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Psychological, emotional, physical, and
neurologic effects of COVID-19

Beyond the danger for human biology, COVID-19 is wreaking havoc on our emotional and psychiatric health. Adolescents, long established by research as a population at increased risk for depression and suicide, now occupy a particularly worrisome position.
Research supporting associations between social isolation, trauma, and hopelessness with depression and suicide will be explored, with a special focus on adolescent populations.
Evidence-based functional medicine strategies for promoting balanced health and mitigating COVID-19 psychiatric risk will be presented, offering providers and patients hope for sustained wellness through the pandemic and beyond.

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Trauma and social isolation increase risk for depression

COVID-19 increases risk for mental illness and substance abuse and its affect on suicide rates

Strategies to reduce depression, anxiety and psychiatric risks

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DR JAMES GREENBLATT a pioneer in the field of Integrative Medicine, has treated patients with complex behavioural and mood disorders since 1990.
After receiving his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine, Dr Greenblatt completed his psychiatry residency at George Washington University Medical Centre.

Dr Greenblatt went on to pursue a two year fellowship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to become board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry where he also served as the Chief Resident.

During the fellowship, Dr Greenblatt received specialised training in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders that appear in childhood such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), behavioural disorders, autism spectrum disorders, and complex mood and anxiety disorders.

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Professor Ian Brighthope discusses how to
strengthen the defences of the immune system and how to fight viruses with nutrition

In this webinar and Q&A session join distinguished Professor Ian Brighthope as he discusses how to strengthen the defences of the immune system and how to fight viruses with ‘nutrient therapy’.
He will also discuss the political and financial interests that have allowed SARS-Cov2 to flourish.

Learn directly from Professor Ian Brighthope

The Brighthope Clinics and Biocentres were developed in the 1970's and specialised in Nutritional Medicine, Environmental Medicine and Herbal Medicine.

As founding president of Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (ACNEM) for over 26 years, Professor Brighthope pioneered the first post-graduate medical course in nutrition in Australia. He is now the official ambassador of ACNEM.

Professor Brighthope has acted as an advocate of doctors practicing Complementary Medicine for over 35 years.

Professor Brighthope' s lifelong ambition is to help change the way medicine and healthcare is practiced for the benefit of the public and to see nutrition, nutritional and environmental medicine and herbal medicine become the building blocks and keystones to world health and peace.

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Dr Wahls reveals how a therapeutic diet and lifestyle protocol can transform your health!

In this webinar and Q&A session, underlying root causes for neuroinflammation and autoimmune processes will be reviewed from an evolutionary and functional medicine perspective.
Dr Wahls will review her own personal healing journey from a medical perspective and discuss strategies to enhance patient success with dietary and lifestyle interventions. She will also give updates from both her clinical research and clinical practice.
Whether you are a health practitioner wanting to broaden your understanding of complementary and allied therapies, a parent wishing to discover more on nutritional therapies or a natural health advocate, this webinar offers practical, science-based information.

In this webinar you will discover how to...

Specific food and lifestyle interventions to stabilise or reverse neuroinflammatory and autoimmune conditions

Three resilience factors to improve and sustain healthy behaviour changes

At least four mechanisms by which environmental factors contribute to accelerated aging and neurodegenerative disease

Learn directly from Dr Terry Wahls

DR TERRY WAHLS is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials.

In addition, she has secondary appointments in the departments of neurology and epidemiology. In 2018 she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine's Linus Pauling Award for her contributions in research, clinical care and patient advocacy. She is also a patient with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years.

Dr Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day.

She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine, The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles (paperback), and the cookbook The Wahls Protocol Cooking for Life: The Revolutionary Modern Paleo Plan to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions.

Dr Wahls conducts clinical trials that test the effect of nutrition and lifestyle interventions to treat MS and other progressive health problems. She also teaches the public and medical community about the healing power of the Paleo diet and therapeutic lifestyle changes that restore health and vitality to our citizens. She hosts a Wahls Protocol Seminar every summer where anyone can learn how to implement the Protocol with ease and success.

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What is 5G and how does it differ from other
wireless technology?

Why is there a rush to install 5G and why is the government not requiring biological testing of 5G before deployment?

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What is 5G and why we should be concerned about it

How radiation and electronic magnetic fields affect health

The most harmful wireless devices in the home

How parents can protect children

What we can do as a community to ban harmful wireless products

Symptoms that may be caused by radiation and EMF toxicity

Learn directly from Magda Havas, PhD

Magda Havas, PhD is Professor Emerita at Trent University in Canada. She does research on the biological effects of electromagnetic pollution and the beneficial effects of electrotherapies.

Dr. Havas works with diabetics, people with multiple sclerosis, tinnitus, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, heart palpitations and those who are electrically hypersensitive. Her passion is to minimize exposure of pregnant women, infants, children, and teenagers to radio frequency radiation. She serves as a science advisor to various government and non-government organizations in Canada, U.S., Europe, U.K., South Africa, Nepal and Australia.

She has authored 200 publications and is co-author of Public Health SOS: The Shadow Side of the Wireless Revolution. Since 2000, Dr. Havas has lectured in more than 30 countries on the health effects of electrosmog.

The focus of her research is to determine how to help those with electrohypersensitivity and to educate health care providers about the perils of electromagnetic pollution.

