“Detox for Health, Beauty, and Weight Loss”
with Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, CNS
Day 1: Tuesday, January 26th
11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST World Clock

One of Nature’s best kept secrets is how weight, beauty, and health can be impacted by the environmental challenges of the seasons. By harnessing the changing qualities of each season and addressing newly uncovered wellness factors, you will look your best and feel renewed throughout the year. Seasonal detox also targets major detoxification pathways based on the Traditional Chinese Medicine approach to health. Focus on the liver and gallbladder in the spring; heart and small intestine in the summer; lungs and large intestine in the autumn, and kidneys and adrenals in the winter. The cycles of the seasons provide a wise guideline for caring for and cleaning out the body.

In this session you’ll:

• Learn why severe fasting and cleansing in winter is NOT a good idea and the importance of detoxing at the right time of year.
• Discover how to harness the season’s influence on the body’s fat-burning ability by targeting specific detox organs for year-round weight control.
• Find out how to balance thyroid function, leverage GI-enhancing probiotics and incorporate low-copper/high-zinc foods to regulate hormones, metabolism, immunity, and the adrenals for overall health and weight control.

“The Medical Myths of Heart Disease”
with Rodger Murphree, D.C., C.N.S.
Day 1: Tuesday, January 26th
12:15 – 1:15 pm EST World Clock

Cardiovascular disease kills almost one million Americans each year. And, despite an aggressive campaign launched by the American Heart Association to counter the epidemic of heart disease, one person dies every 33 seconds. For nearly four decades, we have relied on medical myths to guide us in our attempts to prevent and treat cardiovascular disease. We have been told to reduce our cholesterol, saturated-fat intake, and to take lipid-lowering medications.

In this session, you’ll:

• Learn why much of what you’ve been told about heart disease is based on medical myths and are in fact, as demonstrated in leading medical journals, simply not true.
• Find out why traditional medical recommendations for heart disease and related conditions, have been shown to actually increase the risk of premature death, strokes, heart attacks, anxiety and depression, suicide, senile dementia, and congestive heart failure.
• Discover how you can safely avoid and often reverse heart disease, high blood pressure, mitral valve prolapse, strokes, and heart attacks with the right diet and nutritional supplements.

“The Importance of Vitamin D”
with Michael Holick, PhD, MD
Day 1: Tuesday, January 26th
2:15 – 3:15 pm EST World Clock

The session on vitamin D for health will give you an appreciation for how to determine your vitamin D status and how to treat and prevent vitamin D deficiency. The session will also provide evidence for the vitamin D deficiency pandemic and its consequences on skeletal health and increasing risk of autoimmune diseases, heart disease, cancer and infectious diseases. A three step approach using vitamin D fortified foods in combination with vitamin D supplements and sensible sun exposure to prevent vitamin D deficiency will be discussed.

In this session, you’ll:

• Learn the causes of vitamin D deficiency and its health consequences on the skeleton.
• Find out the definitions for vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency and how to treat and prevent them.
• Gain a broad perspective about the benefits of vitamin D in reducing risk of chronic diseases including diabetes, heart disease, autoimmune diseases, deadly cancers and infectious diseases.

“Signs and Symptoms of Hormonal Imbalance”
Steven Hotze, MD
Day 1: Tuesday, January 26th
3:30 – 4:30 pm EST World Clock

Dr. Steven Hotze will educate you on the signs and symptoms of hormonal imbalance. He will teach you how to obtain and maintain health and wellness naturally through the use of biologically identical hormones.

In this session, you’ll:

• Find out how important hormones are to overall health.
• Learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of hormonal imbalance.
• Discover natural solutions with bioidentical hormones for symptoms of hormonal imbalance.

