Integrative/Functional

Patients with prediabetes or diabetes can improve glycemic control through intensive management, good lifestyle choices, and a mix of integrative and traditional therapies. Following individualized diabetes care, preventing or reversing existing complications is possible.

This evidence-based Mayo Clinic book discusses the underlying causes of IBD and how it strikes, how to improve health, plus medications, integrative therapies, and surprising ways the diseases can affect other parts of the body, including a possible cancer connection for some.

This book is very readable and attention-grabbing! It is known that many chronic diseases have their roots in dysfunctional mitochondria. Modern research shows nutrition can optimize its function along with other good lifestyle decisions. The book answers the questions: Why at times do antioxidants do more harm than good? What’s the connection between heart disease and Alzheimer’s, or infertility and hearing loss? 

Nutrition practitioners must develop and maintain the counseling, interviewing, motivational, and educational skills they'll need to be successful. Throughout this 8th edition book, the authors focus on effective nutrition interventions, evidence-based theories and models, clinical nutrition principles, and knowledge of behavioral science and educational approaches.

Written by physicians with nutrition expertise for practicing clinicians. It is evidence-based nutrition therapy across the full expanse of health and disease. New data from hundreds of studies is included in this edition along with enhanced coverage of controversial topics. 

Clinicians need this exciting book! Despite aggressive pharmaceutical and surgical interventions, coronary artery disease (CAD) is still the number #1 killer. Learn evidence-based nutrition and integrative therapies by leading experts in cardiovascular medicine. 

Popular physician, Peter Attia, draws upon the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional, exercise, and mental health solutions for healthier aging. He exposes traditional medicine’s delays in treatment for chronic diseases and use of drugs instead of more effective lifestyle changes.

This course is only for CHES practitioners.

Popular physician, Peter Attia, draws upon the latest science to deliver innovative nutritional, exercise, and mental health solutions for healthier aging. He exposes traditional medicine’s delays in treatment for chronic diseases and use of drugs instead of more effective lifestyle changes.

Evidence-based guide to the uses, benefits, and practical application of a plant-based diet. Based upon the UK’s first university-based course on plant-based nutrition, which takes a holistic and systems-based (heart, respiratory, kidneys, liver, and gut) approach. Each chapter is written by experts in the topic. For clinicians, counselors, and all health professionals.

Only three percent of CKD patients see a dietitian earlier than one year before dialysis when nutrition intervention could make a bigger impact. Kidney research has started to show benefits and guidelines have started to change to support recommending more fruits and vegetables for people with chronic kidney disease, reducing associated diseases like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension.

This book and its course focus on biodiversity’s crucial role in food systems, adequate food supply, health and well-being, and the fate of the natural environment. The author and 37 contributors give practical recommendations for moving forward. 

New editors! Twenty years of excellence! Updates in all major areas of pediatric nutrition, including physical assessment, MNT interventions, burns, weight, integrative medicine, and genetic disorders. Resource for specialty exam reviews for RDNs and MDs.

A silent health crisis is impacting 33% of Americans—nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. If your liver becomes overwhelmed, it can lead to fatigue, weight gain, liver disease, diabetes, and autoimmune disease. Written by an expert integrative RDN, nutrition manager at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute along with a hepatic physician.

The author, Layal Liverpool, a virologist, immunologist, and science journalist, reveals the fatal stereotypes that keep people of color undiagnosed, untreated, and unsafe, and she tells us what to do about it. The Covid pandemic taught us that it disproportionately affected people of color.

This course is only for CHES practitioners.

The author, Layal Liverpool, a virologist, immunologist, and science journalist, reveals the fatal stereotypes that keep people of color undiagnosed, untreated, and unsafe, and she tells us what to do about it. The Covid pandemic taught us that it disproportionately affected people of color.

Autoimmune diseases are now more common than cancer in the US. This book & course cover at least 8 of the most common auto immunities and how to control symptoms naturally to optimize a person’s quality of life. Diet type, food allergies, and food variations are all individual depending upon the person and their diagnosis. Evidence-based.

This course is only for CHES practitioners. 

Autoimmune diseases are now more common than cancer in the US. This book & course cover at least 8 of the most common auto immunities and how to control symptoms naturally to optimize a person’s quality of life. Diet type, food allergies, and food variations are all individual depending upon the person and their diagnosis. Evidence-based.

This course offers new research on the causes and treatments for autoimmune diseases. Written by Harvard-trained Dr. Sara Szal Gottfried, MD from integrative and functional lens, she addresses the root causes and the lifestyle advice for lifelong healing. Emerging research shows that up to 80% of patients experienced significant emotional distress before getting sick.

Excellent book from the Australian dietitian and fellow researcher who created the low-FODMAP diet! They are world-renowned researchers on celiac and IBS. The book covers the physiology of GI issues, determining triggers, and teaches how to implement the low-FODMAP diet with menus and 180 pages of recipes.

Lymphedema treatment is an emerging area of interest and historically misunderstood and underdiagnosed. If started early, nutrition and exercise, along with treatment can stop or delay progression of the condition characterized by fluid retention and swelling that impacts about 10 million people in North America. It can be caused by infection, injury, genetic disorder, or as a complication of cancer treatment.