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Earn Two (2) Category I CEUs
Nutrition for Parkinson’s Disease
Good nutrition is required for optimal physical health. But how is nutrition linked to neurological health? Which foods are best for people with neurological disease? This online lecture demonstrates how nutrition can contribute to Parkinson’s disease and provides resources to use nutrition therapeutically in people with Parkinson’s and other neurological diseases.
Core Program:
It’s well known that nutrition impacts brain development in pediatric populations. However, there’s a growing literature that demonstrates the direct and indirect role of nutrition on brain health during aging and neurological disease. This lecture course discusses the roll of nutrition and inflammation in neuroinflammation and neuroprotection, with a focus on Parkinson’s disease.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify nutrients and foods related to neuroprotection;
- Predict symptoms based on immunological profiles;
- Outline how the brain and immune system impact each other;
- Summarize how the immune response to food impacts the brain.
Practicum: On-Demand, Self-Paced 2 Hour Course.
Evaluation of student performance: Estimated Effort: 2 hours to complete (video lecture presentation lesson, handout review, quiz).
NANP members can receive a 10% discount by using the code: NANP10.
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Earn Two (2) Category I CEUs
Psychoneuroimmunology: How Thoughts Impact Disease
How do our thoughts and moods impact disease? How do infections and diseases change our emotions? Understanding how the immune system interacts with the nervous system, the endocrine system, and the microbiome provides clinicians with a more complete picture of disease.
Lecture Full Description:
How do our thoughts and moods impact disease? How do infections and diseases change our emotions? Understanding how the immune system interacts with the nervous system, the endocrine system, and the microbiome provides clinicians with a more complete picture of disease.
Several systems in the body interact with each other to impact health, yet we often study them in isolation. As we have learned more in each of the fields of immunology, neurology, endocrinology, and psychology, the relationships between these fields has illuminated how they are intertwined. Understanding how the immune system interacts with the nervous system, the endocrine system, and the microbiome provides clinicians with a more complete picture of disease. Moreover, a knowledge of psychoneuroimmunology links modern biomedicine with historical constitutional types and provides variety of therapeutic approaches to a patient.
Learning Objectives:
As a result of this lecture, you will be able to:
- Describe how the immune system, nervous system, and endocrine system interact
- Report the relationships between cytokines, neurotransmitters, and hormones
- Discuss the role of cytokines, neurotransmitters, and hormones in the brain and gut
- List diagnoses known to have microbiome relationships
- Suggest treatment possibilities based on PNI and microbiome relationships
Format: On-Demand, Self-Paced Course
Estimated Effort: 2 hours to complete (video lecture presentation lesson, handout review, quiz).
NANP members can receive a 10% discount by using the code: NANP10.
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Earn Two (2) Category I CEUs
Endocannabinoids, Cannabis and Immunity
Do endogenous endocannabinoids and medical cannabis have the same effect? As medical cannabis becomes legal in more and more states, understanding how it interacts with the immune system is critical. The study of cannabis led to the discovery of the endocannabinoid system. These endogenous neuronal compounds have profound effects on the immune system. This online lecture will discuss the effects of endocannabinoids as well as medical cannabis on immunity.
The research on cannabis effects on the immune system has been slow coming. However, considering that cannabis receptor 2 is primarily on lymphocytes, there is reason to believe that endocannabinoids and cannabis have profound immune effects. Initially, the only studies of cannabis and immunity were only in people with HIV. Recently, studies of healthy individuals have been completed.
This presentation will examine the effects of endocannabinoids on immune cells and cytokines. We will then address how cannabis effects the same cells. Finally, we will look at how cannabis can be used in immune dysfunction, such as that found in pain, autoimmunity, and infectious disease.
Learning Objectives:
As a result of this lecture, you will be able to:
- Discuss the immunological effects of endocannabinoids
- Explain how effects of cannabis differ from endocannabinoids
- Predict cytokine profiles stimulated by cannabis
- List immunological diseases for which cannabis would be recommended and potential effects
Format: On-Demand, Self-Paced Course. Estimated Effort: 2 hours to complete (video lecture presentation lesson, handout review, quiz).
NANP members can receive a 10% discount by using the code: NANP10.
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Earn One (1) Category I CEUs
Ayurveda: Eat Right for the Seasons
Ayurveda is a personalized approach to health: knowing the mind-body type allows one to make optimal choices about diet, exercise, supplements, and all other aspects of one’s lifestyle throughout the year. In this Master Class, discover how to see the world through “Ayurveda glasses” to integrate a personalized approach to wellness in your practice.
According to Ayurveda, the world spins through a regular set of elemental energies. Learn how to recognize these elemental energies and how to eat in a way that will keep you and your clients in balance year round.
Discover how these energies create one’s individual constitution as they move through each day, season and stage of life.
What you will learn:
• Develop a basic understanding of how elemental energies shift from season to season
• Learn which tastes can balance which season’s energies
• Learn how to craft a menu of seasonal foods for maximum wellness
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Note: Participants are encouraged to participate in a second Ayurveda Master Class by also registering for What is Ayurveda?
A discount is available for the complete Ayurveda Master Class Package which is worth 2 CEU's. (One CEU for each program).
NANP members can receive a further 10% discount by using the code: NANP10.
Register for the package here.
Earn Eighteen (18) Category I CEUs
Communicating Evidence-Based Research: Scientific Writing for Integrative Health
Online, 14 Week Self-Paced Course (6 modules) with 1:1 support of a Professional Mentor.
Translating evidence-based health information is difficult, even for experienced health practitioners. Join us in this comprehensive six-module course with the support of an experienced mentor, and we’ll get you started in creating evidence-based compositions that you will be proud to share with your clinical community.
Pre-requisites:
Students must come to the course with 3-5 pieces of primary research evidence they would like to combine into a summary and synthesis.
For those who need assistance in obtaining the requisite literature, we strongly encourage you to enroll in the following self-paced module: Finding the Research for Evidence-based Practice.
NANP members can receive a 10% discount by using the code: NANP10.
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