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How to prevent opportunistic infections by
optimally supporting our body's immune
defences with our daily choices...

You will also receive 3 Awaken Your Health Recipe PDF Handouts:
– Immune Fortifying Shiitake Ginger Soba Soup
– Chicken and Vegetable Soup
– Golden Inner Glow smoothie and Acai Smoothie Bowl

In this webinar you will discover how to...

How to use food and lifestyle to maximally support your immune system at this uncertain time

Three resilience factors to improve and sustain healthy behaviour changes

Take home some staple immune-boosting recipes

Learn directly from Tabitha McIntosh, ND

TABITHA McINTOSH is an experienced and respected Naturopath, clinical Nutritionist, author, and educator with over 12 years of clinical experience. After attaining her Bachelor of Medical Science (University of NSW, 2001), she went on to pursue her passion for Integrative healthcare by completing an Advanced Diploma Naturopathy & Diploma Nutrition (Nature Care College, 2005), and Post Grad Dip of applied Science in Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (Swinburne University, 2006).

Absolutely passionate about improving the health of everyone she comes in contact with, Tabitha's resume includes presenting at conferences and professional development seminars, as well contributing to publications and Natural Medicine. In addition to running her own Sydney-based private clinical practice for well over a decade, Tabitha has published her first book, One Bite at a Time, co-authored with Dr Sarah Lantz and launched an e-course, I Quit Chemicals.

Tabitha feels privileged to be able to inspire her clients and peers to maximise health outcomes by making conscious choices for the health of the planet, and the health of the future generations.

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The power that made the body,
is in the body, and it heals the body...

In this webinar you will discover how to...

The definition of Innate Intelligence

How physical chemicals and energy waves control life

Which frequencies affect us, may harm us and which ones keep us healthy

The importance of emotions and how to support your emotional load

Tips on 'Becoming the architect of your own health destiny'

Learn directly from Dr Matthew Bourke, DC

MATTHEW BOURKE is the founder and director of Optimum Health Essentials.

Matthew specialises in Chiropractic, Applied Kinesiology, Neuro Emotional Technique, Neurolinguistic Programming (Master Practitioner), Positive Psychology, Peak Performance, Functional Biochemistry and Breath Enhancement Training.

He has worked in Europe and Australia and studied Vedic philosophy and meditation in India.

Matthew has been a speaker at three MINDD conferences (2007/2009/2011), the Gluten Free and Allergy Expo (2009), the MINDD Byron Bay Retreat (2014) and is a co-facilitator at Ananda Retreats with Vedic Meditation teacher Gary Gorrow.

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Immune Support & COVID-19
Protectition for the Whole Family!

Learn directly from Dr Ron Ehrlich

DR LEILA MASSON is an integrative Paediatrician who combines Allopathic Medicine with a nutritional and biomedical approach to help her patients attain optimal health.

She received her medical doctorate from the University of Berlin, did her paediatric specialist training at the University of California at San Francisco. She received her Masters in Public Health from Harvard University and her Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Leila has worked in the US and Europe and volunteered for 2 years setting up a clinic in Pakistan, before moving to New Zealand, where she has lived and worked for the last 12 years.

Leila has a busy practice in Auckland, specializing in a holistic approach to children's health problems, including allergies, asthma, behaviour problems, autism spectrum disorders and ADHD. Dr Masson is a member of the Mindd Scientific Advisory Board

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Discover proven integrative therapies to treat mood and behavioural disorders in children and adolescents.

Integrative Medicine is Good Psychiatric Care
Dr James Greenblatt, child/adolescent Psychiatrist, a pioneer in Integrative Medicine for mental health, reviews the research and his three decades of clinical experience on the role of nutrition in youth mental health, including ADHD, depression, anxiety, suicide, eating and behavioural disorders.

In this webinar you will discover how to...

Discover the many factors that affect various mental health conditions

Learn the role of environmental toxins and infections in mental health conditions

Understand the connection between vegetarian and vegan diets and mental health conditions

Discover an integrative approach to treating depression, anxiety, ADHD & eating disorders

Learn directly from Professor James Greenblatt

DR JAMES GREENBLATT a pioneer in the field of INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE has treated patients with complex behavioural and mood disorders since 1990.

After receiving his medical degree from George Washington University School of Medicine, Dr Greenblatt completed his psychiatry residency at George Washington University Medical Centre.

Dr Greenblatt went on to pursue a two year fellowship at John Hopkins University School of Medicine to become board certified in child and adolescent psychiatry where he also served as the Chief Resident. During the fellowship, Dr Greenblatt received specialized training in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders that appear in childhood, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), behavioral disorders, autism spectrum disorders, and complex mood and anxiety disorders.

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Integrative Paediatrician Dr Leila Masson will present on common causes of ADHD behaviour such as nutritional deficiencies, toxic exposure and environmental factors

In this webinar and Q&A session, underlying root causes for neuroinflammation and autoimmune processes will be reviewed from an evolutionary and functional medicine perspective.
Dr Wahls will review her own personal healing journey from a medical perspective and discuss strategies to enhance patient success with dietary and lifestyle interventions. She will also give updates from both her clinical research and clinical practice.
Whether you are a health practitioner wanting to broaden your understanding of complementary and allied therapies, a parent wishing to discover more on nutritional therapies or a natural health advocate, this webinar offers practical, science-based information.

In this webinar you will discover how to...

