Identify and treat the underlying mechanisms of chronic GI dysfunction
Ready to Transform Your Gastrointestinal Clinical Outcomes?
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How H. pylori’s destructive impact extends far beyond the stomach.
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Why silent gut dysfunction might be the hidden cause behind your patient’s fatigue, depression, and chronic pain.
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How leaky gut can trigger systemic inflammation without a single digestive symptom.
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Why undiagnosed gallbladder issues could be sabotaging your GI protocols.
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Why treating gut disorders without addressing neurological function often leads to treatment failure.
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CLASS OVERVIEW
As a Practitioner, Do You Ever Feel Like You’re Hitting A Brick Wall With Your Patients?
Gastrointestinal complaints are among the most challenging conditions you face in clinical practice. Despite following standard functional medicine protocols, many patients show minimal improvement.
The reason? Relying on nutritional-supplement approaches often oversimplifies complex GI disorders, leading to generic treatment plans that fail to address the unique mechanisms driving each patient's condition.
Dr. Datis Kharrazian's comprehensive course changes this paradigm. Drawing from over two decades of clinical experience and groundbreaking research, Dr. Kharrazian has developed a systemic approach that helps practitioners identify the essential clinical variables that need to be identified and addressed when working with various GI dysfunctions.
Why Traditional Approaches to Gut Treatment Fall Short
Gastrointestinal complaints are among the most challenging conditions clinicians face. Despite following standard protocols, many patients show minimal improvement.
This is because most practitioners are unaware of crucial mechanisms like:
- How various steps in digestion have powerful downstream impacts of the microbiome.
- Which physiological factors, unrelated to diet, have profound impacts on microbiome diversity and function.
- Why all cases of intestinal permeability are not the same; i.e., how transcellular permeability is different from paracellular permeability.
- How endotoxemia from intestinal permeability has various degrees of impact on clinical outcomes.
- How disruption from the brain due to neurodegeneration or traumatic brain injury can lead to dysautonomia and promote chronic gastrointestinal dysfunction.
- How intestinal autoimmunity is different than general gut inflammation. Why certain gut conditions are chronic and how to educate patients to avoid patient and practitioner burn out.
These factors—and many more—can determine treatment success and failure.
Did You Know...
Did You Know...
Most patients with leaky gut will not respond to leaky gut supplements.
Probiotics only have an effect as long as you’re taking them, if at all. It is more effective to help patients change their gut microbiome.
Gut bacteria influence both health and disease through the production of postbiotics.
Ignoring the brain-gut axis and the vagus nerve is a major reason many patients don’t get better.
A primary factor in a person’s health is the diversity of their gut microbiome
One of the worst things a practitioner can do to a chronically ill patient is to overly restrict their diet.
Introducing....A Revolutionary Approach to GI Health
Dr. Kharrazian’s groundbreaking course is based on over 20 years experience working with patients throughout the U.S. and Europe, breakthrough scientific research, and his own time-tested clinical strategies.
He will teach you a step-by-step clinical approach to identify the underlying mechanisms that lead to conditions such as leaky gut or irritable bowel syndrome.
It’s crucial for you to effectively manage chronic GI conditions because they are linked to:
He will teach you a step-by-step clinical approach to identify the underlying mechanisms that lead to conditions such as leaky gut or irritable bowel syndrome.
It’s crucial for you to effectively manage chronic GI conditions because they are linked to:
- Depression
- Fatigue
- Autoimmunity
- Chronic pain
- Brain function
- Hormonal issues, and more.
By helping your patients manage their gut issues, you help them manage so much more.
COURSE FEATURES
Learn the most important clinical principles necessary to untangle chronic gastrointestinal disorders
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Expanded treatment potential
Why limiting your clinical practice to numerous protocols is a failing model for complex gastrointestinal disorders.
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Fundamental principles
How to develop clinical strategies by understanding the fundamental principles of gastroenterology physiology.
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The chronic health connection
Review the recent scientific publications on how gastrointestinal disorders can lead to depression, anxiety, fatigue, chronic pain, autoimmunity, and other chronic conditions.
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The gut-brain/brain-gut axis
Understand the role of not only the gut-to-brain axis but also the role of the brain-to-gut axis and how it is important clinically.
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The north-to-south approach
Understand the clinical concept of treating gastrointestinal dysfunction from a “north-to-south” approach.
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Personalized protocols
Learn how develop personalized GI protocols bases on individual mechanisms instead of one-size fits-all approaches.
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Datis Kharrazian, PhD, DHSc, DC, MS, MMSc, FACN
Datis Kharrazian, PhD, DHSc, DC, MS, MMSc, FACN, is a Harvard Medical School-trained researcher, academic professor, and functional medicine practitioner. He brings unparalleled expertise to this topic as both a clinician and as a researcher.
Dr. Kharrazian has conducted numerous studies and published scientific papers on intestinal permeability, the gut-brain axis, and gastrointestinal autoimmunity. As a clinician he has consulted with complex patients from all over the world for the past 25 years where he has constantly refined his clinical approach to gastrointestinal disorders that he is ecstatic to share with you in this course.
