Whole Health Foundation Courses

Inflammation and Disease
The body’s response to chronic chemical stress is inflammation. This inflammatory response, over time, results in various chronic and life-threatening pathologies and disease states. This course examines the causes of inflammation, its prevalence in disease states, and how to prevent or reverse this condition.

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Mindful Listening
Critical to the healthcare professional is the ability to mindfully dialogue with their clients. Mindful listening and mindful speech are skills that we can develop through awareness and practice. This important two-part course explores how we can improve our communication in all our relationships.

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Physics & Philosophy Part I & II
The study of Physics and Philosophy allows us to develop our own personal philosophy and better understand the viewpoints of others. The works of Einstein, Newton, Buddha, Maslow, as well as the Torah, Koran, and other classic teachings, demonstrate how our beliefs, values, and worldview influence our choices and the resulting outcomes. This knowledge offers greater insight into the views and values of others.

Brain Function and Nutrition
Understanding brain function is one of the most urgent issues facing health care professionals today to enable them to assist their patients with the cascade of neurological brain disorders being experienced in the U.S. These disorders include ADD, ADHA, autism, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, senility, Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis and a host of others. This course provides the cutting-edge nutrition science being used to address these conditions.

Digestive Function and Nutrition
To possess an authentic understanding of human nutrition, the role of digestion, absorption, and assimilation, and how they relate to health and disease state, is critical. This course explores, from an integrative whole picture perspective the structure and function of the digestive system and how it affects human nutrition.

Metabolic Syndrome
Metabolic Syndrome is a complex of hormonal and metabolic responses that lead to obesity, high blood pressure, increased risk for heart disease, type II diabetes, and other syndromes. This course examines the mechanisms of metabolic syndrome and offers solutions for reversing and preventing this epidemic pathology.

Adrenal Function and Stress
The ability to adapt to change in the external and internal environments is the hallmark of human survival. This course presents the how and why of adaptation and provides an in-depth understanding of adrenal function, its relationship to stress and immune function as well as the nutritional research from Hans Selye, M.D., PhD, which explains the body’s increased nutritional needs when under stress.

Psychology of Stress
This course identifies the nature of stress, the body’s response to stress in both acute and chronic stages, and what specific physiological changes take place as a result of stress adaptation. This information can facilitate an individual’s understanding of how to avoid chronic stress and maintain wellness. Discussion topics include: the mind-immune link, principles of psychological conditioning, and stress reduction techniques.

Obesity: Hidden Factors
This presentation looks beyond the problems of overeating and the lack of exercise as causes of obesity and examines the hidden causes contributing to the escalating rates of obesity seen today in the U.S. and around the globe. Nutritional as well as environmental factors are discussed. Statistics, as well as information on how to reverse this disturbing trend, are presented.

Nutrition: Food Biochemistry
This foundation course in food biochemistry, cell function, and the role of vitamins and minerals is the basis of understanding nutrition science. This course provides a foundation for understanding “the big picture” of human nutrition. Discusses: chlorophyll, photosynthesis; fertile soil; vitamin function, mineral function, the function and importance of fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. Designed to provide the learner with an authentic understanding of how human nutrition works on a cellular level.

The Immune System
This course describes the complexity of the immune system through a whole health perspective. This course also explores the role of vitamins, minerals, and herbs in relation to the immune system; the action of the thymus gland and spleen, as well as the role of exercise and diet in a healthy immune system. A clear, integrated understanding of immune function is valuable to enhancing health coaching outcomes.

Cultural Diversity
This course examines important areas of cultural differences, especially how they relate to and affect the delivery of health care for both the patient and the practitioners. Issues of how time is perceived, how grief is expressed, cultural nutrition, how religion affects culture, and much more is explored. This course is presented by two health care professionals, a physician and a health educator, who are both from “third world” cultures.

Muscles and Bones
The goal of this course is to provide the learner with an integrated understanding of the physiology and function of muscles and bones. This understanding will enhance your ability to educate and coach clients with musculoskeletal conditions. The course offers a unique opportunity to explore beyond the anatomy of the skeletal system and understand the inter-relationships of the musculoskeletal system with all body systems. The effects of the environment on bones and muscles will also be discussed.

Introduction to Exercise Physiology I, II, and III
Prepared with an understanding of exercise physiology, a chronically ill patient can enhance their quality of life. How the body reacts to acute as well as chronic stress is correlated with activities and corresponding exercises. The course presents principles of exercise physiology and application in patient recovery, along with the ways fitness-induced changes allow for improved function of all body systems.

Brain Function and Behavior
This course provides an integrated overview of mind/body physiology and its influence on human behavior. It discusses brain function and the biochemistry of thoughts and emotions, as well as the body’s chemicals and structures, which create unique behaviors. Theories and research into the neuro-behavioral sciences will also be discussed. This information will enhance health coaching tools and knowledge.

Nutrition Research on Chronic Disease
This presentation provides current research studies from around the world that demonstrate important information and data on the three major causes of death in the U.S. and around the world. Heart disease, cancer, and type II diabetes data and research provide insights and clues into the prevention and nutritional treatment of these life-threatening conditions.

Cardiac Whole Health
This class provides tools to enhance health, well-being, and quality of life for those experiencing cardiac conditions. The impact of nutrition, emotions, the environment, and spirituality on cardiac function and/or disease will be examined. The genesis of arteriosclerosis and the role of psychological states on cardiac function will be highlighted. This knowledge will allow greater insight into the development of wellness strategies for individuals with heart disease.

Living with Illness
For the individual experiencing illness, it is more than a diagnosis. Their illness is a life-altering event that can be used for transforming their way of thinking, feeling, and being. This course explores the experience of living with a chronic or life-threatening illness and the opportunities it can provide for personal and spiritual growth.

Whole Person Nutrition Parts I & II
Although there is a basic nutritional requirement for all human beings, human nutrition practices and approaches vary greatly according to culture, geography, genetics, gender, religion, environment, age and many other factors which need to be considered when establishing a realistic perspective on nutrition. This course presents approaches, practices and research from a more global viewpoint. It also presents the nutritional research from Hans Selye, M.D., PhD, the “father of stress management,” which explains increased nutritional needs for the body under stress.

Functional Medicine
Functional medicine is a new paradigm for the practice of medicine. Grounded in a cause-and-effect model of problem-solving solving health care, functional medicine explores health and wellness from a whole person, whole health perspective. The practice of functional medicine affirms the importance of approaching health care from a Whole Health Education model, which educates the individual on the cause and effect of their disease state and what they can do to regain or maintain their health and wellness.