Weight Management
Workshop
Oct 19-20, 2018 - Dallas, TX
Learn About Weight Management Online

Description

Current statistics indicate that 78% of the U.S. population is overweight, while 38% is obese. This workshop will allow attendees to learn more about metabolism and weight management, while gaining a better understanding of the influencing factors that lead to fat gain. Instructors for this course will focus on successful weight loss implementation practices, adding practical experience and insight that will enable you to integrate weight loss into your practices. Specific diet start-up guidelines will additionally be discussed, as well as various body composition devices, glucometers, surveys, and other hands-on tools you can use to help your patients get healthy.

Learning Objectives

• Review approaches to metabolism management & programs engineered towards weight loss
• Discuss specific base diet start-up programs for a weight management practice
• Assess the role of peptides in weight loss
• Explain the use of tools like trackers and biometric assessments and how to discuss with patients
• Review the most effective labs to order for weight loss
• Discuss ways to identify hormone imbalances that contribute to weight gain
• Discuss how diet, genomics, microbiome and environmental factors influence the treatment of overweight and obese patients
• Define intermittent fasting and its historical origins and identify types of fasting diets with their physiological benefits and potential downsides

Faculty

William Seeds, MD, FMNM, ABAARM

Anthony Capasso, MD

Laura LaValle, RDN, LD

James LaValle, RPh, CCN, MT

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