Nutrition
In an effort to seek out ways to address disease with proper nutrition, FAIM attends relevant conferences and does extensive site visits to clinics which empasize this healing initiative.
Clinics, Site Visits and Protocols
Dr. Augusto Pazan, Ambato, Ecuador
Dr. Pazan is the director of the Bio Center Reckeweg. It is a small multiple physician clinic of natural and non-toxic therapies, is situated in the city of Ambato, Ecuador. Dr Pazan incorporates nutrition into his healing protocols.
Viva Modern Mayr Medicine, Maria Worth, Austria
"Modern Mayr Medicine," therapy at the clinic is based on the F. X. Mayr, M.D. (1875-1965) therapy for a healthy person. Dr. Mayr's work was about the link between digestion, intestinal health and overall health. According to Dr. Mayr, "The intestines are to man what the roots are to the plant. Only when these roots are kept in an optimal condition of nourishment and cleanliness, can the plant (man) itself thrive and remain healthy."
Paracelsus Clinic, Lustmuhle, Switzerland
The clinic proposes a medical paradigm based on non-toxic biological medicine that, not only identifies, but also eliminates the root causes of acute and chronic diseases.
Alfred Vogel Museum and Organic Show Garden, Tuefen, Switzerland
Dr. Vogel was a renowned Swiss nutritionist, herbalist and naturopath. In the pursuit of helping people, he passionately practiced phytotherapy until he passed away in 1996 at the age of 94.
Dr. Raymond Hilu, Malaga, Spain
Dr. Hilu's clinic states that the trauma of fighting cancer can be very discouraging and one needs to treat the person as a whole as "the body is not separate from the mind and the heart."
Pablo Opazo, Santiago, Chile
Due to life circumstances, non-medical personnel many times accumulate a considerable amount of specific health related knowledge. This is the case with Chilean agronomist Pablo Opazo who has lived more than a decade of extremely challenging tribulations related to the health of his children. Of particular concern to Pablo Opazo is the use of methylphenidate (well known by its brand name Ritalin) to treat children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD. Opazo uses fatty acids to treat the brain.
Conferences
The GAPS Diet: Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride
Ever wondered how those nervous thoughts send the butterflies swooping through your stomach? Natasha Campbell-McBride explains how your brain and digestive track are linked together in her book Gut and Psychology Syndrome: Natural Treatment Of Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Depression And Schizophrenia. This article presents a summary of her recent presentation for the Weston A. Price Foundation conference. Learn about some simple things you can do to improve your own brain/gut health.
Live with Dr. Gabriel Cousens
While at the Integrative Medicine Symposium in Miami, FL in April 2010, Dr. Cousens hosted a special event that gave an experience of his teachings and an opportunity to ask him questions. Marcela Benson, a Tree of Life food-preparation teacher, prepares a delicious organic, vegan, live-food and low glycemic banquet using Dr. Gabriel Cousens' nutritional methods.
Fourfold Path to Healing, Raliegh, North Carolina
At a time in history when strongly held nutritional beliefs are beginning to be questioned, information shared at the Fourfold Path to Healing Conference shed new light on healthy living, eating and movement.
Back to School for Doctors, Denver, Colorado
Back to School for Doctors is built upon the nutritional philosophy of Dr. Royal Lee who provided insight into improving the digestion and absorption of nutrition in the human GI tract that was ahead of his time.
Wise Traditions Conference, San Francisco, California
The Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit tax-exempt charity founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Weston A. Price, D.D.S, provided the Wise Traditions conference.
Health and Nutrition Conference, Chicago,Illinois
Nutrition and Health: State of the Science and Clinical Applications was the premier nutrition conference for health professionals in the United States. It was co-presented by Dr. Andrew Weil and the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. The conference assembled internationally-recognized researchers, clinicians, educators, and chefs, all of whose work focuses on the interface between nutrition and healthful living.
Guest Writers
General Diet Recommendations for Optimal Health
Dr. Isaac Eliaz has been practicing integrative medicine with a focus on cancer and chronic illness for 25 years. Today, Dr. Eliaz is the medical director of Amitabha Medical Clinic and Healing Center in Sebastopol, CA, where integrative health practitioners work with patients to treat cancer and other chronic illness. Designing individualized, synergistic healing protocols that draw from multiple medical systems including Western allopathic, Traditional Chinese, and a wide range of holistic therapies, allows for the treatment of the whole person: body, mind, emotions, and spirit, rather than just addressing the symptoms of the disease. Nutrition plays an important role in his therapies.
The Bioecology of Cancer – Bio-Therapeutic Support
The Value of Nutritional Support and Cellular Detoxification
Dr. Jack O. Taylor, MD, has developed a program for nutritional support to prevent disease and address and reverse degeneratie diseases including cancer. An individualized Nutritional Assessment and Chemical Analysis is performed for each patient to determine an appropriate program.
Resources
The Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
The Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation is a public, nonprofit educational organization, providing information about whole foods and proper preparation techniques, soil improvement, natural farming and pure water, preventing disease and birth defects, avoiding personality disturbances and delinquency, enhancing the environment, and enabling all people to achieve long life and excellent health.
Trade Shows
Natural Food Fair, Boston, MA
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