Save the date! Join us on Zoom this Wed Oct 14 for our first SEMDA workshop! Below are the workshop details.

Role of Functional Medicine in Balancing and Supporting Better Health

Functional medicine is a health approach that focuses on identifying the underlying causes of disease and illness. Functional medicine practitioners are medical detectives who seek to correct underlying imbalances with therapies like repairing the GI tract, detoxification, optimizing nutrition, and balancing hormones. Hormones play a vital role in stress, sleep, moods, and ageing. Your daily habits including diet affects your hormones. Symptoms from a hormonal imbalance include hot flashes, night sweats, weight gain, mood swings, skin health, and sleep disturbances.

Objectives:
1. Describe the differences between convention medicine and functional medicine.
2. Learn about laboratory and diagnostic testing that measure hormone function.
3. Identify how nutrition and Ayurveda medicine can be optimized to improve hormone function and overall well-being.
4. Examine case studies of hormone dysfunction and digestive imbalances.

Allyson Edelstein Page, DNP, PatriotDirect Family Medicine

Allyson Edelstein Page is a certified Nurse Practitioner and has been in practice for ten years, and received her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from Northeastern in 2020. She has extensive experience in the realm of both alternative and allopathic medicine. She practices Ayurvedic medicine, Functional medicine and traditional primary care. She has volunteered in several Central American countries and is a fluent Spanish speaker. Allyson’s passion lies in assisting her patients find pathways to health and wellness by utilizing diet and gentle, natural alternatives to prescription management. Her treatment modalities of choice include meditation, botanical and herbal based medicinals, and in increasing her patients’ intuitive awareness of their body’s natural metabolic rhythms. She has two small children. Her favorite past time is to pursue any kind of outdoor adventure with her children.

REGISTRATION FEES:
$20.00 for Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics members
$35.00 for non-Academy members
$10.00 for students

Registration includes 2 CEUs.

To Register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/role-of-functional-medicine-in-balancing-and-supporting-better-health-registration-121703772259

SCHEDULE:
6:30 - 8:30 pm Program
8:30 - 9:00pm Networking

SEMDA contact for further details:
Cathy O'Brien
cathyob5@comcast.net