Course overview
Gut/Brain Axis: Health, Anxiety and Brain Fog
In this course, you will learn personalized lifestyle medicine strategies for improving intestinal wall integrity—specifically with the use of targeted dietary and lifestyle interventions—including nutrigenomic approaches, “behaviorceuticals” (physical activities that improve mental health), and targeted prebiotics and probiotics.
Faculty
Sara Gottfried, MD
Conference Series
AIHM 2019 Annual Conference
Required Lessons
1
Time to Complete
1 hr 15 min
Non-CME Eligible*
0 Credits
What you will learn
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Course Summary
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By the end of this course, learners will be able to:
- Identify the normal and abnormal function of the gut-brain axis and how it impacts the immune and central nervous system, particularly the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-thyroid-gonadal (HPATG) axis.
- Recognize the role of the gut microbiome, dysbiosis, and intestinal permeability in stress, mood, an overactive HPATG, anxiety, and brain fog.
- Review evidence-based strategies for improving the gut-brain axis with a more integrative approach that incorporates nutrigenomics, food plan, psychobiotics, behaviorceuticals, and other microbiome-based systematic approaches.
Course includes:
Included in this course
Course Faculty
Sara Gottfried, MD
About Sara
Sara Gottfried MD is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist and author of three New York Times bestsellers, including The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. Dr. Gottfried graduated from Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and completed residency at UCSF in Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is the founder and Chief Medical
Officer of Gottfried Institute, based in Berkeley, CA.
*CME/CEU Credits
The CME for this course has expired, however you will continue to have access to your purchased content.