Identify common nutritional deficiencies that cause ADHD like behaviours

Recognise physical signs of specific deficiencies

Know how to support healthy lifestyle (sleep, exercise, limited screen time, avoidance of environmental toxins) to improve children's focus, attention, and learning

Learn directly from Dr Leila Masson

DR LEILA MASSONis an Integrative Paediatrician and author of "Children's Health A-Z", a parent's guide to natural therapies for common childhood ailments.

She specialises in nutritional and environmental medicine with a focus on complex chronic illness in children including allergies, asthma, anxiety, behavioural problems, developmental delay, Autism and ADHD.

Dr Masson has her Medical Degree from Freie University in Berlin and a Masters in Public Health from Harvard. She is also a Board Certified lactation consultant. She lectures internationally on the subject of nutrition and an Integrative Medicine approach to paediatric issues.

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Paediatric Speech Pathologist Susan Marden and Nutritionist & Herbalist Brittany Darling will present the latest evidence based therapies in both the allied health and biomedicine space

Whether you are a health practitioner wanting to broaden your understanding of complementary and allied therapies for your development delay patients, a parent wishing to discover more on nutritional therapies and how gut health is vital to your child’s health or even an educator.

In this webinar you will discover how to...

Understand the NDIS and funding available to families

Understand the expectations of evidence based allied health therapy (ABA, speech and occupational therapy)

Understand the mechanisms by which integrative medicine (including nutrition) can support better therapy outcomes

How to address fussy eating from a behavioral, nutritional and gastrointestinal perspective, while also reducing parental stress

How to approach sleep holistically, taking into account underlying nutritional biochemistry and behavioral interventions

Learn directly from Brittany Darling & Susan Marden

BRITTANY DARLINGis an accredited nutritionist, herbalist and autism mum.
Her mission is to work with "people who really want to get well and be healthy" by guiding them to nutritional and herbal medicines that provide a personalised and core cause approach.

The results can be life changing with less inflammation, better digestion and a stronger immune system for optimal health and vitality.

SUSAN MARDENis the Director and Senior Speech Pathologist at OneOnOne Children's Therapy. She has been working in the public and private Speech Pathology sector for the past 35 years and leads a team of 10 therapists in her Bondi Junction clinic.

She has worked in the areas of head injury, rehabilitation, feeding issues and learning difficulties. She has presented workshops around Australia and regularly appears on Kinderling Radio. Her primary clinical interest is working with children with autism spectrum disorder.

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Ravi Singh

Teacher of Kundalini Yoga

Kundalini Yoga for Resilience
Kundalini is the energy of life itself, the basic bio-energy of our being. When this energy is flowing optimally we can live healthy, happy, and inspired. Kundalini Yoga is an ancient system that is perfectly suited for life as we know it. In this talk (with Jennifer Greenwald), Ravi Singh will discuss the basic components of Kundalini Yoga and share effective but eminently doable techniques to energize, reduce anxiety, and strengthen the immune system. These techniques can yield tangible on-the-spot benefits in a little as one minute.

Ravi Singh has 45 years experience as a Teacher of Kundalini Yoga. He is Author (with Ana Brett) of The Kundalini Yoga Book: Life in the Vast Lane, and a Co-Founder of Yoga Unify, a new paradigm for yoga. He has presented Trainings and workshops worldwide including the psychology Dept. at Yale Univ., Fortune 500 companies, and to many at-risk populations. Ravi and his Australian-born partner Ana Brett have trained over 300 Kundalini practitioners and authored 26 DVDs with their primary goal being “is to help people learn to live a healthy and happy, more peaceful life that continues to challenge them to grow. We teach a system of exercise and meditation that fully integrates the body, mind, and spirit.”

Simon Borg Olivier

Physiotherapist

Simple Physical Tools for Resilience:
Safe, accessible and effective posture, movement and breathing for health, happiness and longevity.

Learning Objectives:

Understanding the need to be resilient

What resilience needs to look like on a physical level

Our physical tools to develop resilience

Ways to develop your physical resilience

Ways to develop your physiological resilience

Ways to develop your mental resilience

Simon Borg-Olivier, MSc BAppSc (Physiotherapy) APAM c-IAYT, has been practicing traditional forms of posture, movement, breathing, and mental control for 50 years. He has been teaching for 38 years and has been a registered physiotherapist for 23 years. Simon works as a research scientist and a University lecturer. He has been regularly invited to teach about lifestyle, posture, movement, breathing, and meditation at conferences, festivals, and intensive teacher training courses internationally since 1990. He is also co-director of YogaSynergy, one of Australia’s oldest and most respected yoga schools, which has a style based on a deep understanding of modern medical science and traditional forms of exercise and therapy from all over the world. Simon has studied with great traditional masters from Tibet, Japan, India, and China. Along with his business partner and fellow physiotherapist, Bianca Machliss, Simon has co-authored many books and scientific articles including ‘Applied Anatomy and Physiology of Yoga’, which is the textbook for two courses they teach at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Currently, Simon conducts intensive training courses in India, Bali, Europe, and Australia. He also teaches many online courses on the applications of posture, movement, and breathing for fitness, internal health, wellbeing, and longevity.

