Dr Thierry HERTOGHE

Nutritional and metabolic interventions in endocrinologyNutritional and metabolic interventions in endocrinologyNutritional and metabolic interventions in endocrinology

Nutritional and metabolic interventions in endocrinology

2 days:

Micronutrients that impact on the endocrine System and their control
•    Minerals
•    Trace elements
•    Vitamins
•    Fatty acids, etc.

Herbal treatments of endocrine deficiencies

Fat mass-influencing hormones:

•    Leptin
•    GHrelin
•    Insulin: physiology
•    Insulin secretagogues and their inhibitors
•    Glucagon-like peptide and other insulinagogues
•    Clinical case studies
•    Overcoming insulin resistance

Diabetes treatment:  

•    Type 1 diabetes: Pathogenesis, diagnosis, clinical course, insulin therapy treatment
•    Type 2 diabetes: Pathogenesis, diagnosis, clinical course, metformin treatment
•    Clinical case studies

Insulin  treatment of nondiabetics (cachexia, excessive thinness)

Bone hormones

•    Calcitonin
•    Parathormone  

Interactive sessions
Mini-exam
2 days
Hormone therapies: effects on psychology and psychiatric disorders
•    Fatigue
•    Sleep disorders
•    Depression
•    Anxiety
•    Stress resistance
•    Depression
•    Memory loss and other brain pathologies
•    Sex
•    Autism and schizophrenia
 Practical patient cases    

1 day
Neuro-endocrinology
•    Serotonin
•    Serotonin precursors
•    Dopamine
•    Adrenaline
•    Noradrenaline  
•    & Other Neuroendocrine Transmitters
•    Somatostatin
Brain Trauma and hormones
•    The hormone deficiencies cause d by brain trauma
•    Their treatment
Practical session with patient case studies

1 day

Obesity How to promote weight loss by correcting hormone deficiencies in adults; per hormone: short overview
•    The fattiest people ever in the world
•    The obese face, neck
•    Fat limbs
•    Swollen calves
•    Abdominal obesity (android obesity)
•    Hip and buttock obesity
•    Cellulite
•    Subcutaneous fat
•    Prader-Willi syndrome
•    Overview
•    Practical cases