2-Day: Food as Medicine Certification

Functional Nutrition to Reduce Inflammation, Improve Gut Function and Prevent/Reverse Chronic Disease

Speaker:: Cindi Lockhart, RDN, LD, IFNCP
Duration:: 12 Hours 49 Minutes
Format:: Audio and Video
Copyright:: Oct 27, 2023
Product Code:: POS065297
Media Type:: Digital Seminar

Price
$459.99 - Standard

Numerous chronic diseases can be prevented, managed and even reversed with proper nutrition. But your patients are sick and tired of hearing “move more and eat less” or that “it’s all just calories in vs. calories out.” Fasting. Fad diets. Magic pills. They’ve tried it all, and nothing worked.

They’re coming to you with questions because they need someone they can trust to provide sound guidance for nutrition.

Discover simple and affordable, evidence-based holistic approaches to help patients achieve optimal health while preventing and addressing common health problems. With this functional nutritional framework, explore:

Evidence-backed answers to your patients' questions about nutrition and supplements
The gut’s impact on the entire body & a simple 5R protocol to repair it
Powerful nutritional strategies to prevent and reverse chronic conditions including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, autoimmunity, anxiety & depression, cancer, cognitive health and more
Hot topics! Keto, fasting, GMOs, nutrigenomics, gluten, and more!

Empower patients to take an active role in the restoration of their health with this powerful food as medicine approach. Lock in behavior changes and make nutritional habits permanent, easy and sustainable with tools you can easily implement into your practice.

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Lockhart Wellness Solutions, LLC

Cindi Lockhart, RDN, LD, IFNCP, is board-certified as an integrative and functional nutrition practitioner with over 30 years in professional practice. She has trained nutrition, fitness, and medical practitioners throughout most of her career, yet maintains a personal practice with clients as she believes that the only way she can effectively educate and inspire other practitioners is through her own practical experience with clients. In addition to educating on how Food is Medicine, Cindi also specializes in coaching clients and practitioners on the importance of managing stress, optimizing sleep, proper exercise and movement, and reducing exposure to environmental toxins. Cindi has extensive expertise in women’s health issues including perimenopause/menopause and thyroid dysfunction as well as autoimmunity, gut health, weight management, cardiometabolic health (insulin resistance, diabetes, heart disease), fasting, histamine intolerance, mold detox, and long COVID.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Cindi Lockhart is the owner and founder of Lockhart Wellness Solutions, LLC. and is a contributing author for Experience Life Magazine. She receives compensation from Fullscript. Cindi Lockhart receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Cindi Lockhart is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Dietitians in Integrative & Functional Medicine, the Institute for Functional Medicine, and the Integrative & Functional Nutrition Academy.

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Determine common nutritional risks and articulate action steps to help optimize a patient’s nutritional state.
Determine how to assess a patient’s nutritional status and when to refer out to a nutrition professional.
Determine how oxidative stress and inflammation drive dysfunction and chronic disease.
Determine how one's nutrition and lifestyle habits impact overall health and wellness via driving or lowering inflammation and oxidative stress.
Assess the general function of the gut via digestion, intestinal permeability, and microbiome and its impact on weight, immunity, and metabolic health.
Investigate the health benefits and risks of adequate sleep and mindfulness, as well as the importance of aligning one’s lifestyle habits to natural circadian rhythms.
Differentiate the pros and cons of various popular diets and when best to utilize them.
Inspect how food acts as medicine with specific medical conditions.
Determine a prioritized approach to optimizing gut function via the 5R gut repair protocol.
Determine the criteria and role of functional foods in nutrition.
Investigate the myriad of food reactions: allergies, sensitivities and reactions as well as how to manage them.
Differentiate the components of a SAD (standard American diet) compared to an anti-inflammatory diet and the benefits of food quality over quantity.
Evaluate the role of food and nutrition in mood disorders such as Anxiety and Depression.

Food As Medicine: Principles to Maximize Your Patient’s Nutrition

Foundations: oxidative stress, inflammation, blood sugar regulation
Stress, the ANS, and its impact on nutritional status
Mindful eating
Assessing nutritional status & intake
Macros & micros
Nutrient balance & quality of food
Food reactions
Functional & superfoods
Navigating food labels
Beverages & sweeteners
Supplements

Diet Wars - There is no “one size fits all” in nutrition!

SAD & comparison of elements compared to Anti-Inflammatory diet
Nutrigenomics
Mediterranean
Paleo/DASH
Keto/Low carb
Vegetarian variations
Fasting tactics

Microbiome, Gut Health & Why it Matters

The basics & role of the gut
Digestion & absorption
- Impact of enzymes
- Acidity & hypochlorhydria
  - Risks of PPI’s
Intestinal barrier & leaky gut
- Zonulin
Microbiome
Healthy elimination defined
- Bristol stool chart
Assessing gut function
5R gut repair protocol
- Case Study

Food as Medicine in Special Populations

Cardiometabolic disease
Autoimmunity
Anxiety & depression (mental health)
Cancer
Cognitive health
Case Studies

Physical Therapists
Physical Therapy Assistants
Occupational Therapists
Occupational Therapy Assistants
Chiropractors
Physician Assistants
Nurse Practitioners
Nurses
Physicians
Athletic Trainers
Certified Strength and Conditioning Coaches
Other healthcare and fitness professionals

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