Dr James Neuenschwander

Founder of Bio Energy Medical Center

Why the World is Making You Crazy
Impact of Environmental Toxins on Mental Health
We live in a toxic world constantly bombarding our system and pushing us to the edge of our ability to detoxify. Most of us know about the links between toxins and our general health—risk for cancer, chronic disease, autoimmunity, etc.—but how many of us realize that toxins are intimately connected with our mental health? In this presentation, we will review some of the relevant pathways that connect environmental toxicity to our mental health: mitochondria, immune, hormonal. We will then review the current literature for evidence connecting toxicity and psychiatric disorders like depression, schizophrenia, and autism. Finally, we will discuss solutions to these issues—things you can implement in your practice starting tomorrow.

Learning Objectives:

Discover which toxins impact brain function through a variety of mechanisms by impacting immune function, mitochondrial activity, hormone production, and directly impacting neuronal health and function

Understand which toxins alter the immune response increasing the risk for inflammation induced brain dysfunction

Know how mitochondria heavily influence brain function, and how mitochondrial function is directly impacted by multiple environmental toxins

Learn how environmental toxins have been directly linked with depression, anxiety, increase in the stress response, autism, and learning disabilities

How decreasing exposure and detoxification can positively impact the outcome of environmental exposures

James Neuenschwander, M.D. (a.k.a. Dr. Neu) founded Bio Energy Medical Center, a multidisciplinary, integrative medical practice located in Ann Arbor, MI, Since the formation of his practice in 1988, he has treated children and adults with complex, chronic health problems which have not responded to conventional therapies and strives to promote wellness through prevention. His approach consists of searching for and remediating root causes. He also founded and is co-owner of Creating Brighter Futures, an ABA center, located in Ann Arbor, MI. Dr. Neu graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science Degree, in the honors program in cellular and molecular biology from the University of Michigan in 1981. He went on to receive his Medical Degree, from the University of Michigan in 1985. After graduation, he completed three years of a surgical residency at the University of Michigan before leaving voluntarily to pursue a career in integrative medicine. Dr. Neu is board-certified in Emergency Medicine (BCEM/AAPS), Integrative and Holistic Medicine (ABIM/AAPS, ABIHM), as well as Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine (ABAARM). In addition, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) and holds a certification in chelation therapy. He is a member of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, American Academy of Anti- Aging Medicine, American College for the Advancement of Medicine, and the International Lyme Associated Disease Society. He has been a Defeat Autism Now (DAN!) practitioner since 2007. He has been a member of Medical Academy Pediatric Special Needs (MAPS) since its founding, a fellow since 2014, and currently a faulty and executive board member of the organization. He has over 30 years of experience in integrative medicine and over 25 years of experience in emergency medicine.

Caroline Meyer ND

Naturopath

Helping Your Teens Build Mental Health Resilience
In this timely and evidence-informed talk, learn about how the COVID pandemic has impacted the mental health of children and teens. We will explore ways to build mental health resilience in kids through first creating a foundation of healthy habits for physical health. We will then discuss practical and researched mental resilience strategies that parents and youth alike can implement. If you are a parent, a teen or a practitioner who treats youth, this presentation is for you. Bring your questions about teens to our Q&A session

Learning Objectives:

What is the impact of the COVID pandemic and its aftermath on youth mental health

Understand the foundations of building mental health starting with physical well-being – how stress affects immune and nervous system health

Learn practical mental health habits that build resilience –mindfulness, focus on family, and school-based approaches

Understand how mental health interacts with societal pressures and the natural environment

Caroline Meyer is a naturopath who is passionate about working with children, teens and their diverse families to make substantial and sustained changes in their health. Her particular clinical interests are in pediatrics, mental health, sleep medicine, mindfulness & integrating trauma. Caroline graduated from the ND program at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) in 2005 where she is currently a part-time academic and clinical faculty member. Caroline speaks and writes extensively about topics related to pediatrics and mental health.

Katie Kimball

Certified Stress Mastery Educator

Redefining “Kid-Friendly Food” by Helping Kids Make Friends with Their Food
In this session with Certified Stress Mastery Educator and kids cooking teacher Katie Kimball, parents who wish their kids would eat more healthy food with fewer battles will fill their “toolboxes” with practical ideas to stress less and connect more. Starting with the environment at the dinner table and moving into the kitchen, Katie will help you understand the power of teaching kids to cook.

Learning Objectives:

Stress-less family mealtime routines - YOU choose the environment

Most powerful way to get kids to eat their veggies

Brain science about why cooking is helpful to kids

Pre-Recorded Demo: Kids make blended green soup

Practical: the Kids Cook Real Food 3-step process to teach kids skills in the kitchen

Where to start at 3 ages (preschool, early el, upper el)

Katie Kimball is the voice of healthy kids cooking, working to restore the health of our young generation one kitchen at a time. She’s a cookbook author, Certified Stress Mastery Educator, and regular TV contributor who has shared her journey to real food and natural living for 12 years at Kitchen Stewardship, a blog that helps families stay healthy without going crazy. Along with her 4 children, she created the Kids Cook Real Food eCourse to help other parents teach their kids to cook, build family connection in the kitchen, and supercharge kids’ confidence and creativity. In 2020 the Wall Street Journal recommended Kids Cook Real Food as the best online cooking class for kids. She is actively masterminding the Kids’ Meal Revolution, with a goal of every child being able to cook.

