NUTRITION IN THE HERBAL PARADIGM
CERTIFICATE COURSE
Course Materials + Tuition
- 18 Audios (14 hours and 35 minutes total)
- Notes & Slides
- PDF Resources (30 total)
This is the Certificate option for this course, which means you will receive faculty support, have your coursework graded, and earn a certificate upon completion of all coursework. The price includes tuition.
This course is a part of the curriculum for the Advanced Western Materia Medica program.
Overview
In this course you will:
Learn the historical balance of macronutrients and micronutrients human dietary anthropology. .
Learn the unique new deficiencies and imbalances that have arisen since the industrial revolution, and especially since the mid-twentieth century.
Review the most common deficiencies and imbalances present in the modern North American patient.
Learn a general but flexible corrective nutritional regimen for the average modern patient appropriate for most individuals.
Study imbalances, dietary patterns, and the pathologies that most often accompany them, including The SAD Diet (Standard American Diet) pattern; The Disordered Eating pattern 3) The Junk-Food Vegetarian pattern 4) The Stress-Carbohydrate pattern 5) Insulin Resistance pattern and 6) the Food Intolerance pattern.
We will review the role and actions of the most important nutrients in the protocols in that regimen, including protein, meat, iron, carnitine, essential fatty acids, magnesium, calcium, vitamin D, and the B vitamins.
Learn the foods which are highest in the above nutrients, and receive food lists that can be used as patient handouts.
Learn specific nutritional protocols to support normal immunity, reduce inflammation, correct insulin resistance and improve diabetic control, correct female hormone imbalances, and address chronic stress or fatigue.
Learn strategies for making dietary changes by reinforcing the positive urge for nutrition rather than deprivational strategies of elimination.
Learn the positive vital intent of cravings, and how to satisfying them with authentic nutrition.
Study a set of unusually nutrient dense but common and inexpensive foods that can be added to the habitual diet to increase nutrition and satisfaction.
Learn simple recipes that can be incorporated for regular use to increase minerals, antioxidants, and fiber in the diet
In many cases a permanent cure comes not from an herbal medicine, but rather from correction of a nutrient deficiency, addition of specific foods, and work to find the optimal dietary pattern for the individual. For the herbalist entering the field of clinical nutrition, foods and nutrients might be studied in the paradigm of herbal actions. If magnesium were an herb, it would be classified as antispasmodic, cardio-tonic, chi tonic and adaptogenic. Supplementation to correct this common deficiency should accompany herbs given for those purposes. It may be more important than any herb with those actions because it may resolve root causes rather than simply address deficiency symptoms. If a deficiency is not corrected,, no amount of herbal medicine will effectively solve the problem.