July Update 2025 - All About the Gut + Case Studies

A focus on gut health and complex case studies in this month of July. Keep your eyes open for Brendan's LIVE mentoring sessions coming up for pass-holders only.

Bloating - A Guide to Creating An Effective Treatment Plan

Bloating is a very common digestive complaint impacting the quality of life of many of the people we see. Many of your patients must be presenting with this symptom because nearly one out of every five people are experiencing bloating at least once a week. They have a feeling of abdominal fullness, tightness, or swelling and often there is visible distention and pain. There are several causes and identifying these is to critical achieving successful resolution.

Dr. Whitney Baxter is a naturopathic doctor specialising in gut health. In this presentation she provides in-depth exploration of the multiple recognised mechanisms behind bloating. Whitney shares the differential diagnoses that need to be considered, and gives us her evidence-based management strategies that she has used on a large number of patients.

Whitney will guide you through the latest research, clinical insights, and practical tools to help you better understand, diagnose, and treat bloating in your patients. She also shows you why it is important to distinguish between functional and organic causes, and how interpret the relevant diagnostic tests for bloating. These enable you to develop personalised treatment plans that address the physiological and the gut-brain interaction factors. Read more...

Polyphenols and Gut Health: Therapeutic Applications

Polyphenols are a diverse group of plant compounds with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and microbiome-modulating effects. Their clinical use is emerging as a cornerstone in the management of gut and systemic inflammation, metabolic and cardiovascular conditions, and disorders of gut-brain interaction.

In this presentation, Dr Brad Leech, a leading clinical nutritionist and researcher, explores the latest evidence on how polyphenols influence gastrointestinal health, the gut microbiome, and patient outcomes.

Dr Leech will guide you through the mechanisms of action, clinical applications, and best practices for prescribing dietary and supplemental polyphenols. You will learn how to integrate gut microbiome and gastrointestinal testing to personalise polyphenol interventions, optimise patient care, and monitor therapeutic outcomes. Read more...

Patients are becoming more and more complex, with more and more health concerns than ever before.  To compound the issue, many patients who end up seeing a naturopathic/functional/integrative medicine practitioner are the outliers, the non-responders, the difficult to treat, and the refractory cases.  Many are just so complicated that everyone has given up on them.

Dr Todd Born has compiled a long list of case studies from his busy practice. These all show interesting and valuable clinical pearls that you can use with your patients. Todd's approach is to simplify their case, with strategic and systematic evaluation and treatment strategies and interventions, thus mitigating the cumbersome patient presentation and improving health outcomes. 

Twenty case studies of real patients with complex health concerns are presented. You will see their problem lists, how they were assessed, diagnosed, along with Todd’s treatment strategy and the patients’ outcomes. Many of these conditions are what naturopathic/functional/integrative medicine providers see every day and a few that you may rarely see. Todd also reviews some common cases that “conventional” medicine doesn’t have many solutions or have much to offer. The patients’ ages range from a few days old to mid-80’s. 

With patient care being a very complex process with many components, case studies like these are often the best way to learn effective treatment strategies and get some terrific clinical gems. Read more...

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