attention in recent years, especially now that health professionals are beginning to understand the clinical...

Article • September 15, 2020 • 3 min read

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Addressing Daily Toxin Exposure in Pets

In veterinary medicine practice, toxin exposure in pets is a common challenge. For the most part, toxic exposure is addressed...

Article • September 15, 2020 • 4 min read

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The B Complex: B Vitamins for Energy, DNA Repair, Nerve Conduction, and So Much More

The eight B vitamins affect biological processes through interrelated roles and cooperative functions. Their participation as coenzymes further...

Article • September 12, 2020 • 7 min read

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Oxidative Stress and Muscle Function During Exercise

Exercise and heavy training in athletes can increase the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS). Antioxidants work to neutralize ROS,...

Article • September 5, 2020 • 3 min read

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Herbs for Stress Management: Supporting Mental & Physical Stamina

Herbs for stress may address the effects of stress as an undeniable factor in many illnesses, and growing evidence now...

Article • August 29, 2020 • 5 min read

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Energy Metabolism and Physical Activity

Anything that moves needs energy, and the human body is no different. Nutrients consumed in the diet serve as fuel,...

Article • August 22, 2020 • 3 min read

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Hemp for Pets: Understanding the Endocannabinoid System in Veterinary Medicine

Animals have an endocannabinoid system just like humans do, including cannabinoid receptors, endocannabinoids, and metabolic enzymes from within the...

Article • August 17, 2020 • 2 min read

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What Are the B Vitamins?

The group of B vitamins is comprised of eight, water-soluble vitamins that are essential to cellular health, both catabolic and...

Article • August 15, 2020 • 4 min read

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Antioxidants and Oxidative Stress

As their name implies, antioxidants are a class of molecules with the ability to prevent oxidation. Their action is biologically...

Article • August 8, 2020 • 6 min read

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Green Exercise: The Benefits of Outdoor Activity on Mental & Physical Health

For many, fresh air and open spaces have already become a crucial component to well-being, but perhaps more than ever...

Article • August 5, 2020 • 2 min read

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The Role of Microbiome

Robert Martindale, MD, PhD, explains the importance of probiotics and prebiotics in altering the composition of the gut microbiome. Fiber,...

Video • June 12, 2020 • 3:34 min watch

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The Role of Inflammation in Chronic Disease

Robert Martindale, MD, PhD, discusses the increased prevalence of chronic, inflammatory conditions such as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease that...

Video • June 11, 2020 • 4:36 min watch

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2′-FL as a Binding Decoy: Defense Against Disruptors

2’-fucosyllactose (2’-FL), is a human milk oligosaccharide (HMO), a distinct group of prebiotic carbohydrates that, when ingested, provide a...

Video • May 19, 2020 • 1:54 min watch

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Mindfulness with Meghan Hamrock, MS, MPH

Nutritionist and certified health coach Meghan Hamrock, MS, MPH, leads a discussion on mindfulness. Meghan discusses the importance of everyday...

Video • April 29, 2020 • 10:04 min watch

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Patient Support During Detoxification

Every day, the human body is exposed to endogenous and environmental toxins and toxicants. Common toxins and toxicants include heavy...

Video • December 3, 2019 • 47:41 min watch

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The Whole Food Advantage: System of Care to Address the American Health Challenge

John Troup, PhD, describes the “Great American Dietary Experiment” that has led to chronic disease states and challenges experienced by...

Video • July 8, 2019 • 11:29 min watch

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Managing Stress and Resolving the Inflammatory Response

Carina Kern, PhD, shares the basics and recent clinical insights about inflammation: why it matters and why a systems approach...

Video • July 8, 2019 • 18:14 min watch

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The Endocannabinoid System: Part 2 – Breaking the Cycle of Chronic Inflammation

CB2 receptors are present on cells throughout the immune system and are involved in resolving inflammation. Your immune system often...

Video • June 24, 2019 • 2:00 min watch

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The Endocannabinoid System – Part 1

What is the endocannabinoid system and how does it work? The endocannabinoid system, or ECS, is a body-wide signaling network...

Video • June 24, 2019 • 1:45 min watch

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Managing Stress with Whole Food Magnesium

We are stressed. About money, work, family, the news. Hopefully you have helpful stress management techniques like meditation and exercise,...

Video • June 24, 2019 • 2:10 min watch

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Cat’s Claw for Immunity and Recovery

Today we are talking about cat’s claw for immunity and recovery with naturopath and medical herbalist Berris Burgoyne, who joins...

Podcast • September 4, 2020 • 32:01 min

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Bitter Herbs for Digestive Health and More

Today we are talking about bitter herbs and their multi-faceted role in health. Host Sara Le Brun Blashka discusses bitter...

Podcast • August 7, 2020 • 42:42 min

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Herbs for Stress, Sleep, and Nervous System Health

Today we’re talking with naturopathic clinician Angela Hywood, who guides us through a selection of medicinal herbs that play important...

Podcast • July 3, 2020 • 52:30 min

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Applying the Wholistic Approach to Pet Care

This episode featured veterinarian Patrick Mahaney, VMD, CVA, CVJ, who has been practicing since 1999. His unique practice combines Western...

Podcast • June 17, 2020 • 48:25 min

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Personal and Practical Insights for the Health of the Veterinarian

Sheila Dodson, DVM, CVA, has been a veterinarian over twenty years, and she owns an integrative veterinary practice offering multiple...

Podcast • June 10, 2020 • 20:54 min

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Turmeric: Bioavailability, Clinical Applications, and Vast Health Benefits

Today we’re talking with Professor Kerry Bone about one of the most researched herbs in the world in terms of...

Podcast • June 5, 2020 • 51:35 min

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Hemp and the Endocannabinoid System for Pets

In the first part of this two-part episode, Slavko Komarnytsky, PhD, answers all of the most commonly asked questions about...

Podcast • June 3, 2020 • 54:33 min

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The Nervous System, Pet Rehab, and Veterinary CSI

The Nervous System The nervous system is important for dogs and cats because, like in humans, it “governs the function...

Podcast • May 27, 2020 • 47:05 min

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Season 3 Trailer: The Wholistic Approach to Pet Care

Welcome to the third season of the WholisticMatters Podcast Series, “The Wholistic Approach to Pet Care.” This series guides the...

Podcast • May 20, 2020 • 1 min

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The Role of Herbs in Innate Immunity and the Inflammatory Response

Today we’re talking about the innate immune system, the inflammatory response, and the cytokine storm, particularly in the context of...

Podcast • May 1, 2020 • 44:21 min

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2′-FL’s Unique Decoy Binding Mechanism

2’-fucosyllactose (2’-FL), is a human milk oligosaccharide (HMO), a type of prebiotic found in breast milk. 2′-FL has a unique...

Download • July 22, 2020 • 1 min read

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Herbal Safety and Breastfeeding

Naturopathic doctor and registered herbalist Marisa Marciano lists common medicinal herbs and their association with safety information pertaining to...

Download • June 13, 2020 • 5 min read

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Herbal Safety During Pregnancy

Naturopathic doctor and registered herbalist Marisa Marciano lists common medicinal herbs and their association with safety information pertaining to...

Download • April 29, 2020 • 3 min read

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