Integrative Nutrition: Metabolism and Chinese Medicine

This is the second course in a series called Integrative Nutrition & Chinese Medicine and will cover biomedical and Chinese concepts of nutrition and explore the complementary and alternative concepts that are part of the modern supplement industry This series will be one live class per month covering a category of nutrition and will include some basic biochemistry, nutrition, and supplements available on the market. In other words, it is going to be the perfect combination of biochemical nutrition, supplements, Chinese medicine, and real-world use cases, If you are a practitioner of any stripe or just interested in nutrition, this is the series for you,

This class will cover metabolism including bioenergetics and sugar metabolism including glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, and the citric acid cycle. We will examine their biochemistry, physiology, and their role in health and disease. After exploring this, we will look at supplements on the market, what they theoretically do and what the science says about their effectiveness. There will be a lot of information and it will be immediately useful for treating our patients.

This course will be a live webinar on Sunday, March 23, 2025 from 1-4pm pst.

Hosted by

The course will be hosted on Net of Knowledge. You will be given access to the event on Net of Knowledge before the start date. Once your event access has been added you will receive an email letting you know. When you register here, we will pass on your name, email address and country to Net of Knowledge in order to register you for the event.

Course Goals

A participant in this course will be able to:

1. Comprehend metabolism from a biomedical perspective
2. Explore how the most common supplements to aid metabolism theoretically act on the body
3. Develop potentially effective treatment strategies involving metabolism supplements
4. Understand and prevent any potential interactions

This is California Acupuncture Board (CAB) Category 1 live education course. For NCCAOM, this course is a core (AOM-BIO) PDA. This course is approved by the California Acupuncture Board and NCCAOM for 3 hours of continuing education and PDAs. For further information, please contact Dr. Greg Sperber, CAB CEU Provider #1349, NCCAOM PDA Provider #166669, at DrGreg@integrativemedicinecouncil.org or (619) 881-0029. Refund Policy: A refund request can be made up to seven days before the scheduled webinar and a full refund will be offered. Within a week of the seminar, cancellations will refund half the cost of the webinar.

Picture attribution:

Doc. RNDr. Josef Reischig, CSc., CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ccf8w398

Picture description: Polarization microscopy images of glucose crystals.