Dr Frank Golik

Integrative Doctor

Environmental Impacts on Children’s Health
With the emerging epidemics of Autism, ADHD, allergies and anxiety, it is clear that environmental factors are driving the sharp increase as epidemics by definition are not genetic. A myriad of environmental assaults have contributed to the rise of disease in our children and raise human health concerns about ongoing harm to our environment. Integrative practitioners can do much to mitigate harm in patients of all ages through education to lessen exposure and therapies that prevent and treat environmental illness.

Learning Objectives:

Gain an understanding of the increased impact of environmental harm and toxins upon growing children compared with adults

Gain insights into the myriad of environmental assaults that can impact on children

Appreciate the mechanisms of harm inflicted on children

Consider measures and actions to lessen the impacts

Raise concerns about ongoing harm to the environment

Dr Frank Golik graduated from University of Queensland with 2nd class Hons in 1975; 2 years junior RMO at Royal Brisbane Hospital; 1 year as senior RMO at Atherton Hospital, Nth Qld. He commenced in solo Private Family Practice in Clayfield, Brisbane in 1979. He later formed a multi disciplinary clinic in Clayfield in 1995. In 2016 he had moved his clinic to more spacious and functional facility at Stafford in Brisbane. Dr Golik gained his fellowship in the RACGP in 1982; and is a Fellow and occasional lecturer of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine. His special areas of interest and passion are Autism, ASD, ADHD, Musculoskeletal medicine; Dietary and lifestyle therapy; Thyroid conditions; and the Metabolic Syndrome. He has attended the Walsh Outreach / Training since 2005 and has also attended the MINDD conferences since 2005. He is the first Australian doctor to complete the MedMAPS (USA) training and qualify for its Fellowship. He is passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of children of any age.

Professor Ian Brighthope

Founding Director of ACNEM

Pandemic Freedom
Profesor Brighthope will review a large body of evidence supporting his assertion that “Pandemics should be a thing of the past”.

Learning Objectives:

Know the research that supports use of supplements for prevention of COVID-19

Understand which research supports supplement & medications to treat COVID-19

Gain research-based knowledge in the treatment of Long Covid and Post-Vaccination Syndromes

Professor Ian Brighthope graduated in Agricultural Science in 1965. For the next three years he was involved in teaching and research. His research interests were in the fields of agriculture and veterinary nutrition, including the nutritional health of cattle, horses, sheep, dogs, pigs and poultry. His involvement in the design and implementation of field trials provided him with a deep respect for scientific methods, its strengths and its weaknesses.

Matthew Bourke

Founder of Optimum Health Essentials

Healing Trauma: Physically, Psychologically and Nutritionally – An Integrative Approach to Adapting to a Rapidly Changing World
Stress and uncertainty trigger different emotional and physiological responses in individuals depending on the extent of unresolved negative emotion or trauma that they are holding. A common pattern that can be seen clinically is that stress can cause our nervous system to regress into old reflex pathways that can leave us feeling overwhelmed and “frozen with fear”. This paralysed state causes us to procrastinate on what we need to do in order to adapt to change and results in increasing levels of anxiety and fear.
Healing these patterns can be amazingly quick when we address the physical, biochemical and emotional imbalances and not see these as separate symptoms. In this presentation Matthew will explain the underlying theory, approach and give case examples of integrative healing and how this can support people to feel greater agency over the challenges that life presents them.

Learning Objectives:

Discover clinical evidence to fend off the outrageous claim that properly done detoxification is a scam

Learn the importance of the new concept of the exposome and its relevance to neurodevelopment

Understand the impact of air pollution and other toxic exposures on neurodevelopment, and clinical trial insights into how to deal with them

Discover clinical trial data supporting the use garlic, green tea, broccoli sprouts and dietary Brassicas, curcumin and NAC for detoxification

Learn simple protocols for managing detoxification in a clinical setting

Matthew is the founder, director and principle clinician at Optimum Health Essentials, an integrative natural health clinic that has been established on the Northern Beaches of Sydney for over 20 years. Matthew is a keynote speaker, personal health coach and mindset consultant, founder and facilitator of Optimum Health Essentials Detox Retreats in Byron Bay, and has been on the Mindd Foundation Practitioner Advisory Board since 2008 and has presented at multiple Mindd conferences. Matthew specialises in Chiropractic, Applied Kinesiology, Neuro Emotional Technique, Neurolinguistic Programming (Master Practitioner), Positive Psychology, Peak Performance, Functional Biochemistry and Breath Work. He has worked in Europe and Australia and studied Vedic philosophy and meditation in Australia and India. At 24 years old Matthew was diagnosed with an aggressive inflammatory arthritis that threatened his career and freedom to pursue the life of adventure he was planning on. Conventional medicine offered at best pain relief, but it quickly became apparent that the prescribed medications damaged the gut significantly, had many other side effects, and seemed to perpetuate the condition. Thankfully through a program of diet modification, fasting, mind/body work, energy medicine and meditation, Matthew regained his health and vitality and now lives his life following his passions and supporting others to do the same. Matthew’s approach is a truly integrative one that assesses physical, biochemical, emotional and ultimately spiritual elements of the human condition.

