Assessing Toxic Load
CLASS OVERVIEW

Do you have patients who end up in your office with mysterious symptoms that don't respond to conventional treatment?

Your patients are suffering from conditions that conventional medicine can't explain or effectively treat.

The research now clearly indicates that the chronic disease epidemic is primarily due to environmental toxins—man-made chemicals and metals released through industrialization that weren't present in our environment before.

These environmental toxins have become the primary cause of the chronic diseases you're seeing in your practice every day.

Dr. Joseph Pizzorno’s comprehensive course changes this paradigm.

Drawing from over five decades in medicine, Dr. Pizzorno has developed a systemic approach that will give you the foundational knowledge you need to address what may be the root cause of most of your patients' conditions.
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Why the traditional approach to toxins falls short

We're living through the highest burden of chronic disease in every age group in human history. The primary cause? Environmental toxins.

  • 35% of the US population currently has arsenic levels above the official threshold.

  • 20% of the US population has cadmium levels at or above the threshold for increased disease risk, and
    20% of osteoporosis cases are directly caused by cadmium toxicity.

  • Despite bans on BPA, 95% of the population still has bisphenol levels known to increase disease risk.

  • 50% of all cardiovascular deaths are due to lead or arsenic exposure.

  • 60% of our total toxic load comes from food—not just what's in the food when it's grown, but what happens during transport, packaging, storage, and cooking.

Here's the clinical reality:

Environmental toxins contribute to virtually every chronic disease. Yet many practitioners don’t know how to assess and address toxic burden appropriately.

Did You Know...

Of the 83,000 chemicals approved for use in the US, approximately 1,000 of them are present at high enough levels in the environment to pose a risk to human health.
Key biomarkers in standard tests can help indicate whether the patient's body is successfully protecting itself or if toxic damage is accumulating faster than it can handle.
Primary toxin exposure sources include breastfeeding (i.e., maternal-fetal transfer), beef and dairy products from animals that were fed contaminated feed, and fish from contaminated waters.
Diabetes, which now affects 16% of the population but was virtually nonexistent 50 years ago, is directly linked to what researchers now call "diabetogens."
For every quartile increase in bisphenol exposure, children lose 1.6 IQ points.
A simple questionnaire consisting of 10 questions can assess most major toxin exposures.

Introducing....A Revolutionary Approach to Addressing Toxic Load

He'll teach you how to use everyday lab tests as early warning systems for toxic exposure—and how to monitor treatment progress using the same inexpensive markers.

This comprehensive course is designed to give you the foundational knowledge you need to address what may be the root cause of most of your patients' conditions. In this four-hour class, you’ll learn:

  • How toxins cause disease at the cellular and systemic level.

  • Evidence-based methods to assess your patients' toxic burden from environmental exposures.

  • Practical guidance on how to address the primary cause of most chronic diseases.

By helping your patients reduce their toxic load, you’ll help them with so much more.
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COURSE FEATURES

Learn how toxins impact your patients’ health and why assessment is critical

Master the strategies of toxicity assessment, testing and treatment

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The Toxin Problem

Understand why current models fall short, the critical difference between toxins and toxicants, and how to identify key biomarkers and clinical signs of toxic overload

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Assessing Total Body Load

Learn how synergistic toxins amplify harm, why detox capacity varies widely, and how to evaluate toxic load using targeted clinical questions and key functional markers

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Indirect Measures of Toxic Load

Discover which labs offer limited predictive value, how they can still help monitor toxic burden, and the link between inflammation markers and toxic load

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Assessing Metal Load

Explore the limits of conventional testing, the latest research on metals and metalloids, and how to identify common sources and their links to chronic disease

5

Assessing Chemical Load

Examine emerging research on chemical toxins, distinguish between persistent and nonpersistent exposures, and learn how to evaluate and address chemical burden and its disease connections

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Clinical Guidance

Learn how to use targeted questionnaires, measure suspected toxins, and implement effective interventions with ongoing monitoring
 
MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
 

Joseph Pizzorno, ND

Dr. Joseph Pizzorno, ND is a transformational leader in medicine. Through half a century of work, he has helped establish and advance the academic, scientific, and clinical foundation of natural, functional, integrative, and environmental medicine. As founding president of Bastyr University in 1978, he coined the term "science-based natural medicine" and led Bastyr to become the first ever accredited institution in the field. He has set worldwide standards of practice by authoring or co-authoring 6 textbooks for doctors, including the Textbook of Natural Medicine (over 100,000 copies in 4 languages across 5 editions) and Clinical Environmental Medicine. He is Editor-in-Chief of PubMed-indexed IMCJ—the most widely read, peer-reviewed journal in the field (25,000 copies each issue). He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Institute for Functional Medicine, where he served 3 terms as Chair. A licensed naturopathic physician, educator, researcher, and expert spokesman, he is also author or co-author of 8 consumer books (most recent, Healthy Bones, Healthy You! with wife Lara). He founded SaluGenecists to develop artificial intelligence tools to help consumers and professionals improve healthcare outcomes.
 
COURSE CONTENT
 

 
Course Session Information
 

This course provides healthcare professionals with a comprehensive approach to assessing toxic load in the typical patient. 
 
SESSION 1
 

The Toxin Problem

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Why we need to rethink the toxin problem
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The difference between toxins and toxicants
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How to determine the optimal biomarkers for assessing toxic load, and how to recognize a patient with toxic overload
 
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Assessing Total Body Load

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The synergy of toxins
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The huge variation in detoxification function among patients
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How to assess toxic load in patients, particularly the most toxic patients, using key clinical questions and measures
 
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Indirect Measures of Toxic Load

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Which lab tests are less predictive than others
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Why these tests can still be used to monitor toxic load (and how to do it)
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The correlation between inflammatory markers and toxic load
 
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Assessing Metal Load

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The research behind metals and metalloids—what we know and what we don’t
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Why conventional lab tests, such as blood and serum, are not as reliable as we’d like—and what to do about it
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Common metal and metalloid toxins, their sources, and their correlation with disease
 
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Assessing Chemical Load

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The current research on chemical toxins
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The difference between persistent and nonpersistent chemicals
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How to assess and address chemical load in patients, sources of chemicals, and their correlation with disease
 
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Clinical Guidance

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Administering the guideline questionnaire to assess total toxic damage
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Measuring suspected toxins
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Intervention and monitoring
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What's Included in the Environmental Medicine – Assessing Toxins Course

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What’s included in Dr. Pizzorno's Environmental Medicine and Toxin Assessment Master Class
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4 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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Certificate of Completion upon passing the examination
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Course diagrams designed by Dr. Pizzorno
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