8.0 CECs / Research Articles / Quiz

In‌ ‌this 8.0 continuing education credit (CEC) course, Fundamentals of Health Behavior Change, ‌you‌ ‌will‌ ‌explore‌ ‌and‌ ‌build‌ ‌a‌ ‌fundamental‌ ‌awareness‌ ‌of‌ ‌the psychology of health behavior, how health behaviors can be changed, and coaching strategies and techniques to promote health behavior change. Specifically, you will learn about:

• The various models of health behavior and behavior modification
• The psychology of health beliefs and how people make health-related decisions
• How various frameworks of health behavior psychology can be applied in practice
• The social determinants of health and factors that impact health behavior actions and decisions
• Practical coaching, behavior modification, and counseling strategies

6.0 CECs / Research Articles / Quiz

In‌ this 6.0 hour continuing education credit (CEC) course, ‌Natural and Herbal Strategies for Menopause, ‌you‌ ‌will‌ ‌explore‌ ‌and‌ ‌build‌ ‌a‌ ‌fundamental‌ ‌awareness‌ ‌of‌ ‌the various natural strategies (such as complementary medicine practice and mind-body practices) and the medicinal herbs that have may have an effect on the biological processes associated with menopause. Specifically, you will explore:

• How menopause impacts human physiology and biology
• Why certain hormones cause certain signs and symptoms
• The various symptoms and risk factors associated with menopause
• Traditional, complementary, alternative, natural, and holistic practices for menopause
• The level of evidence for certain holistic strategies and herbs for menopause
• Practical strategies for implementing these strategies for your clients experiencing menopause

20.0 CECs / Research Articles & Video Lectures / Quizzes

Natural and Herbal Strategies for Menopause (6.0 CECs)

In this course, you‌ ‌will‌ ‌explore‌ ‌and‌ ‌build‌ ‌a‌ ‌fundamental‌ ‌awareness‌ ‌of‌ ‌the various natural strategies (such as complementary medicine practice and mind-body practices) and the medicinal herbs that have may have an effect on the biological processes associated with menopause. Specifically, you will explore:

• How menopause impacts human physiology and biology
• Why certain hormones cause certain signs and symptoms
• The various symptoms and risk factors associated with menopause
• Traditional, complementary, alternative, natural, and holistic practices for menopause
• The level of evidence for certain holistic strategies and herbs for menopause
• Practical strategies for implementing these strategies for your clients experiencing menopause

Hormones & Environmental Toxins (8.0 CECs)

In Hormones & Environmental Toxins, you will:

• Explore the fundamentals of endocrine and hormone disrupting chemicals and environmental health
• Understand how industry regulation influences environmental health
• Gain familiarity with the various diseases and hormonal disruption that results from environmental chemicals
• Learn about the most common endocrine-disrupting chemicals that the majority of the population in America is exposed to
• Understand fundamental applied practical strategies for reducing exposure and the hormonal and endocrine effects of environmental toxicants and endocrine-disrupting chemicals

Nutritional Strategies for Endometriosis (6.0 CECs)

In Nutritional Strategies for Endometriosis, you’ll gain a fundamental understanding of the:

• Significance of endometriosis among your clients and the healthcare system
• Signs, symptoms, and causes of endometriosis from an integrative perspective
• Pathophysiology and theories of endometriosis
• Special considerations for your clients with endometriosis
• Integrative and holistic nutritional, supplementation, herbal, and lifestyle strategies for endometriosis
• Strategies for incorporating this knowledge into your practice

6.0 CECs / Video Lecture / Quiz

Endometriosis is a complex disease that affects up to 40% of women with infertility challenges and up to 10% of all females of reproductive age. Even more alarming is that it can take up to ten years for someone to be diagnosed with endometriosis. As a health, nutrition, and wellness professional, you’re in a unique position to provide support, guidance, and education to those with endometriosis.

8.0 CECs / On-Demand Webinar & Narrative Review / Quiz

Recent research suggests that more than 85% of our health status can be attributed not to our genes, but to our environment. This not only includes the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the stress we’re exposed to in our day-to-day lives, but also the chemicals inside of our personal care products, food, makeup, cookware, cleaning products, and clothing. Our exposure to these chemicals can add up fast and in some cases, they can play a major role in the development and severity of a number of chronic, hormonal, and autoimmune diseases.
There are over 84,000+ chemicals registered for use in the United States, but only 200 or so have been actually tested for safety. This leaves many health coaches, nutritionists, and wellness and fitness professionals often wondering how these chemicals may be impacting their clients health, especially their hormones.