Dr. Kharrazian is a currently an associate clinical professor at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, an active member of the American Association of Immunologists, and a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition.
COURSE CONTENT
Course Session Information
Course Session Information
This course is designed for licensed healthcare practitioners ready to take their clinical practice to the next level by mastering complex GI cases. The comprehensive curriculum includes 12 hours of in-depth video training, divided into carefully structured modules that build your expertise step by step.
SESSION 1
A Comprehensive Review of How the Gastrointestinal System Works and How it Impacts Human Health
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Review how the gastrointestinal system interacts with the immune system, the endocrine system, and brain to promote chronic illness.
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Why principles of clinical hierarchy are necessary to resolve unresponsive gut disorders.
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Discover key concepts such as oral tolerance, the digestive enzyme cascade, enteric nervous system modulation of the microbiome, and microbiome metabolic functions to provide critical context need to understand complex clinical presentations.
SESSION 2
The Clinical Mechanisms of Digestive Dysfunction
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How to identify underlying causes of impaired digestive enzyme output and modulate digestion.
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Understand the powerful impact of insufficient gallbladder function on the microbiome and general health.
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Step-by-step clinical approaches to identify digestive dysfunction and develop personalized clinical approaches.
SESSION 3
The Clinical Role of Intestinal Permeability and Endotoxemia
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How to identify four patterns of leaky gut and what they mean clinically.
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Why supplementation for leaky gut does not work by itself and how you must identify the clinical factors that disrupt intestinal tight junctions.
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How to use lab tests to identify and monitor clinical outcomes for intestinal permeability.
SESSION 4
The Microbiome and Its Specific Applications to Clinical Practice
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How to clinically identify loss of immune tolerance and strategies to modulate the microbiome to restore it.
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Review the key metabolic and immunological functions of the microbiome.
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Learn which lifestyle, dietary, and metabolic factor impact microbiome function.
SESSION 5
Review of Foundation Sessions 1-4
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Physiological roles of the gastrointestinal tract
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The clinical mechanisms of digestive dysfunction
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Leaky gut and endotoxemia
SESSION 6
Questions and Answers
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Guidance on applying course concepts to your challenging clinical cases
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Common obstacles when introducing these frameworks into your practice
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Clinical pearls and insights
SESSION 7
Clinical Mechanisms for Unresponsive and Chronic Gastrointestinal Disorders
How to Develop Treatment Programs for Gastrointestinal Dysfunction
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Learn which types of gastrointestinal conditions lead unresponsive and chronic clinical expression.
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Learn how to manage patient expectations and improve quality of life with incurable gastrointestinal conditions.
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Learn strategies to identify overlooked clinical variables when gastrointestinal conditions are unresponsive to clinical interventions.
SESSION 8
How to Clinically Evaluate Gastrointestinal Disorders Step-by-Step
Gastrointestinal Case Studies
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Learn a step-by-step approach to evaluate gastrointestinal disorder that include essential questions to ask during the medical history, physical examination findings, and how to interpret gastrointestinal lab tests.
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Learn how to use established clinical questionnaires that are provided in the course so that can immediately identify variables involved with gastrointestinal dysfunction.
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How to examine a patient and evaluate laboratory test for gastrointestinal disorders.
What's Included in the Gastrointestinal Clinical Strategies and Treatment Applications Course
What's Included in the Gastrointestinal Clinical Strategies and Treatment Applications Course
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12 hours of comprehensive video training
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Downloadable clinical assessment tools
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Detailed course materials
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Case study analysis
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Access to latest research findings and clinical applications
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Certificate of Completion upon passing the examination
What people are saying...
What people are saying...
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Dr. Kharrazian is one of the greatest minds in the functional medicine space. He’s a trailblazer and an innovator. His courses are gold and his direction is wise. If you’re in healthcare and are ready to be on the right side of history, study with this man.
Pedram Shojai, OMD
Author, New York Times Bestselling book, The Urban Monk
Founder of Well.org
Founder of Well.org
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Dr. Kharrazian is a brilliant clinician educator that has inspired many as we learn the principles of Functional Medicine, myself included. He is superb at teaching clinicians the power of using functional medicine oriented history and physical examination to understand and then address the root causes of disease and health. Integrating the latest research and years of clinical experience, Dr. Kharrazian, is an international leader in Functional Medicine.
Terry Wahls, MD, IFMCP
Author, New York Times Bestselling book, The Wahls Protocol – How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine
Clinical professor of Medicine, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine
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Dr. Kharrazian’s work represents the vanguard in our understanding of the role of lifestyle choices in charting the brain’s destiny. His highly effective educational outreach has opened the door for countless healthcare providers, allowing them to dramatically increase their effectiveness in treating and indeed preventing so many of the pernicious conditions that plague our modern society.
David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM
Author, #1 New York Times Bestselling book,
Grain Brain and Brain Maker
Grain Brain and Brain Maker
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