Perinatal Health: Epigenetics and Parental Nutrition (Online)

This 12-hour course explores the intersection of epigenetics, nutrition, and perinatal health, designed for chiropractors seeking to integrate nutritional science into their practice. Attendees will gain a vitalistic understanding of nutrition and learn how lifestyle-based eating patterns affect health at the ecosystemic and epigenetic levels, with implications for future generations.

The curriculum covers the latest findings in epigenetics and examines the roles of sugar and pH in health and disease. Participants will explore the relationships between nutrition, fertility, and family health, understanding how optimal nutrition can improve fertility and how poor nutrition can weaken it. The course also addresses the critical effects of nutrition during and after pregnancy.

• -Gain a vitalistic understanding of nutrition and its role in health
• -Create a working knowledge of lifestyle-based ways of eating
• -Understand nutrition from an ecosystematic level
• -Understand nutrition from an epigenetic level
• -Understand how nutritional choices affect future generations
• -Explore the relationships between epigenetics, nutrition, fertility, and family health
• -Learn how optimal nutrition can improve fertility
• -Understand how poor nutrition can weaken fertility
• -Understand the effects of nutrition during pregnancy
• -Understand the effects of nutrition after pregnancy