“Stress Management for Better Health”
with Jennifer Koretsky
Day 1: Tuesday, January 26th
5:30 – 6:30 pm EST World Clock

In this session you’ll:

• Discover some surprising facts about stress and illness
• Find out how mental stress affects your physical health, and vice versa
• Learn some simple stress management techniques that you can start using right away

“Holistic Mental Health: Body-Mind Biology”
with Charles Parker, DO
Day 2: Wednesday, January 27th
2:00 – 3:00 PM EST World Clock

Psychiatric medications are some of the most powerful medications on the market today, and while many people believe that they are widely overprescribed, sometimes for superficial reasons, the problems are more pervasive. Thoughtful psychiatric interventions should include a more comprehensive overview of multiple systems that effect brain function. Dr. Parker will discuss specific conditions to consider, specific titration strategies, and specific laboratory assessments that will broaden your perspective of the core changes occurring in psychiatric practice today. New neuroscience evidence changes thinking.

Dr. Parker does prescribe medication in his psychiatric practice, but he does so only after thoroughly evaluating each patient for other physical and chronic medical conditions that may be causing psychiatric problems. Join Dr. Parker as he explains how understanding underlying biology can improve medical outcomes, prevent difficulties with medications, and offer treatment options beyond psychiatric medications alone.

In this session, you’ll:

• Learn how immune dysfunction can affect mental health
• Discover the fascinating new science on neurotransmitter evaluation
• Learn how hormones and the endocrine system affect mental health

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with Nancy Desjardins, R.N.C.P.
Day 2: Wednesday, January 27th
3:15 – 4:15 pm EST World Clock

In this session, you’ll:

• Learn how to eliminate mid-afternoon energy crashes
• Discover how to eliminate bloating and indigestion after a meal
• Find new ways to reduce your cravings for food and sugar

“Protect Your Hormonal Harmony with the Power of Your Plate”
with Kelley Herring, BS, MBA
Day 2: Wednesday, January 27th
5:15 – 6:15 pm EST World Clock

You can’t see them. You can’t taste them. But “endocrine disruptors” are found in everything from bottled water to baby food. And while these tiny compounds can’t be measured with a spoon or even seen with a microscope, they have a profound effect on your metabolism. They can alter the way (and even the places) your body stores fat. They can interfere with reproduction and fertility and cause birth defects. And they can increase your risk of some of the most common cancers.

In this session you’ll:

• Discover what endocrine disruptors are and how they work in the body to promote disease and obesity
• Learn where they’re found and the simple steps you can take to keep them off your plate
• Find out the kitchen cookware, storage containers and tools you should use to avoid hormone mimics from making their way into your meals

“Fighting Cancer with “Nutrient Logic”: The New Way to Fight Cancer Naturally for Less”

The natural cancer cure camp is always promoting wide-eyed theories. But very little is based on science. It’s mostly hype and hope. The same can be said of the conventional medicine camp. Inundated with the barrage of information and choices, most people simply get scared and either “jump” the border or get “chemo.” Very few realize what the hell they’re doing or why they are doing it. In this wake of blind faith, such decisions can be more dangerous than cancer. Don’t roll the dice with your life. Whatever you choose in your avoidance or fight against cancer, make sure it’s done with logic, not emotion. The wrong choice can be the difference between life and death. While every cancer differs in type, stage, and required treatment (natural or otherwise), Shane “The People’s Chemist” will highlight “universal cancer truths” that can arm you with the logic needed to make the right choice for preventing and overcoming cancer.

In this session, you’ll:

• Understand the “Chemo Cover-up”
• Learn how your body fights cancer
• Discover top Cancer Busters that cost less than $10

Dr. Amen has a new book coming out in February called Change Your Brain, Change Your Body: Use Your Brain to Get and Keep the Body You Have Always Wanted, and he will be presenting new information from this book in this keynote presentation. Dr. Amen will explain how the health of your brain is tied directly to the health of your body, especially as it pertains to weight management. Dr. Amen will also offer numerous recommendations for improving the overall health of your brain and body.

In this session, you’ll:

• Find out the 5 brain types associated with being overweight
• Learn which supplements can best help your specific brain type
• Discover herbs and spices that actually improve the health of your brain