The Health Arts College presents........
Dr. Igor Tabrizian's
Nutrition - Correspondence Course
Course Content Modules
1. Introduction to DOM
This module covers the scope and limitations of Diagnostic Orthomolecular Medicine (DOM) as taught by renowned medico, Dr Igor Tabrizian. This method based upon the "Cation Dysfunction Theory" provides a template for understanding health and disease at atomic level. It allows practitioners to analyze disease processes generically.
2. Digestion
Digestion is not just about letting things into the body; it also about keeping things out. In this sense it is a filter and a defence system. This module helps explain the biochemical, neurological and hormonal basis of digestion.
3. The Amino Acids
The module discusses the biochemistry and clinical application of the Amino Acids. This module helps explain the interrelationships between the amino acids themselves and the roles that each of play in the body (over and above just making proteins).
4. Channelopathies and Functional Deficiencies
This module looks at the missing links in modern nutritional medicine. These pieces of modern illness are conveniently left out of current Natural Medicine curricula. A vital part to understanding disease process, this section is core material to DOM practitioners.
5. Magnesium
Magnesium (The Hero) is discussed in great detail. It is the archetypal Cation example and understanding this mineral gives a great insight into hundreds of common biochemical reactions. From dietary sources (and the negative effects of modern agriculture) to the cell membrane disorders that impede its cellular uptake (the Channelopathies).
6. Manganese
Manganese (The Caterer) is discussed in detail ranging from neurology to bone production. Clinical scenarios from deficiencies to excess are also discussed. One controversial theory of "Mad Cow Disease" suggests Manganese toxicity as the cause.
7. Molybdenum
Molybdenum (The Mediator) is lacking in most Australian soils but the public would probably never had known about this mineral. The consequences of deficiency range from asthma to cancer and yet very few molybdenum supplements are available in Australia.
8. Zinc
This module explores the huge biochemical role of zinc (The Organizer). If zinc deficiency is a world wide phenomenon, why do Australian authorities warn of the dangers of supplementation? Who is right and what are the politics of the decisions made about the use of zinc in farming and medicine?
9. Selenium
This module looks at the role of selenium (The Protector) in human health. Each cell in the body (and there are 80 trillion of them) has a million selenium atoms. More is required if the body has heavy metals such as mercury or cadmium.
10. Iron
This module covers the importance of iron (The Provider) in the body. It covers the mechanisms of absorption and control of this mineral and the consequences of too much or too little.
11. Vitamin C
This module discusses the biochemical role of Vitamin C (The Builder). This module challenges the assumption that Vitamin C is always an antioxidant and verifies the definition of what is actually an antioxidant. It discusses the impact of farming practices on Vitamin C (and other vitamins) such as soil mineral levels and harvesting times.
12. Copper
According to some writers "half the world has not enough copper and the other half has too much". Even prominent members of Nutritional Colleges do not fully understand the full story on copper. This module uncovers the truth about copper status and what factors affect it. The soil is just the beginning, the water is the middle and politics is the finale of the copper saga.
13. Vitamin D
This module discusses the role of Vitamin D is human metabolism. From its well known function on the "Calcium Committee" to its little known role in immunity, Vitamin D deficiency can explain many of the epidemics seen in General Practice today.
14. Cholesterol
Cholesterol sits in the middle of the biochemical pathway from Acetyl CoA to the steroid hormones. What is the truth about cholesterol and its vascular disease link? What does a high cholesterol really mean?
15. Tissue Mineral Analysis (how to read one)
Despite TMA (tissue mineral analysis) having a 40 year history and using the most accurate medical instrument available (the mass spectrometer), it has not won support from the medical profession.
16. Toxins and their metabolic effects
This module discusses the frightening subject of toxins in our everyday lives in both domestic and occupational exposures. It covers the toxic elements, chemicals (with focus on pesticides) and the food additives.
17. Endocrine Integration
Hormones are frequently misunderstood messengers. Standard Endocrinology books leave out how hormones interact with themselves, the minerals and the immune system. This module helps practitioners to understand how all the parts work together. Hormone clinics are springing up all over Australia.
18. Nutritional Neuropathology
This module deals with the nutrition of the nervous system with special reference to 4 controlling factors. Growth, Repair, Decay and Damage. It looks generically at the issues which determine cell function and longevity. Four specific examples of Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s and Autism are discussed, but with DOM any neurological disorder can be analyzed.
19. Fatigue
Chronic fatigue Syndrome may affect up to 8% of the Australian population but "feeling tired" is a common presentation to Australian practitioners. Understanding the pattern of fatigue can lead to the mechanism of energy loss. Surprisingly the commonest cause of fatigue seen in Nutritional Medicine practices is probably copper overload.
20. Immunity
This module analyses the nutritional and hormonal aspects of immunity and leads to a direct understanding of impaired immunity, autoimmunity, cancer and allergies. The medical model uses Antibiotics, Steroids, Antihistamines and Chemotherapy to "manage" immune issues with a high side-effect rate and an abysmal long term success rate.
21. Diabetes
This model looks at the factors that control blood glucose. Frequently dysglycaemia is diagnosed late and treated with "pancreatic solutions" without any understanding of the control mechanisms of glucose metabolism. The pancreas is frequently not to blame and practitioners should be taught how to think about high glucose as a messenger of disease rather than a disease in its own right.
22. Cancer
Oncologists never try to analyze the immune defects in their patients. They never identify the carcinogen despite the scientific fact that carcinogens cause 95% of cancers. Removing the carcinogen and repairing the immune system are paramount to the DOM method of helping cancer patients. If one uses the analogy of a SWAT team, checking if the team has enough weaponry is the first part of the analysis. Checking to see that the weaponry works (or how it was sabotaged) is the next step. Finally the SWAT team may make incorrect decisions about the rules of engagement because of nutritional factors. Natural therapists mostly use immunostimulants such an Cat’s Claw).
Basic Nutrition course / Modules 1 - 14: $495 exc manuals (80hrs / AKA 53hrs)
Advanced Nutrition course / Modules 15 - 22: $495 exc manuals (80hrs / AKA 53hrs)
Texts: Laugh with Health $35 & Visual Textbook of Nutritional Medicine $75 & Optimal Nutrition Bible (Patrick Holford) $45
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