Genetic Diagnostics 2011 (awaiting BANT CPD approval)
A must for all healthcare practitioners and students
Dates: 2011 - TBC
Times: 10am - 5pm
Venue: CNELM, 2 Edward Court, Wellington Road
Organisers: CNELM
For Prices and Registration details: coming soon!
Speakers include:
Sue McGinty - TBC
Dr Michael Culp - TBC
You will find out about:
The focus of the module is for the nutritional therapist to devise sound preventative health care programmes based on appropriate selection and interpretation of genetic profiles for a range of complex but common genetic disorders in which nutrition, lifestyle and environment are known to play a significant part. Virtually all of the most pervasive and disabling degenerative diseases are believed to arise from an ongoing interaction between our genetic inheritance and environmental factors.
It was first proposed in 1902 by the British physician, Archibald Garrod, that genetic individuality can influence nutrient requirements and increase the probability of disease if the nutrient need is not met. Biochemical individuality was a term coined by Dr Roger Williams in the 1950’s. He said ‘nutrition applied with due concern for individual genetic variations, which may be large, offers the solution to many baffling health problems’. He also posed his hypothesis ‘practically every human being is a deviate in some respect … with an important bearing upon the susceptibility of the individual… to disease later in life’. Preventive genetic diagnostics helps to explain why individuals are affected differently by the same environmental factors. Nutrigenomics is where clinical medicine and nature converge for improved patient outcomes.
Learning outcomes: the activity should enable the participant to:
1. Justify how modifications to nutrition and lifestyle might modify the development of genetic disease in which nutrition, lifestyle and environment are known to play a part.
2. Draw on the scientific evidence to support the selection of screening tools to help evaluate risk for developing a genetic disorder in which nutrition, lifestyle and environment are known to play a part.
3. Justify succinctly to peers and tutor/s how the scientific evidence was used to help guide selection of screening tools for individuals at risk of developing genetic diseases related to nutrition, lifestyle and environment integrating two related aspects of genetic screening.
4. Draw on a range of sources of evidence to justify in the form of a critical commentary how modifications to nutrition and lifestyle might modify risk for developing genetic diseases linked to nutrition and lifestyle.
5. Apply the scientific evidence to a case history with identified genetic risk markers that are known to be modifiable by changes in nutrition and lifestyle.
6. Effectively use feedback given by and to peers by peers and tutors to help revise and/or strengthen choice of screening tools for evaluating risk of individuals at risk of developing genetic diseases in which nutrition and environment are linked.