Lyn Patrick

Naturopath

Environmental Toxicants & Endocrine Effects
Endocrine disrupting chemicals are known to cause infertility, breast and prostate cancer, brain damage, and immune toxicity. The specific toxicant in this webinar, PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) is a world-wide pollutant that was produced by Monsanto from the 1940s up until 1979 when they were taken out of commerce due to their carcinogenicity. However, they are another “forever” chemical, just like perfluorinates, they do not break down easily either in water, soil, air, or in human bodies where they can last for multiple decades. Understanding the sources of exposure and how to support elimination of this chemical class from the body will be included in the lecture.

Learning Objectives:

Understanding the impact of endocrine-disrupting chemicals on human health

Identifying the source of PCB exposure

Learn methods of detoxification of PCBs

Lyn Patrick, ND, graduated from Bastyr University in 1984 with a doctorate in naturopathic medicine and has been in private practice as a state licensed naturopathic physician in Arizona and Colorado for 35 years. She is a published author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed medical journals, she is a past contributing editor for Alternative Medicine Review. She speaks internationally on environmental medicine, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, endocrine disruption, metal toxicology, and other topics. She is also a founding partner and presenter at the Environmental Health Symposium, an annual international environmental medicine conference based in the United States. After the passing of her longtime colleague Dr. Walter Crinnion, she has taken on the job of continuing to educate primary care providers in the area of environmental medicine training through the SpiritMed Certification Course and Crinnion Opinion podcasts. In her spare time, she enjoys biking, hiking, and kayaking the mountains, lakes, and rivers of southwestern Colorado.

Dr Robert Naviaux MD, PhD

Mitochondrial & Metabolic Expert

Exposome-Metabolome Interactions in Autism Spectrum Disorder
The Surprising Effect of Low-Level Environmental Chemical Exposures

Learning Objectives:

Understand the Fundamentals of Cell Danger Response & the Healing Cycle

Know the Mitochondria essential in the healing cycle

Learn the science of Metabolomics & Exposomics

Robert Naviaux, MD, PhD is the founder and co-director of the Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center (MMDC), and Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Pathology, and Genetics at UCSD, where he directs a core laboratory for metabolomics. He is the co-founder and a former president of the Mitochondrial Medicine Society (MMS), and a founding associate editor of the journal Mitochondrion. He is an internationally known expert in human genetics, inborn errors of metabolism, metabolomics, and mitochondrial medicine. Dr. Naviaux is the discoverer of the cause of Alpers syndrome—the oldest Mendelian form of mitochondrial disease—and the developer of the first DNA test to diagnose it. His lab also discovered the first mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations that cause genetic forms of autism and the metabolic features of the cell danger response (CDR). He directed the first FDA-approved clinical trial to study the safety and efficacy of the antipurinergic drug suramin as a new treatment for autism spectrum disorder (ASD). His lab has developed methods in metabolomics and environmental toxicology that have shown many complex chronic disorders like ASD and chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) have a metabolic signature that can be used in diagnosis and lead to fresh insights to treatment. Information about Naviaux Lab research can be found on the web at: naviauxlab.ucsd.edu. Dr. Naviaux’s publications have been cited over 6000 times.

Tabitha McIntosh ND

Naturopath & Nutritionist

Protecting Male Fertility
Tabitha will cover in-utero development, infancy, childhood, adolescence and adult male fertility, highlighting the most vulnerable windows of development and how we can protect our boys and men from environmental insults at each stage. She will highlight research linking exposure to specific endocrine disruptors to various brain-immuno-gut issues like ADHD, anxiety, autism, and allergies. The talk will also highlight lifestyle habits that can sabotage male fertility, cautioning against exposures that appear to be diminishing the health and fertility of our men.

Learning Objectives:

Discover documented links between prenatal exposure to particular chemicals and adverse health outcomes that span the life course and include impacts on fertility, pregnancy, neuro-development and cancer

Understand every day habits and products compromising male development, health and fertility across the lifespan, and how to sidestep them

Learn the landscape of fertility, plummeting sperm counts, and restoring the critical role of our men in healthy pregnancy and beyond

Tabitha McIntosh is an experienced and respected Naturopath, clinical Nutritionist, author, and educator with over 12 years of clinical experience. After attaining her Bachelor of Medical Science (University of NSW, 2001), she went on to pursue her passion for Integrative healthcare by completing an Advanced Diploma Naturopathy & Diploma Nutrition (Nature Care College, 2005), and Post Grad Dip of applied Science in Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (Swinburne University, 2006). Absolutely passionate about improving the health of everyone she comes in contact with, Tabitha’s resume includes presenting at conferences and professional development seminars, as well contributing to publications and Natural Medicine. In addition to running her own Sydney-based private clinical practice for well over a decade, Tabitha has published her first book, One Bite at a Time, co-authored with Dr Sarah Lantz and launched an e-course, I Quit Chemicals.

Dr Leila Masson

Integrative Paediatrician

Lead and BPA: An Update on 2 Common Neurodevelopmental Toxins
Dr Masson will present case histories and recent research about the neurodevelopmental effects of lead and BPA; she will outline how to assess a child with suspected toxicities, how to find the source, which organisations to contact for help, and give practical advice on how to reduce exposure.

