Moodle at CCNM

Physicians often present diet recommendations in terms of total calories, macronutrients, and micronutrients. They may consider avoiding certain foods or cooking methods to optimize health. Ideally, clinicians will also consider how culture impacts food choices and understand that meals are a focal point of family and community life. In addition to the impact of diet on individual patients, dietary choices have significant impacts on the environment; from processing and shipping, to deforestation and contamination of watersheds. Prioritizing these choices and their consequences in a clinical setting can be challenging in the best cases. But in many scenarios, patients can have little choice or access to diet due to finances, age or incarceration. In this presentation, I will simultaneously examine movements designed to address food access for those communities and discuss outcomes in addressing sustainability and environmental impact. Let’s explore the research and resources supporting the farm-to-institution movement in public health.

After thirty years taking us ever deeper into the nature of disease and healing, Dr Sankaran's teachings have completed a full cycle in the evolution of the Sensation Approach. He will demonstrate, through live cases, how an integrated approach to case taking and analysis can help to match the deepest state of the patient. He will share his wide knowledge of provings, materia medica and repertory, which are the bases of his practice and teaching.Learning objectives:To see various levels of experience in the patient To use the approach according to levels of experience To use Materia Medica and repertory in tandem To dwell in the sensation or experience To use different techniques in repertorizationTo use source informationTo use complimentary healing methods To follow-up long term To treat difficult pathologiesTo treat children using SynergyTo sharpen skills of observation and case-taking

There is an important link between gastrointestinal function, brain, hormones, and health. Why do some women feel bloated or have stool changes with fluctuations in their menstrual cycle? What about PMS, including symptoms such as anxiety and depression, all coinciding with gastrointestinal health? In the past decade, there have been huge advancements in the research on this topic. Now we see a relationship between the gut microbiome, our mood, and our memory. We see a higher percentage of people with IBS or other bowel problems suffering from depression and anxiety. We see gut inflammation impacting a whole range of issues from pain, sleep, and libido to mental health. We see probiotic therapy used in place of some anti-depressants with equal success. We've found evidence of direct communication from gut to brain, a type of neural superhighway. This presentation attempts to connect some of these dots in order to shed light on how this intersection may impact our approach to case management.

Visceral hypersensitivity occurs in up to a third of patients with IBS and Functional Dyspepsia, two of the most common functional gastrointestinal disorders presenting to naturopathic practices. This condition is often overlooked and rarely discussed in clinical context, yet can complicate presentation and often leaves patients with continued symptoms despite "normal" work-up. This presentation reviews the proposed causes of visceral hypersensitivity, its relationship to IBS and FGID, and various treatment approaches, including review of research on pharmaceutical, botanical, manual, and psychological interventions. Review of pharmaceuticals to include classes of SSRI, TCA, 5HT3 antagonists, 5HT4 agonists, GABAnergic agents, as well as Ketotifen & Naltrexone (low dose).

How are rising temperatures, extended periods of drought, erratic seasonal transitions, and other factors of the Earth's changing climate impacting wild plant communities and the ecosystems in which they/we live, and how as wildcrafters will we adapt our harvesting practices to reflect this new reality?As we bear witness to the increasingly evident human-caused planetary crises spurred on by techno-industrial civilization, is it enough to simply alter the way we assess and plan for the long-term health and vitality of ecosystems from which we may potentially harvest wild plants, or might we simultaneously practice wildcrafting as a way of transforming the fundamental ways we relate to wild nature and the community of all life?