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jeffrey bland, phd
Medicine in the 21st century

Friday 8 - 10 am

Integrative, Holistic, Complementary, Alternative, Functional...How will we describe medicine in the 21st. century? In this presentation we will explore the convergence of discoveries from molecular and cellular biology, physiology, environmental science, clinical medicine, information science, systems biology, nutritional biochemistry, pharmacology and the traditional healing arts to craft an understanding of where medicine is going, who will be its practitioners, how will it be delivered, and who will pay for it. From this perspective an assessment of what is available today to reduce the burden of disease will be presented. An integrated model of assessment and management for what appears to be divergent diseases including type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, osteoporosis, and cancers of the breast, colon and prostate will be described based upon a systems biology approach to medicine.

marianne marchese, nd
PolycYstic ovarian syndrome: a comprehensive approach to diagnosis and treatment

Saturday 1:45 - 2:45 pm

Dr. Marchese will discuss PCOS etiologies including the insulin resistance, hormonal deregulation link. She will discuss differential diagnosis, evaluation, environmental links, botanical and nutraceutical treatments, and conventional interventions as well.

kenneth stoller, md
THE HEALING CHAMBER

Saturday 3:45 - 4:45 pm

A timeline of hyperbaric medicine will start off the lecture and move into a summary of evidence based reviews relevant to treating problem wounds including Randomized Controlled Trials for diabetic ulcers. Questions such as What Is the Likelihood of Benefit from HBO in Diabetic Wounds and when to treat will be answered. Lastly, since HBOT heals all wounds and does so using the same mechanisms in treating diabetic wounds, what other wounds can it treat and what is the reason this therapy is so underutilized.

stephen genuis, md
sauna detoxification of persistent pollutants

Sunday 8 - 9 am

Several recent public health studies have confirmed that toxicant bioaccumulation has become a pervasive problem a clinical challenge that has increasingly been associated with myriad health sequelae including immune system dysregulation, autoimmunity, and diabetes. The investigation of modalities to facilitate excretion of toxicants in order to diminish clinical illness and reverse immune compromise is an emerging area of study. This lecture will provide an overview of detoxification measures and discuss recent research that explores the efficacy of thermal depuration through sauna therapy as a modality to achieve toxicant excretion of many toxic chemical compounds.

john cannell, md
Vitamin d and diabetes

Friday 3:45 - 4:45 pm

We will start with a basic overview of vitamin D physiology and pharmacology, emphasizing issues that are frequently misunderstood.

Then we will talk about recent studies that indicate vitamin D is involved in not only the autoimmune illness, type one diabetes, but in type-2 diabetes as well. Vitamin D deficiency is common and the extent of such deficiency depends entirely on how you define it. Recently the Food and Nutrition Board surprised almost everyone by saying that a 25-hydroxy vitamin D level of 20 ng/ml is healthy. Most vitamin D researchers have written that the lower limit of good health is at least 30 ng/ml and perhaps 40 ng/ml. For example, the Endocrine Society recently issued a long-anticipated report saying that levels should be between 30 and 60. The Vitamin D Council believes that the current science supports a level of between 40 and 60 ng/ml, the range found in people who work outdoors.

Type-1 diabetes has a strong latitudinal gradient. That is, it is uncommon around the equator but becomes increasingly common the further away from the equator one live. Vitamin D is no understood to be crucial for the immune system to prevent the type of mistakes that lead to type one diabetes. Unfortunately, it is unlikely that increasing vitamin D in type 1 diabetics will lower their insulin needs, a recent study showed that eye complications are more common in those with lower vitamin D levels.

Type-2 diabetes is increasingly common due to the epidemic of obesity. However, data from large population studies show that vitamin D levels are closely associated with type 2 diabetes, those with the highest levels being the least likely to get it.

Finally we will talk about supplement plans and how to treat vitamin D deficiency patients, especially obese patient, with vitamin D.

ted schettler, md
environmental diabeTogens

Friday 11 am - 12 pm
In vitro and in vivo laboratory studies, as well as a growing body of epidemiologic literature link exposures to a variety of environmental chemicals to increased risk of diabetes and obesity. Developmental exposures during windows of metabolic programming may be particularly important. This presentation will review this data and discuss the implications for clinicians and the need for further research.

mona morstein, ND
THE NATUROPATHIC TREATMENT OF DIABETES

Saturday 8 - 10 am
Naturopathic Medicine addressed diabetes care through a very effective mixture of diet, lifestyle changes, supplementation and prescription drugs, as necessary. This lecture discusses the dangers of uncontrolled diabetes, and then specifically, comprehensively discusses various treatments and the science associated with their efficacy.

jonathan wright, md
DIAGNOSIS OF TYPE 2 DIABETES BEFORE IT HAPPENS

Friday 1:45 - 2:45 pm

This presentation covers body signs, symptoms, lab evaluation, and effective treatment with diet, exercise, supplementation and new information about the very effective botanical  extract, berberine, in the prevention  of  diabetes and reversal of pre-diabetes. 
 

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