Learning Objectives:

Know the toxic effects of lead, how to assess a child with suspected lead toxicity, common sources of lead in the household, and how to test surfaces for lead; who to call for help; useful websites; treatment of lead toxicity

Understand the connection of BPA and gene activity in utero that may increase the risk of ASD in the offspring; the toxic effects of BPA; how to assess the research literature on BPA; government guidelines on BPA; how to reduce exposure

Dr Leila Masson is a consultant paediatrician who specialises in nutritional and environmental medicine for children’s health issues, including allergies, asthma, behaviour problems, autism spectrum disorders and ADHD. She has a busy clinic in Sydney where she sees children and mentors doctors in integrative paediatrics. Dr Masson received her medical doctorate from the Free University of Berlin and did her paediatric specialist training at the University of California in San Francisco. She received her Masters in Public Health from Harvard University and her Diploma in Tropical Medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is a fellow of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine. Dr Masson is a board member of AIMA, the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association. She is also on the board of professional advisors of La Leche League New Zealand. Leila has worked in the US, Europe, New Zealand, and volunteered for 2 years setting up a rural clinic in Pakistan. Dr Masson lectures internationally on the subject of children’s nutrition and an integrative medicine approach to paediatric issues, including autism spectrum disorders, ADHD, allergies, recurrent infections, and autoimmune diseases. She speaks English, German, French, and Spanish. She is the author of “Children’s Health A-Z” a parent’s guide to natural therapies for common childhood ailments.

William Shaw PhD

Founder of Great Plains Laboratory

The Role of Mold and Mycotoxins in a Wide Variety of neurological and Psychiatric Diseases
The role of mold in human disease has been recognized as a significant health factor for more than 2000 years. A long passage in the book Leviticus in the Old Testament from about 500 BC describes the importance of mold remediation in the home to prevent disease. Since then, mold exposure due mainly to home mold exposure has been implicated in peer reviewed journals as a major factor in autism, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic latero sclerosis, depression, anxiety, attention deficit with hyperactivity, and multiple sclerosis. In addition, there is strong evidence for mold causation of chronic fatigue syndrome, cancer, autoimmune diseases, asthma, pulmonary infections, and systemic infections. The lecture will review the scientific literature implicating mold as a cause of the diseases outlined above, case studies from consultations at The Great Plains Laboratory, mold treatment recommendations, testing for the presence of mold, review of the most common molds, a review of a recent peer-reviewed article on mold treatment resulting in rapid reversal of autism, and evidence for mold infection in greater than 90% of children with autism.

Learning Objectives:

Know the most common reasons for mold exposures

Become familiar with the scientific literature connecting a variety of neurological and psychiatric illnesses with mold exposure

Discover the different kinds of mycotoxins and which molds produce them as well as treatments to reduce mycotoxins

Learn about the published case study in which anti-mold treatment completely reversed all symptoms of autism within a very short time period

Understand how markers on the organic acid test can be used to indicate a colonization of mold within the gastrointestinal tract

Dr. William Shaw, PhD, is an American chemist, autism researcher and the founder and director of the Great Plains Laboratory, based in Lenexa, Kansas. William Shaw, is board certified in the fields of clinical chemistry and toxicology by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry. Before he founded The Great Plains Laboratory, Inc.,
Dr. Shaw worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Children’s Mercy Hospital, University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Medicine, and Smith Kline Laboratories. He is the author of Biological Treatments for Autism and PDD, originally published in 1998 and Autism: Beyond the Basics, published in 2009. He is also a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide.

Dr James Greenblatt

Integrative Doctor

Answers to Anorexia Nervosa: A New Treatment Model for Hope and Healing
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a biological illness fundamentally sustained by starvation and malnutrition, whether self-imposed or the product of genetic, psycho-social, or environmental circumstances. Approaching AN solely as a psychological disorder does not account for the brain’s response to a shortage of essential nutrients. Nutritional deficiencies arising from prolonged self-starvation profoundly disrupt normal brain function, and psychological interventions alone are often not sufficient for patients whose brain and neurotransmitter functioning is sub-optimal.
Join board-certified child & adult psychiatrist, author and eating disorders expert, Dr. James Greenblatt, for this presentation exploring new treatment solutions for anorexia nervosa. Dr. Greenblatt will discuss current research, various treatment modalities, and key nutritional deficiencies. These solutions will offer parents, patients, and professionals a path to lasting recovery from anorexia.

Learning Objectives:

Identify three or more essential biologic functions of essential fatty acids (EFAs) and their relevance to AN pathogenesis

Discuss research-supported etiologic links between celiac disease and AN

Identify strategies to prevent / mitigate micronutrient deficiency in vegans / vegetarians

Discuss symptomatic parallels between AN and zinc deficiency

A pioneer in the field of integrative medicine, James M. Greenblatt, MD, has treated patients since 1988. After receiving his medical degree and completing his psychiatry residency at George Washington University, Dr. Greenblatt completed a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Johns Hopkins Medical School. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer at Walden Behavioral Care in Waltham, MA and serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts University School of Medicine and Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine. Dr. Greenblatt has lectured internationally on the scientific evidence for nutritional interventions in psychiatry and mental illness. He is the author of seven books, including Finally Focused: The Breakthrough Natural Treatment Plan for ADHD. He is the founder of Psychiatry Redefined, an educational platform dedicated to the transformation of psychiatry, which offers online CME-approved courses, webinars, and fellowships for professionals about functional and integrative medicine for mental illness.

Dr Arwen Podesta

Integrative Psychiatrist

Preventing Adddictions in Our Youth
Substance use is present and prevalent worldwide. Experimentation with substances in youth, while the brain is still developing, is risky. Sometimes experimentation can lead to addiction or other substance use disorders. Addiction is treatable and preventable..

