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Nutrition Theatre

Upcoming Events

September 2016
Speaking: Dr Robert Verkerk

How baseline and ongoing assessments can transform your practice, whatever your modality

September 24 @ 12:00 am - 12:30 pm

To evaluate a patient’s response to particular protocols, researchers use standardised health status questionnaires, but these can be time-consuming and ineffective. Rob Verkerk PhD will discuss a more effective range of parameters and assessments that can be incorporated into every patient visit. Use of these assessment tools is empowering to both practitioner and patient.

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Speaking: Dr. Britt Cordi – Ph.D.

Juicing for health: how to maintain and improve your health & wellbeing through juicing and superfood

September 24 @ 11:15 am - 11:45 am

Dr Britt Cordi, PhD is known across Europe for her inspiring and knowledgeable Superfood presentations, she will give a wealth of insights about how you can use superfoods to support and strengthen your health. She will also make delicious power-packed recipes and reveal how they can improve your health. Britt’s research background and over 20 years’ experience in optimising health and wellbeing guarantees an entertaining and insightful talk

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Speaking: Tam Fry

Obesity

September 24 @ 12:45 pm - 1:15 pm

The Government inexcusably delayed the publication of its strategy to beat childhood obesity until after the Referendum. It has already been labelled a ‘ great scandal ‘ and a ‘ national emergency ‘ requiring COBRA style actions requiring ‘ robust and draconian measures ‘ to solve it. Has the strategy got what it takes?

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Speaking: Savio Jones

Session to be announced

September 24 @ 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

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Speaking: Natascha Van Zyl

Applied behaviour change for practice

September 24 @ 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm

Encouraging client compliance is the cornerstone of good healthcare practice. Thus, essential to designing and implementing successful interventions is understanding how underpinning mechanisms drive and sustain behaviour change. This workshop is aimed at introducing CAM colleagues to the COM-B model of behaviour change and demonstrating how to apply it in practice.

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Speaking: Antony Haynes

Mitochondrial fat burning: how to switch it on!

September 24 @ 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

With up to date scientific research, Antony will show you the biochemistry of how to eat in order to burn fat, and to help optimise your metabolic & mitochondrial flexibility. Antony makes the complex science understandable for all, and with this knowledge inspires motivation to implement the lessons at once!

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Speaking: Umharo Cadogan

The what, why and how to support Methylation for mental health

September 24 @ 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm

Methylation imbalances are thought to contribute to the development mental health conditions including anxiety and depression. Wild Nutrition and Umahro Cadogan will support your understanding of this vital biochemical process and the effective diet and nutrition strategies you can apply for you and your clients.

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Speaking: Graham Botfield

The therapeutic use of fermented herbs and wholefoods

September 24 @ 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Fermented wholefoods have become very popular of late, reviving a tradition of creating highly beneficial sources of nutrition. The benefits of fermented foods such as kefir, kimchi, miso and natto are well documented. What is less known is the traditional fermentation of superfoods such as baobab and maca, and of herbs such as turmeric. The founder of Living Nutrition, Graham Botfield will present the latest research on these powerful foods and their specific nutrients, and how this form of nutrition…

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Speaking: Dr Marilyn Glenville

Natural alternatives to sugar

September 25 @ 12:00 am - 12:30 pm

Come to this talk and find out how consumption of sugar is linked to increased risk of heart disease, cancer (especially breast cancer), type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s. We will explore the natural alternatives to sugar and you will discover that some alternatives are not as ‘natural’ as they seem.

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Speaking: Katie Pande

Turmeric, rather a lot more than curcumin

September 25 @ 10:30 am - 11:00 am

Curcumin is undoubtedly a key active medicinal constituent found in turmeric; but there is so much more to this vibrant root. In this talk, Pukka will be looking at some of the other amazing and powerful constituents present in this plant’s essential oils.

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Speaking: Dr Robert Verkerk

Fast-tracking homeostasis with food, physical activity and complex multi-nutrient nutritional formulas

September 25 @ 11:15 am - 11:45 am

Disease or dysfunction in the body results from imbalances in homeostatic mechanisms. Effective healthcare requires a combination of interventions and dietary and lifestyle modifications to support the body’s natural tendency to find homeostatic equilibrium. With an emphasis on metabolic diseases, Rob Verkerk PhD will discuss how multi-modality interventions can accelerate an individual’s return to homeostasis.

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Speaking: Antony Haynes

Mushroom muscle: the powerful benefits of mushroom extracts to counter inflammation and support immunity

September 25 @ 12:45 pm - 1:15 pm

Excess inflammation within the human body undermines health in the long and short term. The quest for good health necessarily addresses the management of our immune functions. Medicinal mushrooms offer potent ingredients with anti-inflammatory & immune-modulating effects. Learn about ‘Mycotherapy’ (a term coined by Hifas da Terra to define the study of mushroom extracts) & its potential role in your own and your clients’ health.”

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Speaking: Dr. Armin Schwarzbach MD, PhD

Lyme Disease: The Great Imitator

September 25 @ 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Dr. Schwarzbach will discuss the various tests available for Lyme and its coinfections, and show how to select those with the highest sensitivity and specificity. He will then give an overview of the various treatment options. Dr. Schwarzbach is a great proponent of CAM approaches to Lyme disease, and will focus on non-allopathic avenues to recovery.

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Speaking: Miguel Toribio Matteus

Anti-aging

September 25 @ 2:15 pm - 2:45 pm

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Speaking: Nadia Brydon

Sun Chlorella for detox and digestion

September 25 @ 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Sun Chlorella is a single celled chlorophyll rich freshwater algae containing only natural plant based nutrition vital for health. Nadia will explain the role Sun Chlorella plays in maintaining a healthy gut and therefore a healthy immune system and increased energy. She will include some exciting new and delicious raw food recipes using Sun Chlorella.

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Speaking: Emma Lane

The curious case of Subject P

September 25 @ 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm

Subject P had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, chronic fatigue, insomnia, and IBS, yet there was one link connecting all of the health problems that hadn’t been considered before. During this session you will be walked through the case history of a common patient story. It’s not a fairy tale but it does have a happy ending!

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