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BioIndividual Nutrition Mini-Course and Phenols

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My friend and colleague, Julie Matthews, BS, NC, Author of Nourishing Hope for Autism will be hosting the BioIndividual Nutrition Mini-Course as an online webinar for practitioners who make diet and nutrition recommendations. Customizing diets based on a person’s unique biochemistry and health needs is essential to healing chronic disorders.

Learn what it means to practice BioIndividual Nutrition, and how your clinical results can improve by using and customizing therapeutic diets.

The Mini-Course touches on each module of her advanced BioIndividual Nutrition Training program; providing immediately actionable clinical insights, pitfalls to avoid, and proven tips to help you increase your effectiveness with specialized diets.

By the end of this online mini-course, you’ll have a good understanding of how practicing BioIndividual nutrition can help you become more confident, streamline your practice and improve compliance! Whether or not you enroll in the full program semester… You will discover:

  • 14 Clinical Tips you can use in your practice today
  • The nutrition science behind therapeutic diets including low phenol, low oxalate, low amine, low glutamate and low FODMAPs
  • Symptom clues on how to assess your client’s bioindividual nutrition needs
  • 5 most common mistakes nutrition practitioners make
  • Breakthrough case studies

Julie shares this:

This BioIndividual Nutrition Mini-Course will NOT be a general overview. Come prepared to learn!

This sampling of valuable information from the section on phenols and sulfation gives you an inkling on the level of detail Julie goes into when she teaches this topic:

This isn’t an area I’ve covered yet on my blog but as you can see there is much relevance when it comes to depression, irritability, agitation and anxiety, autism, ADHD and insomnia and more.

If you have questions Julie will be setting aside some time for Q&A right after the mini-course.

You can register for the online BioIndividual Nutrition Mini-Course here

Oxalates and leaky gut for Anxiety: Webinar replay

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Just a quick reminder in case you missed this over the New year weekend. You can still listen to the webinar replay from last week: Live Case studies, Q & A, and Special Diet Strategies for Anxiety – with myself and Julie Matthews

Tune in to hear live case studies on how we use special therapeutic diets and bioindividual nutrition strategies with complex clients who have anxiety, other mood issues and various related health problems.

I was my own case study and shared my own oxalate issue in detail (for the very first time) so you can learn in detail about this special diet and how these healthy foods that are high in oxalates caused me excruciating foot pain.

Here is the summary:

  • In 2013 I was on my feet speaking often 3 full days in a row at conferences
  • Exhibiting at conferences like American Public Health
  • Terrible foot pain (+ sharp hip pain in that same year)
    • burning pain (like hot coals) and sharp (like shards of glass)
    • standing on them and while lying in bed
    • one event: had to crawl back to bed from the bathroom
  • My travel food was all high oxalate foods:
    • Smoothies with berries (I took a blender when I travelled)
    • Nuts to snack on
    • Kale chips

Here is are the high oxalate foods:

And this is how I figured out the issue and what I did about it (with a few dietary changes):

  • Heard Julie present at WAPF conference
  • Light bulb: pain and oxalates!
  • Picked Julie’s brain about my feet pain and oxalates
  • Consult with Julie – I went salicylate free and oxalate free
  • It was the oxalates – I knew in 2 weeks!
  • Pyroluria connection – I have pyroluria and low vitamin B6 is a factor with oxalates
  • My oxalate results on OAT – nothing showed up
  • If I am exposed by mistake
    • I feel irritable
    • A sense of growing pain in my feet (in about 30 minutes)
  • I always have calcium citrate on hand – sorts me out in a few minutes
  • Concerns about everyone consuming green smoothies and baking with nut flours (oxalates and copper issues)
  • Decided to do the Bioindividual Nutrition Program to really learn about these special therapeutic diets
  • Julie is THE person to teach this!

During the webinar Julie shared her expertise on low oxalate diets and the lab testing, and shared a new powerful case study from her practice – Luka’s story is just heartwarming!

Julie also discusses the science behind these cutting edge therapeutic diet approaches which also include low phenol, low amine, low glutamate and low FODMAPs – and how so much of this can be applied to anxiety, depression and other chronic health conditions.

Here is a slide that covers leaky gut or intestinal permeability and anxiety – and special diets to consider:

The Q&A was excellent (thanks to all of you who attended live and asked questions).

You can register here for access to the replay (this is geared towards practitioners is open for all to listen in and learn + would be great to share with your practitioner if you’re not one)

Julie shared more about the BioIndividual Nutrition Training winter enrollment for practitioners. If you are a practitioner and already know you want to do the BioIndividual Nutrition Training training here is that link to check it out and register.

