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.

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 from both a biomedical and Chinese medical perspective
3. Develop potentially effective treatment strategies involving metabolism supplements
4. Understand and prevent any potential interactions

This is California Acupuncture Board (CAB) Category 1 distance education course. For NCBAHM (formerly NCCAOM), this course is a core (AOM-BIO) PDA. This course is approved by the California Acupuncture Board and NCBAHM for 3 hours of continuing education and PDAs. For further information, please contact Dr. Greg Sperber, CAB CEU Provider #1349, NCBAHM PDA Provider #166669, at DrGreg@integrativemedicinecouncil.org or (619) 881-0029. Refund Policy: This course may be downloaded as soon as purchased and therefore no refunds are possible.

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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

Polarization microscopy images of glucose crystals.