Learning Objectives:

Understand the current trends in youth substance use

Identify key components of risk

Have a sense of general prevention strategies

Know some treatments for youth substance issues

Arwen Podesta, MD is a board certified adult psychiatrist with sub-specializations in addiction medicine, forensic psychiatry, and integrative & holistic medicine. She has a background in biochemistry, complementary medicine and massage therapy. She was excited to successfully merge her intellectual and vocational interests by becoming a medical doctor. She graduated from University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, and then moved to New Orleans for a psychiatry residency at Louisiana State University. She then pursued a fellowship in Forensic Psychiatry at Tulane University. After Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Podesta was involved with psychiatric care for the most needy and disenfranchised. She was awarded the Gambit’s 40 Under 40 in 2009. She has been actively working in the public sector as Medical Director of ACER and also consults with Orleans Criminal Court Intervention (Drug Court), and Municipal Court Diversion Services. She was also chair and co-creator of the New Orleans Forensic Mental Health Coalition, which is now run by the New Orleans City Health Department. Additionally, she is a consulting Addiction Medicine specialist and holds privileges at Easy Jefferson Hospital. At all of these venues and programs, her main focus is access to holistic mental health and addiction treatment, and rational prescribing practices. Dr. Podesta continues to teach and pursue academics, is on the Tulane Clinical Faculty, is on a dissertation committee at UTH Dallas, teaches at the NOPD Academy, and consults with several other organizations and institutions. After opening Podesta Psychiatry LLC in 2012, Dr. Podesta has been voted into New Orleans Magazine Top Doctors every year.

Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride

Integrative Doctor

The Changing Environment and Our Health

Learning Objectives:

Know the cause of our modern epidemics of chronic diseases (physical and mental), learning disabilities in children, infertility, allergies and other health problems

Learn what we all can do to adapt to our changing environment in order to maintain our health and the health of our children

Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride holds a degree in Medicine and Postgraduate degrees in both Neurology and Human Nutrition. She specializes in nutrition for children and adults with behavioral and learning disabilities, and adults with digestive and immune system disorders. As a parent of a child diagnosed with learning disabilities, Dr Campbell McBride was acutely aware of the difficulties facing other parents like her, and she has devoted much of her time to helping these families. She realized that nutrition played a critical role in helping children and adults to overcome their disabilities, and has pioneered the use of probiotics in this field. Dr Campbell McBride is the author of Gut & Psychology Syndrome, Put Your Heart in Your Mouth and Vegetarianism Explained. She is also the creator of the GAPS diet.

Professor Kerry Bone

Co-Founder of R&D at MediHerb

Natural Mitigation Strategies for the Impact of Environmental Toxins on Neurodevelopment
Media articles and websites carry stories about how the naturopathic concept of detoxification is just one big scam perpetrated on an ignorant and gullible public. Touting the health benefits of detoxification particularly catches the ire of the scientific fundamentalist websites. Even Prince Charles was caught up in the controversy when his Duchy brand launched a range of herbal detox tinctures in 2009. But there is mounting evidence that environmental toxin exposure can affect a range of health problems, including neurodevelopment, leading to or exacerbating conditions such as low-functioning autism, ADHD and other learning disabilities. In this presentation, Kerry will review the clinical evidence supporting the role of key herbs and some nutrients in dealing with environmental toxins. The review will be presented in the context of the four principles of dealing with toxin exposure, namely avoid, protect, repair and eliminate. To further place some of this data into context, there will also be a brief highlighting of the very recent evidence clearly showing the potential impact of diverse environmental insults in neurodevelopmental disorders.

Learning Objectives:

Discover clinical evidence to fend off the outrageous claim that properly done detoxification is a scam

Learn the importance of the new concept of the exposome and its relevance to neurodevelopment

Understand the impact of air pollution and other toxic exposures on neurodevelopment, and clinical trial insights into how to deal with them

Discover clinical trial data supporting the use garlic, green tea, broccoli sprouts and dietary Brassicas, curcumin and NAC for detoxification

Learn simple protocols for managing detoxification in a clinical setting

Professor Kerry Bone is an industry leader and innovation driver, directing the research program at MediHerb. As recognition of this role (in conjunction with his research colleagues), MediHerb was awarded the American Botanical Council’s (ABC’s) Varro E. Tyler Award for excellence in Phytomedicinal (Herbal) Research in 2016. He is co-author of more than 40 scientific papers on herbal research, including original research and systematic reviews and currently serves as the only Australian member on the editorial board of the journal Phytomedicine, the top herbal research journal in the world. Over three decades, Kerry has also published several hundred articles on herbal therapy in professional journals. As part of his educational role, Kerry is Principal of the Australian College of Phytotherapy and also Adjunct Professor at New York Chiropractic College, providing input into their postgraduate applied nutrition program. Kerry has written or co-written six popular textbooks on herbal medicine, including the second edition of Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy with Simon Mills, which was awarded the 2013 James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award by the American Botanical Council (ABC). His seventh book on Functional Herbal Therapy is with the publishers and expected to be available in mid-2021. He still maintains a busy herbal practice in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia where he has been in continuous service for more than 36 years. In 2015 Kerry’s lifelong contribution to the field of herbal medicine was recognised with his receiving the prestigious Lady Cilento award from the complementary medicine industry in Australia.

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