I highly recommend the training! As I mentioned, it helped me personally and now I use this information with the anxious women I work with and their families. I have also found the connection and sharing amongst the community of practitioners to be an invaluable aspect of joining the program.

 

PS. Even if you’re not a practitioner, many non-practitioners choose to listen in to these types of calls in order to learn. Feel free to do the same or to pass on to your practitioner so they can learn and then further help you. I also like to share this type of call with my entire community because I know many of you are aspiring health coaches, nutritionists and nutritional psychologists.

PPS. Julie also offers a version of this training to mom’s who want to learn for themselves and their families. Feel free to reach out to them at info [at] bioindividualnutrition.com if you’re interested.

Customizing special diets with Julie Matthews and Dr. Kurt Woeller

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We can all agree how the food we eat has such an impact on how we feel and that “food is medicine.”

We know we all have specific needs, unique biochemistry and very different genes so that is there NO “one-size-fits-all diet. We need to eat according to our own unique biochemistry and this is where BioIndividual Nutrition comes in to the picture.

Customizing your diet and nutrition strategy is essential to an integrative approach.

Julie has spent the past 14 years researching and applying specialized diets and is now teaching this BioIndividual Nutrition approach to advanced clinicians.

I know Julie personally, have read her book, have heard her present at many conferences (and even supported her at a few!) and have done her training. I can assure you that her knowledge in this area takes things to the next level! She is an expert on special diets, teaching about oxalates, salicylates, amines, glutamates, FODMAPs, gluten-free, GFCF (gluten-free-casein-free), GAPS and much more!  

I’m sure you remember her from our prior interviews. Here are a few reminders:

She shared this during season 1 of the Anxiety Summit: BioIndividual Nutrition and Special Diets

My book is called Nourishing Hope for Autism, but a lot of people that have other conditions get my book, particularly because I call kids with autism the canaries in the coalmine. They’re the ones that are telling us that our world is too toxic, there’s too many stressors, it’s too deficient in nutrients, and we need to change our ways by adding more nutrition, more absorbable forms of supplements, getting supplements in general, eating good foods that are nutrient dense. These principles are principles that apply, in my experience, to almost all healing. So we learn a lot from the kids with autism on how it might apply to anxiety and other conditions.

And this during season 2 of the Anxiety Summit: Fermented foods and probiotics for anxiety and depression

There was a study done by a researcher named Tillisch and published in 2013 in Gastroenterology. We know a lot about how the brain sends signals to the gut, but she explained that in the study they learned that the gut also sends signals to the brain. The researchers found that with yogurt, they found positive effects on the brain, including sensory processing and those areas associated with emotion and mood.

And earlier this year I interviewed Julie on: Customizing a Low FODMAPS Diet for a Client with Anxiety and/or Depression and we covered

  • The scientific rationale for recommending a Low FODMAPS (an acronym, deriving from “Fermentable, Oligo-, Di-, Mono-saccharides And Polyols) Diet for someone with anxiety/depression
  • Defining oligosaccharides (fructans and galacto-oligosaccharides); disaccharides (lactose); monosaccharides (fructose) and polyols (sugar alcohols and more)
  • What are high free fructose foods and the fructose malabsorption/anxiety and depression connection

As you can see, Julie is up-to-date on the latest research and is very hands-on and super detailed when it comes to teaching and implementing special diets.

In this FREE BioIndividual Nutrition webinar on August 10, Julie Matthews and Dr. Kurt Woeller are teaming up to share what every integrative practitioner or nutrition professional would love to know and should know about customizing special diets to individual needs:

  • How personalizing food and nutrition strategies help improve patient/client outcomes
  • Which foods may negatively affect mood, learning, and behavior (Kurt and Julie will share wisdom from their experiences with autism)
  • The most advantageous special diets for healing: including: GFCF, SCD, GAPS Diet, Paleo diet, low phenol diets, low oxalate, and low FODMAPs
  • How to AVOID the 3 most common mistakes when making dietary recommendations
  • How to join the upcoming September “Study Group” at the BioIndividual Nutriton Institute, with Julie Matthews and Dr. Kurt Woeller

If you’re an integrative practitioner or nutrition professional and if you’re making diet and nutrition recommendations to your patients or clients, I highly recommend this upcoming webinar on customizing special diets.

You can register here for this educational webinar on August 10th at 1pm PST:
https://az184.isrefer.com/go/imweb/TrudyScott

If you can’t make it live, register anyway to get a copy of the recording.

Have you benefited from being on a special diet? Do you currently use special diets with your clients/patients and see symptom reduction/resolution? Please do share in the comments.