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WELCOME TO IFHI 2011: CURRICULUM
Scheduled lectures for IFHI 2011 include:
“What Does Not Destroy Me, Makes Me Stronger.”
Peter D’Adamo, ND, MIFHI
So wrote the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in the Twilight of the Idols. New research in the emerging of hormesis indicates that transient, controlled challenges to homeostasis, via foods and environmental manipulation can induce rebounding cell repair that “overcompensates,” producing profound epigenetic changes to phenotype. Learn how to use diet and hormetins (natural products that influence hormesis) to control the downstream glycomic-hormesis interactions that regulate molecular chaperones, DNA repair mechanisms and the unfolded protein stress respons in endoplamic reticulum.
“Maps for Individualized Care: Vital Systems, Meta-Physiology and Therapeutic Strategies”
Mitch Stargrove, ND, LAc
A Three Worlds Meta-Physiology brings together ancient worldviews and emerging systems sciences to provide a model of physiology that encompasses both anatomical/structural and functional models and articulates an emphatically patient-centered vitalistic approach. Using body systems and meta-systems as the basis for perceiving individuals in their life context we can move beyond jargon to weave individualized and evolving multidisciplinary therapeutic strategies facilitating patient self-discovery and self-cultivation. A three by three Therapeutic Strategies model enables the practitioner to map the patient’s therapeutic trajectory to achieve effective synergies, coordinate collaborative care, and craft a path to activated health.
“Follow the Information”
Peter D’Adamo, ND, MIFHI
When researchers knocked out the gene for brain creatine kinase in mice they were prepared for severe phenotypic changes and probable death of the animals. Surprisingly, nothing happened. They looked absolutely normal, although a few had slightly smaller brains. Now, how could knocking out such an important enzyme produce virtually no change in phenotype? Working by cell network, they discovered that when a primordial system of singular importance is compromised, developmental influences legislate that other gene/enzyme systems simply compensate. It is coded into the system. Perhaps no better proof of this is the ‘small world’ network observation that any molecule in a cell is separated from any other molecule by an average of only three reactions. In the medicine of the future, information will be the new currency. Learn where to find it and how to use it.
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