- Do your clients experience headaches, fatigue, brain fog, sensitivity to strong odors and perfumes?
- Do they feel the negative effects of even small amounts of caffeine or alcohol, or are they sensitive to even low doses of medications?
- Do they have difficulty losing weight?
These could all represent issues related to toxic burden and less than optimal detoxification. Our traditional training implies we should be able to detoxify all on our own; that our body needs no help with this process but is that really true for all?
Encore Presentation:
Understanding the Role of Detoxification in Our Modern World
Let’s face it – We live in a toxic world!
Lancet Neurology reports a doubling of neurotoxic chemicals in the last 7 years! The CDC reports that over 40,000 chemicals are currently used in commerce in the US and an estimated 1,000 or more are made each year. What’s more, they admit that complete toxicological screening data is available for only a fraction of these chemicals!
In this webinar, we’ll give an overview of toxicity sources and assaults, identify avoidance measures, and cover a general overview of detoxification physiology – the metabolic process of clearing, neutralizing or transforming toxins and then excreting them from the body.
When oxidation is high, the body’s toxic burden increases. We’ll learn that a person’s toxic burden is not just about exposure to, but how well an individual’s detoxification system works, which contributes to inflammation and chronic disease. The degree to how well someone can detoxify is often linked to genetic differences – an area we need to explore more fully.
To be sure, detoxification is not a process that can be underestimated, and is something our clients oftentimes need more support for!
We’ll explore assessment methodology to help us better determine a patient’s toxic burden and detoxification status.
Lastly, we’ll explore in detail the vital balance of optimal nutrition that is required for the detoxification process to work most efficiently. Evidence-based therapeutic interventions will be addressed with regards to detoxification regimens including diet and supplementation.
About your Presenter:
Susan Allen-Evenson RDN, CCN, FMNS
Founder/Director of Next Level Functional Nutrition Professional Training
As a recognized Functional Nutrition expert, Susan Allen-Evenson provides a unique and very successful approach to personalized health and wellness as she incorporates an overall focus on the mind-body-spirit connection in her work as a speaker, mentor, author and nutrition consultant. Susan earned her nutrition degree in Medical Dietetics from the University of Illinois and became a Registered Dietitian (RD) in 1991. She subsequently completed post-graduate level training to become a Certified Clinical Nutritionist (CCN), which designates her specialty in the nutritional aspects of Functional Medicine.
Ms. Allen-Evenson has worked in many settings in addition to her own private practice. She was involved in one of the first free-standing nationally-based Integrative Medicine clinics, American Whole Health. She also consulted for the startup of The Center for Integrative Medicine affiliated with prestigious Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Ms. Allen-Evenson has held board appointments with The International and American Association of Clinical Nutritionists, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ sub-specialty group: Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine (DIFM), on the Nutrition Board of the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM) and on the Scientific Advisory Board of Integrative Therapeutics, Inc., one of the largest natural medicine manufacturers in the United States.
With her passion for educating, Ms. Allen-Evenson lectures nation-wide and has been a consultant to the nutraceutical industry. In her almost three decades of practice, Susan has recognized the growing divide between traditional dietetics training and the emerging trends in Integrative and Functional Medicine. Understanding many health care providers, especially dietitians, are missing a key opportunity, she launched a unique national mentoring initiative, Next Level Functional Nutrition, to provide training to registered dietitians and other healthcare professionals wanting to learn this specialty.
Considered an authority, she has appeared on numerous radio and television programs, has been quoted extensively in the press, and is also a published author. She was Chief Nutritional Consultant for the Reader’s Digest book; Food Cures: Breakthrough Nutritional Prescriptions for Everything from Colds to Cancer and she was a contributing author to the first college textbook of its kind, Integrating Therapeutic and Complementary Nutrition, CRC Press 2007. Ms. Allen-Evenson has also authored a chapter in AAPI’s Nutrition Guide To Optimal Health: Using Principles of Functional Medicine and Nutritional Genomics.
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