Module XVI-C
MAY 14-16, 2020 - Orlando, FL
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Learning Objectives

• Recognize the hormonal changes that women and men manifest with aging, and discuss the functions of estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and other hormones in the body
• Review and clinically apply bioidentical hormone therapy for men and women for the risk reduction of cardiovascular disease
• Review the role of toxins and chelation in CVD
• Review and apply treatment principals to mitochondrial health in CVD
• Review the role of botanicals, exercise and nutritional therapies in the treatment of CVD
• Discuss the role of the microbiome in CVD, hypertension and dyslipidemia
• Review cerebrovascular disease and vascular dementia diagnosis, prevention and treatment
• Review and apply cardiovascular genomics in clinical medicine
• Discuss the role of nutrition and dietary patterns in a lifestyle approach for prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease
• Discuss how phytonutrients impact prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease
• Review how certain foods and bioactives assist in cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment
• Discuss the scientific rationale and mechanisms for clinical application of nutritional therapy in cardiovascular disease
• Discuss the controversy around T therapy and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk
• Describe the evidence for an association between low testosterone levels and CVD Risk
• Describe the ways in which treating hypogonadal men with Testosterone therapy may decrease CVD risk
• Understand that common environmental toxins have become major drivers of cardiovascular disease
• Understand how environmental metals and chemicals damage heart and arteries
• Understand the laboratory tests to assess body load of the worst cardiotoxins
• Be able to prescribe effective protocols to decrease body load of cardiotoxins