Advanced Nutrition Topics
FPM-40620
The course builds on the foundation, established in the course “Food as Medicine: The Art and Science of Self-Healing,” for a career-focused training program Certificate in Integrative Nutrition. Taught by leading national experts, it provides students with advanced theoretical perspectives and targeted applications of the use of food as medicine. These are applied to the prevention and management of several common, important health problems. It begins with an examination of nutritional strategies for clinical care, including the use of whole food, plant-based diets, medical foods, fasting, and functional medicine. It then proceeds to link diet to the development and treatment of several important issues in clinical medicine including heart disease, cancer, blinding eye disease, and women’s health. It then exposes students to differing viewpoints on and helps them to think critically about some of the hottest topics and deepest controversies in the field (such as the emerging understanding of the role of the human microbiome and the pros and cons of genetic engineering of foods). Finally, it offers new ways of conceptualizing how to apply and research the use of food as medicine. The course is taught through a series of online lectures, assigned readings, and online discussion.
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the scientific relationship of food with the development, progression, and treatment of several common, important health concerns.
- Understand the rationale for and healing properties of a whole food, plant-based diet and its targeting toward specific health problems.
- Explain the uses of specific medical foods including their scientific basis, healing properties, and clinical applications.
- Discuss and provide an overview of Functional Medicine and how it may be used therapeutically to help ameliorate a variety of health problems.
- Explain different approaches to fasting and fast-mimicking diets and their clinical applications.
- Discuss the human microbiome and its scientific underpinnings, relationship with and modulation by food, and far-reaching health implications.
- Articulate and explain different perspectives on major controversies in the field of diet and nutrition.
- Conceptualize and provide an example of how individual data may be used to research and understand the impact of diet on disease.
Course Information
Course sessions
Section ID:
Class type:
This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Textbooks:
No textbook required.
Policies:
- No refunds after: 9/27/2024
Schedule:
Instructor:
Gordon Saxe, MD, PhD, MPH
Medical Director, Integrative Nutrition & Natural Medicine Director of Research and Preventive Medicine Physician Ctr for Integrative Medicine, UCSD
Dr. Gordon Saxe is the director of research, a preventive and integrative medicine physician, a founding member of the UC San Diego Center for Integrative Medicine and co-developer of the UC San Diego Natural Healing & Cooking Program. He is also the recipient of a prestigious NIH Career Development Award from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Dr. Saxe is a national expert in cancer and complementary and alternative medicine, and most well-known for his pioneering work in the combined use of a plant-based diet and body-mind stress reduction to control the progression of advanced prostate cancer. His previous studies have included: epidemiology of diet and cancers of prostate, breast and pancreas; diet and body-mind exercise to control spread/of advanced prostate cancer; and diet and gene expression in prostate cancer. His background in complementary and alternative medicine includes study in: nutritional healing in regards to diet, vitamins/minerals, herbals, and other non-drug medicines; exercise modalities of yoga, t’ai chi, and other body-mind approaches; and eastern and western systems such as Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, homeopathy, macrobiotics and natural hygiene.
Prior to coming to UC San Diego, Dr. Saxe was the medical director for the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He received his M.D. at Michigan State University, his Ph.D. in Epidemiology at the University of Michigan and his M.P.H. in Nutrition at Tulane University. He completed residency training at the University of Massachusetts and is board certified in Preventive Medicine.
Section ID:
Class type:
This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Textbooks:
No textbook required.
Policies:
- No refunds after: 1/10/2025
Schedule:
Instructor:
Gordon Saxe, MD, PhD, MPH
Medical Director, Integrative Nutrition & Natural Medicine Director of Research and Preventive Medicine Physician Ctr for Integrative Medicine, UCSD
Dr. Gordon Saxe is the director of research, a preventive and integrative medicine physician, a founding member of the UC San Diego Center for Integrative Medicine and co-developer of the UC San Diego Natural Healing & Cooking Program. He is also the recipient of a prestigious NIH Career Development Award from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
Dr. Saxe is a national expert in cancer and complementary and alternative medicine, and most well-known for his pioneering work in the combined use of a plant-based diet and body-mind stress reduction to control the progression of advanced prostate cancer. His previous studies have included: epidemiology of diet and cancers of prostate, breast and pancreas; diet and body-mind exercise to control spread/of advanced prostate cancer; and diet and gene expression in prostate cancer. His background in complementary and alternative medicine includes study in: nutritional healing in regards to diet, vitamins/minerals, herbals, and other non-drug medicines; exercise modalities of yoga, t’ai chi, and other body-mind approaches; and eastern and western systems such as Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, homeopathy, macrobiotics and natural hygiene.
Prior to coming to UC San Diego, Dr. Saxe was the medical director for the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. He received his M.D. at Michigan State University, his Ph.D. in Epidemiology at the University of Michigan and his M.P.H. in Nutrition at Tulane University. He completed residency training at the University of Massachusetts and is board certified in Preventive Medicine.
