Dr Thierry HERTOGHE

Module 2 : Diet, obesity management and major anti-ageing therapies Module 2 : Diet, obesity management and major anti-ageing therapies Module 2 : Diet, obesity management and major anti-ageing therapies

Module 2 : Diet, obesity management and major anti-ageing therapies

The ABC of lifespan medicine (adapted to the module):

Macronutrients and health and lifespan: 1 day 1/2
•    Good proteins: fish, meat, poultry
•    Controversial proteins (milk, .., plant, burned animal protein)
•    Healthy carbohydrates: vegetables and fruits
•    Sweet cravings


Dysbiosis
•    Intestinal yeast infection
•    Parasitic infections
•    Leaky gut syndrome and its lab tests

Digestive system and cancer prevention:
•    Probiotics
•    Aids for digestion: hydrochloric acid
Digestive system and cancer prevention:

•    Pancreatic and plant enzymes

Diets of longer life

Toxic drinks

Electrolyte and pH balance:

•    Acid-base balancing in diet, drink water and lifestyle: introduction
•    Acid-base balancing workshop

Obesity and health management:

•    How to reduce insulin
•    Toxic foods
•    Treatment of too thin patients
•    Diets that provide you with quick or full-day energy
•    Intermittent fasting ((missing))

Factors that impact on the Endocrine System:

•    Diet

Hormone, appetite and overweight

•    Leptin
•    GHrelin
•    Other  hormones of appetite (Cholecystokin, …)
•    Treatment of obese persons with hormone treatments
•    Bulimia and anorexia

Famous people:

•    Famous endocrinologists and anti-aging therapists
•    The hormone deficiencies of famous people

Adrenal hormones:

•    Safe cortisol treatment
•    DHEA treatment
•    Controversies on DHEA treatment
•    7-keto-DHEA
•    Androstenedione
•    Aldosterone
and how to manage treatment problems

Interactive sessions
Mini-exam

Pineal hormone:

•    Melatonin deficiency and treatment
•    Treating melatonin deficiency in patients with lab tests within reference ranges
•    Critical studies on cancer and sleep
•    Melatonin controversies

Macronutrients and health and lifespan:

•    The milk paradox
•    Grains, cereals: the controversy (bread, pastas, muesli)
•    Sprouted grains: the only edible grains?
•    Fibre and health
•    Sugar, sweets, soft drinks and other carbs
•    Healthy and unhealthy fats
•    The cholesterol paradox
•    False claims in food industry

Obesity management:

•    Statistics on leanness and overweight
•    Diets to lose weight (Atkins, Paleolithic Diet, South beach diet, Zone diet, Montignac diet, Pritikin, Shelton, etc.)
•    Water: longevity and preventive effects on age-related disease
•    The psychology of obesity
•    Healthy foods to eat
•    Healthy food habits