Reversing Disease Through Nutritional Medicine | Dr. Joel Furhman

IHN was thrilled to host an exclusive 90 minute talk with physician, natural health expert and New York Times best-selling author Dr. Joel Fuhrman on Monday February 8, 2016. Practitioners know much about nutrition and its powerful effects to create disease or protect against disease but what degree of nutritional excellence is necessary to make a diet therapeutically disease reversing? Dr. Fuhrman’s lecture was on reversing disease through nutritional medicine by discussing nutritional parameters needed to maximize lifespan: 1 Micronutrient Density 2 Comprehensive Nutrient Adequacy 3 Hormonal Favorability, Glycemic Load and Cancer 4 Avoidance of toxins/carcinogens/infectious agents Among other lecture features, Dr. Fuhrman spoke to: • Maximizing cardiac and diabetic reversal using beans, nuts and seeds • Salient features of most effective anti-cancer foods • Reviewing study data documenting effectiveness, and comparative diet outcomes • Informative case histories and methodologies of nutritional protocols • Unfavorable fatty acid index with low fat vegan diet and remedy • Conservative use of nutritional supplements to prevent and treat depression and prevent dementia.