Practitioner Course

Graves’ Disease: Beyond the Conventional Paradigm

This is a thorough, evidence-based and genuinely practical session for any practitioner wanting to offer more to their Graves’ disease patients.
Format

Online Course
1 lessons

Availability

12 Months OR Subscriber Pass

Duration

1.5 hours total

Presenter

Tara Nelson

About this course

Graves’ disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism, yet conventional management has remained largely unchanged for over 70 years. Antithyroid drugs, radioactive iodine and thyroidectomy all have their place, but none address the underlying autoimmune mechanism driving the condition.

Tara Nelson is an experienced naturopath with a special interest in thyroid health, and has spent years refining a root cause approach to Graves’ disease that works alongside conventional treatment rather than competing with it. In this presentation Tara begins with the very first Graves’ patient she ever treated. This case taught her many valuable lessons that she shares in this practical presentation. She discusses in detail the genetic, viral, bacterial, toxic and stress-related triggers that converge to cause loss of immune tolerance to the TSH receptor.

She covers the pathology and antibody patterns that distinguish Graves’ disease from other thyroid conditions, the evidence behind nutrient and herbal interventions, and importantly, how to support patients safely alongside antithyroid medication. Tara closes with a detailed case study tracking a patient’s TSI and TPO antibodies over 16 months of integrative care, through to clearance for pregnancy.

Tara has a high level of success with these patients and is very willing to share her clinical insights. This is a thorough, evidence-based and genuinely practical session for any practitioner wanting to offer more to their Graves’ disease patients.
What you receive:
  • A personalised certificate of completion including continuing education hours
  • Clear protocol explanations from some of the world's top practitioners
  • Clinical pearls for improved practice results
  • Access to your audio and video recordings via the App Store
  • A downloadable PDF of the presenter’s slides
  • Links to all referenced research papers and useful clinical handouts
  • Access to the community hub where you can get answers to your questions

From this course you will learn

  • How to identify the clinical patterns and antibody markers that distinguish Graves’ disease from other forms of thyroid dysfunction
  • The genetic, viral, bacterial, toxic and stress-related triggers that drive loss of immune tolerance to the TSH receptor
  • How TRAb and TSI levels guide treatment decisions and predict remission versus relapse
  • How to support patients safely alongside carbimazole or propylthiouracil, without competing with conventional treatment
  • The evidence for selenium, vitamin D, magnesium, L-carnitine and other key nutrients in Graves’ disease
  • Which herbal medicines have evidence for calming thyroid overactivity and supporting the autoimmune picture
  • How gut health and the microbiome influence Graves’ disease, and how to apply the 5R protocol in practice
  • Diet and lifestyle strategies, including iodine dosing considerations specific to Graves’ disease

What's in this course

Your Presenter

Tara Nelson

Tara works with patients face to face and online globally, drawing from her hundreds of thyroid patients and also her own and one of her 3 children’s diagnosis of Hashimoto’s.

Tara's passion as a Naturopath is about educating people about how to eat well and live well, for them to take control of their own health by making the changes of eating better and eliminating lifestyle practices that are not supporting this process. She employs mindfulness, dietary and lifestyle modifications to bring sound results in her clinic, employing both traditional and evidence based research in her treatment protocols. 

Tara regularly mentors’ other health practitioners with their complex thyroid cases , runs 2 thyroid practitioner training programs to educate and support practitioners in all areas of thyroid health, and offers a membership mentoring platform and group for ongoing practitioner support. She is also a regular guest speaker on health and wellbeing based podcasts, and professional organisations and companies.
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