Dr Dale Bredesen, Dr Allison Siebecker, Cate Shanahan, MD, and Louise Carder - Virtual Event - 21 September 2024
The IHCAN Conferences return for 2024 with a stellar line-up of internationally-recognised and respected speakers tackling the hottest topics in complementary and integrated health and nutrition.
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Expert speakers
CPD accredited
5 CPD hours (application pending)
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Although live education is back and more exciting than ever, we know how well-received online IHCAN education has been, so that’s why it’s here to stay!
We’ve got world-class speakers and, thanks to a bespoke bit of techno-wizardry, you’ll receive all the presentations to download and all the recordings post-event, so you never miss a thing.
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Full schedule
Louise Carder, BSc Nutr. Med., PgDip., mNNA, CNHC Reg., IFMCP, mNAP
12.00 – 12.30: Break
12.30 – 13.45: ‘DARK CALORIES: How Eight Ubiquitous Oils Destroy Our Health’
Cate Shanahan, MD
13.45 – 14.00: Break
14.00 – 15.45:‘Reversal of Cognitive Decline: Sustained Improvement for Over a Decade’
Dr Dale Bredesen
15.45 – 16.00: Break
16.00 – 17.15: ‘The latest in diagnosis and testing for SIBO’
Dr Allison Siebecker, ND, LAc
5 CPD hours (application pending)
‘Reversal of Cognitive Decline: Sustained Improvement for Over a Decade’
Dr Dale Bredesen
Dr. Bredesen graduated from Caltech and received his MD from Duke. He served as Resident and Chief Resident in Neurology at UCSF, then was postdoctoral fellow with Nobel laureate Prof. Stanley Prusiner. He was the Founding President of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.
The Bredesen Laboratory studied basic mechanisms underlying the neurodegenerative process, and the translation into effective therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease, leading to the publication of over 220 research papers. He established the Alzheimer’s Drug Development Network with Dr. Varghese John, leading to the identification of new classes of therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease. His work led to the discovery of subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease, followed by the first description of reversal of symptoms in patients with MCI and Alzheimer’s disease, with a precision medicine protocol, and a recent successful proof-of-concept trial. Dr. Bredesen is the author of two New York Times best sellers. He is currently a professor at UCLA.
‘The latest in diagnosis and testing for SIBO’
Dr Allison Siebecker, ND, LAc
Join Dr Siebecker to learn all the details of SIBO testing – from when and why to test, how to test and retest on a budget, what to stop before testing, different test options (and what she recommends), new tests on the market, and how to interpret results.
Topics include:
- Why we need to test for SIBO (treatment is based on test results + more)
- The prep diet and what to avoid before the test
- What about Ozempic / Wegovy / Monjaro?
- Substrates: glucose, lactulose and the new kid on the block – fructose
- Lengths of tests and why Dr. Siebecker thinks 3 hours is best
- The blood test for SIBO
- New options like FoodMarble
- When to retest
- How to interpret breath tests like a pro, with lots of examples (anyone can do it!)
About Dr Allison Siebecker, ND, LAc
Allison Siebecker, ND, MSOM, LAc, is the 2021 Lifetime Achievement recipient from the Gastro ANP. She is instructor of Advanced Gastroenterology, as well as former Medical Director and Co-Founder of the SIBO Center for Digestive Health, at the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM). She is IBS faculty for the GI Health Foundation and is the Co-Founder of the NUNM SIBO Symposium and GI Conference- continuing education for physicians. She has specialized in the treatment of SIBO since 2010, is an award winning author and the creator of the free educational website siboinfo.com.
‘DARK CALORIES: How Eight Ubiquitous Oils Destroy Our Health’
Cate Shanahan, MD
All leading experts agree that diet is the bedrock of optimal health and longevity. But we’ve yet to have an honest conversation about what we’re actually eating. One-third of our caloric intake comes from extensively refined vegetable oils, and most nutrition researchers don’t know why these oils need refining, let alone what they are doing to our bodies. Dr Cate uses a first principles approach to argue that vegetable oils, not carbohydrates, promote insulin resistance and represent the single most powerful dietary root cause of inflammation, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic diseases.
About Cate Shanahan, MD
Dr Cate Shanahan is a leading authority on nutrition and human metabolism. A board-certified Family Physician with over 20 years of clinical experience, and NY Times bestselling author of The FatBurn Fix, Deep Nutrition and Food Rules, her expertise is fixing the underlying problems that cause metabolic damage and inflammation, leading to autoimmunity, weight gain, diabetes, cancer and accelerated aging processes. Her passion is helping people feel their best.
After getting her BS in biology from Rutgers University, she trained in biochemistry and genetics at Cornell University’s graduate school before attending Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She practiced in Hawaii for ten years where she studied ethnobotany and her healthiest patient’s culinary habits. She applied her learning and experiences in all these scientific fields to write Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food. Together with Dr. Tim DiFrancesco and NBA legend Gary Vitti, she created the PRO Nutrition program for the LA Lakers and helped forge a partnership between Whole Foods Market and numerous NBA teams. In May of 2018 she begin Director of Metabolic Health for ABC Fine Wine and Spirits, a progressive, family-run company interested in saving money by the betterment of health.
‘Brain Inflammation: Going Beyond Mould in CIRS’
Louise Carder
Understanding Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS), a term coined over 25 years ago, provides a map to navigate the landscape of the effect of environmental factors, such as biotoxins, on human health. Whilst mould is synonymous with CIRS, actinomycetes bacteria and endotoxins are emerging as key features of human habitats that can contribute to CIRS. There are many wider environmental factors such as cyanobacteria and tick-borne illness that also associate with CIRS, however we will focus in this session on ‘the inflammatory response’, and, in particular, the inflammatory effects on the brain when considering environmental exposure. The central tenet of CIRS is that the ‘host’ response is the key to how the immune, metabolic and hormonal fall-out will affect someone and the full expression of this can be a very individual experience. We will consider symptoms, tests and explore current data to illuminate why we need to go beyond mould …and urinary mycotoxin testing to better understand brain inflammation in CIRS.
About Louise Carder, BSc Nutr. Med., PgDip., mNNA, CNHC Reg., IFMCP, mNAP
Louise is a Nutritional Medicine BSc graduate of the University of West London. She holds memberships with the Naturopathic Nutrition Association (NNA), the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), National Association of Phlebotomists (NAP) and the British Society of Ecological Medicine (BSEM).
Louise is a Complementary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) Registrant and is also an Associate of the Royal Society of Medicine. Louise previously held posts as Director and inaugural Head of Communications at The British Association of Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT), and was also Chair of the BANT Regulatory Committee. Louise has authored articles and chapters for various publications.
Louise runs a private practice in Lincoln where she specialises in Nutrition whilst utilising the Functional Medicine framework in which she has undertaken several years of post-graduate study including certification with the IFM. Louise was the first Shoemaker Certified practitioner in Europe and continues to be the only Certified Nutrition Professional. This study has led to Louise being a leading expert on inflammatory effects of biotoxin exposures; such as toxic compounds in water-damaged environments and their multi-system effects on human health. Out of this has come a passion project on histamine and its relationship with the immune system. Louise is Director of Colab Services Ltd, a facilitation service for advanced laboratory testing for the healthcare practitioner community. Once Europe-wide this service is now global.
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