8.0 CECs / Webinar & Narrative Review / Quiz

In the course The Science of Anti-Nutrients in Food, you will learn how all nutrients from food play a critical role in maintaining the integrity of a number of different vital bodily functions. For most people, eating a colorful, whole-foods based diet is sufficient enough to provide an adequate supply of these nutrients to both promote and optimize health. But in some cases, these very same nutrients that are usually beneficial to our body (all of which are quite common) can be detrimental.

These nutrients are called anti-nutrients. And if you are a nutrition, health, or wellness professional who regularly provides coaching, counseling, or guidance to clients who regularly consume plant-based foods and have chronic or autoimmune disease, you need to be aware of how anti-nutrients may be impacting your clients.

8.0 CECs / eBook / CEC Exam

Eat healthy. Exercise. Be happy. It sounds easy enough, so why is it so difficult? Because, as millions of women know, it’s not easy. There are challenges and obstacles, and health programs are not one size fits all.

Sohee Lee understands, because she’s faced the challenges and overcome them. As a trainer, presenter, and author, she’s shared her experiences and helped others establish healthy relationships with food and exercise for long-term results.

In the book Eat. Lift. Thrive. she empowers you with tools and strategies to make your own change. With this health and fitness guide, you will learn how to identify issues that are holding you back and what you can do to get back on track. You’ll find motivation, exercise, and advice. You’ll learn how to

• Incorporate Lee’s Living Lean Guidelines to make your diet work around your life, rather than the other way around;
• Perform her Primary Strength Movements and integrate them into an effective workout program; and
• Adjust your routine to maintain the results you’ve achieved.

Eat. Lift. Thrive. also provides you with a structured, easy-to-follow 12-week training program. The program can be scaled according to your training experience, time commitment, and goals; it’s completely customizable to ensure that your changes are lasting.

8.0 CECs / Quiz

This 2 hour online presentation features the discussion of topics related to holistic health and nutrition. The presentation includes written transcripts for each topic as well as comprehensive linked references for further research.

Holistic Health and Nutrition Topics covered:

• Getting Under Our Skin: BPA on Receipts
• Checking Children’s Cholesterol
• LDL Cholesterol and Heart Disease
• Black Raspberry Supplements Tested
• Animal Protein and Stress Hormones
• Is Obesity Infectious?
• How to Reduce Stroke Risk with Diet
• Donating Blood to Prevent Heart Disease
• Donating Blood to Prevent Cancer
• Turmeric and Inflammatory Pseudotumor
• Is Soy Good or Bad for Breast Cancer?
• Breast Cancer Risk and Soy
• Treating Endometriosis with Seaweed
• Milk & Type 1 Diabetes
• Meat & Type 1 Diabetes
• Paratuberculosis in Meat
• Miso Soup: Soy vs. Sodium
• Marjoram for PCOS
• Treating PCOS with Diet
• How to Stop Hiccups
• Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection
• Do Vitamin C Supplements Prevent Colds?
• Does Aspartame Cause Cancer?
• Can Green Tea Help Prevent Cancer?
• Can Green Tea Help Treat Cancer?
• Supplement Industry & Carnitine/TMAO

Expanded Discussion Topics: 

• Checking Children’s Cholesterol
  Risk factors that correlate with the extent of such early lesions are the same risk factors that correlate with [heart attacks] later in life.” In other words, it’s the same disease, just in the early stages. Pathologists are seeing all this coronary artery disease in younger people and children.
• Animal Protein and Stress Hormones
  A single meal high in animal protein can nearly double the level of stress hormone in the blood within a half hour of consumption—much more than a meal closer to the recommended level of protein. Give someone a meal of crabmeat, tuna fish, or cottage cheese, and the stress hormone levels shoots up.
• Breast Cancer Risk and Soy
  Eating soy foods appears to protect against the cancer coming back. Women who ate the most soy had a 29% lower risk of dying from breast cancer, and a 36% lower risk of cancer recurrence. Soy food intake is associated with longer survival and lower recurrence among breast cancer patients. With an average intake of soy phytonutrients above 17 milligrams a day, which is about what’s found in a single cup of soy milk, the mortality of breast cancer may be able to be reduced by as much as 38%.
• Treating PCOS with Diet 
  The highest AGE levels are found in broiled, grilled, fried, and roasted foods of mostly “animal origin.” Is it possible that this causal chain starts with a bad diet—like lots of fried chicken—which leads to obesity, which then, in turn, leads to PCOS?
• Meat & Type 1 Diabetes 
  Studies that have followed thousands of “mother-child pairs” found that eating meat during breastfeeding was associated with an increased risk of both preclinical and full-blown type 1 diabetes by the time their child reached age 8. They thought it might be the glycotoxins—the AGEs found in cooked meat—that can be transferred through breastfeeding.