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Package Includes:
- Twenty-one hours of audio CDs, professionally recorded and edited.
- Reference Manual (393 pages), revised and updated, containing more than 3,900 journal citations organized by subject, and indexed, with more than 1,800 summaries.
- More than 180 pages of handout material (plus a CD-ROM containing 21 additional articles) describing clinical uses of nutrients, herbs, and natural hormones, as well as specific protocols for more than 90 medical conditions.
Topics Covered:
- Overview: Diet, Health and Disease, Dysinsulinism, Food Sensitivity, Digestion & Absorption
- Therapeutic Uses of Nutrients: Vitamins, Minerals, Accessory Food Factors, Essential Fatty Acids, Amino Acids, Biochemical Effects, Clinical Indications, Drug and Nutrient Interactions, Dosage & Administration, Toxicity
- Intravenous Nutrient Therapy
- Endocrine Therapy: Thyroid, Cortisol, DHEA, Estrogen, Progesterone, Testosterone
- Specific Protocols: Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes Mellitus, Hypertension, Fatigue, Psychiatry, Gastrointestinal Disorders, Dental/Periodontal Disease, Gynecology, Infertility, Opthalmology, Lung Disease, Dermatology, Osteoporosis, Arthritis/Rheumatology, Urological Disorders
Course Overview | Learning Objectives | Target Audience | Course Feedback
Presenter Bios: Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
Course Overview:
The purpose of Nutritional Therapy in Medical Practice is to provide state-of-the-art information on the use of diet, nutrients, hormones, herbs, and other natural substances in medical practice. This course is a scientifically based guide to nutritional therapy as an adjunct or alternative to conventional medicine. Drs. Wright and Gaby bring to this course an extensive review and analysis of the medical literature and 54 years of combined clinical experience.
Conditions discussed include fatigue, depression, migraine, irritable bowel syndrome, inflammatory bowel disease, peptic ulcer, acne, eczema, premenstrual syndrome, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, arthritis, angina, congestive heart failure, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, prostatic hyperplasia, osteoporosis, alcoholism and many others.
Nutritional Therapy in Medical Practice emphasizes practical and specific applications of nutritional biochemistry in the clinical setting, including dosages, adverse effects, and drug-nutrient and nutrient-nutrient interactions.
Based on a Research Library of more than 50,000 articles Drs. Wright and Gaby have collected over the past 33 years, Nutritional Therapy in Medical Practice is a well-organized, information-filled 4-day course. Detailed printed protocols and a 380-page reference manual containing over 3,700 relevant medical-journal citations, including summaries of more than 1,800 key articles are provided.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this four-day conference, participant will have the ability to:
- Utilize a wider array of therapeutic options, including dietary modifications, nutritional supplements, herbs, and bio-identical hormones for the prevention and treatment of common medical conditions.
- Refer knowledgably to a database of scientific literature that related to natural therapeutics.
- Discuss appropriate doses, toxicities, contraindications and interactions of the major nutrients, herbs and hormones.
Target Audience:
This program is designed for physicians, nurses, chiropractors, naturopaths, dietitians, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals.
Course Feedback:
“This course gave me a solid foundation in the practice of Clinical Nutrition.”
Allan Lieberman, M.D., Past President, American Academy of Environmental Medicine
“A gem of a seminar. Drs. Gaby and Wright know the literature extremely well…and you leave with many practical hints that you can use immediately.”
Michael Schacter, M.D., Past President, American College for Advancement in Medicine
“From vitamin A to zinc and arthritis to zoster, this seminar covers it all. I’ve attended three times and consider the information indispensable to my practice.”
Kenneth N. Woliner, M.D., Boca Raton, FL
About the Instructors:
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Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., is in private practice in Renton, WA. A graduate of Harvard University (A.B., 1965), and the University of Michigan (M.D., 1969), he began private practice in 1972. With Dr. Gaby, he has taught nutritional therapy since 1983 to a total of several thousand physicians.
Dr. Wright is the author or co-author of eight books, including Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness, The Patient’s Guide to Health and Healing (2006), Why Stomach Acid is Good for You (2001), Maximize Your Vitality and Potency for Men Over 40 (1999), The Patients Book of Natural Healing (1998), and Natural Hormone Replacement for Women Over 45 (1997). Dr. Wright has authored or co-authored 24 professional papers. He was a monthly medical columnist for Prevention magazine for 10 years, Let’s Live magazine for 10 years, and since 1994 the editor of Nutrition & Healing, a monthly newsletter.
Dr. Wright is internationally recognized as a pioneer and innovator in the field of nutritional medicine. He developed bio-identical triple-estrogen and discovered important relationships between cobalt and estrogen metabolism and iodine and estrogen metabolism. He has popularized the glucose tolerance-insulin resistance test and the use of D-mannose for bladder infections, as well as many other innovative techniques and therapies. As a speaker at seminars and conferences around the world, he has helped revolutionize the medical practices of thousands of physicians. |
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Alan R. Gaby, M.D., received his B.A. from Yale University, his M.S. in biochemistry from Emory University, and his M.D. from the University of Maryland. He was in private practice for 18 years and was Professor of Therapeutic Nutrition and a member of the clinical staff at Bastyr University from 1995 t0 2002. He is Past President of the American Holistic Medical Association and provided expert testimony to the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, related to the cost-effectiveness of nutritional supplements.
Dr. Gaby is the author of Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis and The Doctor’s Guide to Vitamin B6. He co-authored Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient’s Guide to Health and Healing and The Patient’s Gook of Natural Healing. He is the editor of A-Z Guide to Drug-Herb-Vitamin Interactions and The Natural Pharmacy. He has written chapters in two medical textbooks: Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Textbook of Natural Medicine. He has been Contributing Medical Editor for the Townsend Letter for Doctors since 1985 and for Alternative Medicine Review since 1996. He is currently working on completing a 30-year project, a textbook of nutritional medicine, which is scheduled for publication in 2008.
Dr. Gaby is noted for his clear and witty teaching style, as well as his thorough knowledge of the medical literature – past and present. |
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