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

Nutritional therapies for  mood, memory and sleep disorders

-    Fatigue, energy and micronutrients
-    Depression and micronutrients
-    Anxiety and micronutrients
-    Memory loss and micronutrients
-    Macular degeneration micronutrients:
-    Sleep and micronutrients

-    Interactive discussion session

Nutritional therapies and somatic disorders:

-    Coronary heart disease and micronutrients
-    Arterial hypertension and micronutrients
-    Hyperlipidemia and micronutrients
-    Increasing muscle mass and reducing fat mass with nutritional supplementation
-    Diabetes and micronutrients
-    Infections and inflammation and nutrients
-    Nutrients to fight cancer:: the randomized placebo-controlled studies
-    Plant extracts, therapies that may help fight disease and improve health


Micronutrients that impact on the endocrine System and their control

•    Minerals
•    Trace elements
•    Vitamins
•    Fatty acids, etc.

Herbal treatments of endocrine deficiencies

Insulin and insulin-influencing hormones:
 
•    Insulin: physiology
•    Overcoming insulin resistance
•    Insulin secretagogues and their inhibitors
•    Glucagon treatment
•    Glucagon-like peptides, and other gut hormones that stimulate insulin secretion and their inhibitors
•    Gastrin, the stomach hormone
•    Hormone therapies that reduce insulin resistance
•    Clinical case studies

Diabetes treatment:  

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

Insulin  treatment of nondiabetics (cachexia, excessive thinness sports abuse)

Fat-influencing hormones:

Adrenaline and fat
Prolactin and fat
Opoids and fat

Hormone doping in sports

Iodine

Inorganic iodine for nonradioactive treatment of hyper- and hypothyroidism, auto-immune diseases and many other diseases

Interactive session
Mini-exam

Nutritional therapies: theoretical
-    Mineral supplements (magnesium, calcium, potassium, sodium)
-    Fat-soluble vitamins (vitamin A, D, E , K and Co Q10)
-    Water-soluble vitamins (vitamins B’s,C, H)
-    Trace elements (zinc, iron, iodine, copper, selenium, manganese, etc.
-    Amino-acids (carnitine, glutamine, creatine, tyrosine, etc.)
-    Healthy fatty acids (omega 3-6-9)
-    Trans fatty acids
-    New functional foods from the Industry
•    Recap on nutritional therapies
•    Oxidative stress and its markers profile: lab tests
-    Aging, age-related diseases and oxidative stress: the studies that show a relationship
-    Prostate Cancer and micronutrients:: review
-    Breast cancer and micronutrients: review
-    Anti-cancer effects of vitamin A
-    Rheumatoid disorders and micronutrients
-    Osteoporosis and micronutrients
-    Stroke and micronutrients
•    Peripheral artery disease and micronutrients