***Hot-Topic Webinar***
Millions are Living with Alzheimer’s or Other Dementia
As the size of our population age 65 and older continues to grow, so will the number of those affected. Conventional therapies are limited to symptomatic treatment and do little to alter the progression.
We’ve Got to Look at This Differently if We Want Things to Change!
From Despair to Hope:
Reversing Alzheimer’s with Functional Medicine and Lifestyle Interventions
This free webinar serves as a spotlight session for our upcoming 24-hr in-depth training.
** Recording Access Available through 11/18/24 only – Scroll Down for Access**
Alzheimer’s Disease is a scourge of the 21st century, with devastating consequences for millions and casting a dark shadow on the late life experience. After decades of living, working, and parenting, the retirement years should be filled with the rewards of joy, family time, and travel. Sadly for many, they are abruptly stolen away with an unfortunately common diagnosis, Alzheimer’s disease.
Millions of dollars of drug research have repeatedly failed to produce an effective drug for the disorder. And what is available comes with the potential of severe side effects.
It’s Simply Not Enough!
But now, quietly in the background, a conventionally trained neuroscientist discovers Functional Medicine and successfully halts progression and even reverses the disease!
Dr Dale Bredesen has taught an ever-growing group of functional medicine practitioners how to heal the brain through a personalized functional medicine approach. This includes ever-evolving assessment techniques, lifestyle interventions, and the application of unique technologies and supplements that target the diverse root causes of neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation.
What is particularly exciting…
…is that the entire protocol falls solidly in Medical Nutrition Therapy, and within the Dietitian/Nutritionist’s scope of practice, while assessment and lab monitoring is available to Functional Medicine trained practitioners of all credentialed health care disciplines.
Our upcoming full training series on cognitive health is starting later this month. This hot-topic webinar will provide you with a window into just some of the information that will be delivered in the full course.
In this Hot-Topic webinar, we’ll explore…
- Bredesen’s published research on reversal success with newly published case study
- Brief pathophysiology: a look behind the toxic amyloid beta and tau protein
- an overview of the 6 subtypes of AD with unique drivers and characteristics and the “36 holes”
- The “Bredesen 7” basic lifestyle interventions overview
- 4 new and unexpected drivers of AD
- Hot off the press: a brand-new blood panel that provides an early baseline read of AD before symptoms and monitor progress of interventions. Prevention is preferred!
This webinar is for you if you want to:
- Expand your practice to an area that supports a growing population in dire need of more answers
- Apply the latest methods for evaluating cognitive health and neurodegeneration.
- Identify and target underlying factors contributing to the disease.
- Enhance patient outcomes by adopting personalized treatment strategies.
- Empower patients with strategies to potentially halt or reverse disease progression.
- Implement effective lifestyle interventions to help prevent or support Alzheimer’s Disease.
Discover Effective Solutions for Cognitive Decline so You Can Profoundly Change The Lives of Your Clients at Risk!
Host: Susan Allen-Evenson, RDN, LDN, FMNS
I’m Susan Allen-Evenson, and I have 30 years of fantastic experience successfully using Functional Nutrition in the many settings I’ve worked in, including leading Integrative Medicine centers and several years in private practice. After the first year or two, I barely had to market my services—so many grateful clients have done the talking (and referring) for me!
Four years ago, my mother was diagnosed with mixed dementia and early-onset Alzheimers. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea it would go to this extent. As her sole caregiver, I’ve taken it on as my mission to do all I can to help slow the progress of her disease. I’m thrilled to share that with my knowledge and experience in functional nutrition, we’ve made great strides in slowing her progression. Her medical team has been quite surprised in fact. Maybe you also have a loved one to care for or want to work with the aging population or already do now. If you want to have a huge impact that can change lives, you’ll want to join this training!
I’ve been providing professional training for Dietitians/Nutritionists and other healthcare professionals for over ten years because I know firsthand how much our public needs responsible, safe, and effective guidance for their health. Functional medicine provides answers where conventional falls short. Many I train are surprised there is much more to know than they ever learned in school! This is an excellent topic to see the functional medicine approach in action!
Your Presenter: Mona S. Ottum MS, RDN, IFMCP, CLT, CD, FMNS
Mona became an RD in 2009 and completed her MS Human Nutrition in 2014 at Eastern Michigan University. She became a LEAP therapist in 2014. She began training in Functional Nutrition with Susan Allen in early 2013 in one of her first advanced training cohorts. She also attended the IFM functional nutrition course followed by their 5-day AFMCP functional medicine introduction.
While completing her MS, starting up a private practice and learning functional medicine, she consulted at an award-winning Alzheimer’s and Memory-Care assisted living facility for 8 years. Hearing Dale Bredesen speak at an IFM grand rounds of Alzheimer’s reversal successes, she trained with the first group of 50 practitioners with Dale at the Buck Institute. She completed the IFM certification program and became an IFMCP in 2018 and a ReCode 2.0 Bredesen practitioner in 2022.
She has taught functional medicine lifestyle and cooking classes through her local community education and taught as an adjunct at EMU. Her Essential Balance Nutrition private practice took its first client in 2016 and went full-time in 2019. Her special interests include neurodegenerative diseases and mood dysregulation, gastrointestinal disorders, and autoimmunity.