Lifestyle and behavioral interventions are often key components of clinical treatment strategies, but at times are the most challenging for patients to implement. Laboratory testing can aid clinicians in designing the type and degree of interventions that can best target the patient’s needs, resulting in the biggest impact. This webinar will focus on how to utilize laboratory testing to uncover hidden lifestyle factors affecting patient health and the current ways to approach lifestyle modifications in your practice. In addition, a review of key profiles— including the NutrEval, Adrenal Stress Profile, and Food Antibody tests—will provide clinicians with enhanced tools to support patients making lifestyle and behavioral changes, by determining what changes can result in the greatest outcomes.
Objectives:
1. How clinicians can utilize laboratory testing to support lifestyle changes
2. Learn current strategies and tools for successfully enacting positive behavior changes in your practice
3. What specific changes have the biggest impact on changing test results and improving health
Presented by:
Michael Chapman, NDMichael Chapman, ND
Michael Chapman, N.D., is a licensed naturopathic physician who graduated from Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington. Upon graduation, he spent three years in private practice before joining the team at Genova Diagnostics. His areas of clinical focus are hormone regulation, gastrointestinal health, and autonomic balance.
Prior to medical school, Dr. Chapman earn his Bachelor of Science degree from Indiana University with a focus in neuropsychology. He later worked as a microbiologist performing pharmaceutical research on cancer cell lines.
Dr. Chapman has a passion for learning and helping others come to a greater understanding of the vast and dynamic processes that exist and interact within the human body.
You can help prevent high blood pressure by having a healthy lifestyle. This means:
Eating a healthy diet. To help manage your blood pressure, you should limit the amount of sodium (salt) that you eat and increase the amount of potassium in your diet. It is also important to eat foods that are lower in fat, as well as plenty of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. The DASH eating plan is an example of an eating plan that can help you to lower your blood pressure.
Getting regular exercise. Exercise can help you maintain a healthy weight and lower your blood pressure. You should try to get moderate-intensity aerobic exercise at least 2 and a half hours per week, or vigorous-intensity aerobic exercise for 1 hour and 15 minutes per week. Aerobic exercise, such as brisk walking, is any exercise in which your heart beats harder and you use more oxygen than usual.
Being at a healthy weight. Being overweight or having obesity increases your risk for high blood pressure. Maintaining a healthy weight can help you control high blood pressure and reduce your risk for other health problems.
Limiting alcohol. Drinking too much alcohol can raise your blood pressure. It also adds extra calories, which may cause weight gain. Men should have no more than two drinks per day, and women only one.
Not smoking. Cigarette smoking raises your blood pressure and puts you at higher risk for heart attack and stroke. If you do not smoke, do not start. If you do smoke, talk to your health care provider for help in finding the best way for you to quit.
Managing stress. Learning how to relax and manage stress can improve your emotional and physical health and lower high blood pressure. Stress management techniques include exercising, listening to music, focusing on something calm or peaceful, and meditating.
If you already have high blood pressure, it is important to prevent it from getting worse or causing complications. You should get regular medical care and follow your prescribed treatment plan. Your plan will include healthy lifestyle habit recommendations and possibly medicines.
