Course Description:

With the advent of new research and management options surrounding the viral pandemic, many practitioners are deciding how to navigate the best direction to take with their patients. As the pandemic continues, patients need additional help from clinicians to modify their lifestyle and dietary risk factors and improve their immune defenses. They need support in getting chronic inflammation and autoimmune conditions under control, moving toward a healthier weight (or avoiding additional weight gain), improving their diet, and improving their fitness through increased physical activity. These long-term goals are too late for the current pandemic's first wave, but later waves and new pandemics threaten. Patients who have experienced infection with a novel virus can develop long-lasting inflammation, leading to autoimmune disease and long-hauler syndrome. By helping your patients understand how to improve their immunity and reduce their risk, you give them the tools to enhance their ongoing health. Dr. Silverman will discuss how to navigate through multiple phases of this pandemic and share leading-edge protocols for improving patient outcomes. This presentation will cover inflammatory markers, protocols for calming systemic inflammation, optimizing the gut microbiome and supporting mucosal immunity. 

Learning Objectives:

• The influence of healthy microbiota on susceptibility to viral infections
• Functional medicine protocols for immunity
• COVID-19 infection and its association with the lung-gut-brain axis and microbiome dysbiosis
• Explain the importance of modifying personal lifestyle and dietary risk factors to reduce inflammation and improve immunity
  • Protocols for supporting mucosal immunity
  • Protocols for calming systemic inflammation
  • Protocols for improving natural killer activity
• Recognize the possible rise in autoimmunity and increased inflammatory status following recovery from COVID-19 infection 

This session is approved for  1.5 Category A General credits with the College of Naturopaths of Ontario (CONO).  After completing the material, you will automatically receive your CE certificate.