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Nutrition in the Herbal Paradigm

Nutrition in the Herbal Paradigm

This product is delivered as a Digital Download of Audio (mp3) and Document/text files (pdf). The recorded lectures were delivered in a classroom setting by Paul Bergner, Medical Herbalist, Clinical Nutritionist, and founder of the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism (NAIMH).
 
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Overview
  • ​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 deprivation 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.
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Description
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.
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Materials Included
  • 18 audio recordings (14 hours and 35 minutes in all)
  • More than 250 slides to accompany the lectures
  • Supplementary notes and readings
  • 17 full-text journal articles
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Topics
  • Nutrition and Metabolism in History
  • Dietary Root of Modern Diseases
  • Sources of Nutritional Information
  • Nutrition Protocol and Supplementation
  • Protein and Trends in Protein Nutrition
  • Meat, Iron, and Carnitine
  • Fats
  • Magnesium and Calcium
  • Vitamin D
  • B Vitamins
  • Immunity and Inflammation
  • Insulin Resistance
  • Endocrine Imbalances
  • Dietary Patterns
  • Making changes
  • Nutrient Density
 
Important Information
This product is delivered as a Digital Download of audio and print files. After you purchase this course you will see a link to download the zip file and you will receive an emailed link that will last for 30 days. Once you download the zip file you will need to extract or unzip the files to access the audios and reading materials.
 
This course was delivered by Paul Bergner at the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism. Paul has practiced clinical nutrition and dietetics since 1973. He has studied nutritional anthropology since 1988. He taught nutrition at the undergraduate level at Naropa University over a period of seven years, and has taught seminars in clinical nutrition at the masters degree level. He has been training herbalists in clinical nutrition since 1996, supervising teaching clinics which combine nutrition and dietetics with herbal medicine.
 
These audios are a part of the curriculum for the ACORN School of Herbal Medicine’s Advanced Herbalism in the Vitalist Tradition program. We are making these audios accessible for self-study and independent learning. These independent study audio lectures are for personal use only (copyright laws apply). They do not come with faculty support, grading, or a certificate of completion.
 
Our online programs offer deeper instruction and guidance to apply the teachings within these audio recorded lectures, where you can earn a certificate of completion. If you would like faculty support within a community learning environment to enrich your educational experience, please see our webpage to learn more about certificate programs https://www.acornherbschool.com/online-programs
    $159.00Price
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