Recommended Seminars:

Professional Clinical Training in the Eclectic Triphasic medical system It has always been known that in medicine and healing the real learning comes by doing, hence the residency programs of doctors and the preceptorship of naturopaths. However, for those wishing to specialize in botanical and nutritional medicine as primary therapies, and the true integration of wholistic medicine or “healthy medicine” with conventional medicine, there has been a lack of experts with which to train. There simply are not enough clinicians specializing in this form of healing while more and more patients are presenting increasingly complicated and often advanced states of disease combined with a myriad of negative drug interactions.

American College for the Advancement of Medicine puts on two meetings per year. Their seminars run the gamut from good to outstanding. ACAM is one of the oldest nutrition organizations, and they deserve a lot of credit for helping doctors and other health care practitioners learn and implement the latest findings in nutritional medicine.
http://www.acam.org

The American College of Nutrition puts on a yearly meeting that is excellent. We also recommend subscribing to their outstanding journal.
http://www.amcollnutr.org

The Institute for Functional Medicine puts on a yearly conference filled with brilliant speakers. However, their conferences are occasionally 1. not filled with enough clinically useful information and 2. is surprisingly drug-oriented at times. But, I still like and recommend them. They are also doing other seminars throughout the year that look superb. Take your brain nutrients, and go!
http://www.functionalmedicine.org

Nutritional Therapy in Medical Practice with Alan Gaby MD and Jonathan Wright MD took place in December 2003. you simply must get the tapes/CDs from this important conference, which are filled with clinical pearls. Especially useful for those just starting to use nutrition in their practice, the tapes/CDs and manual from this seminar will load you up with documentation nearly all of the interventions recommended. If they do the seminar again, go!
http://www.doctorgaby.com/gaby

OHM stands for the Society for Orthomolecular Medicine Health, an organization in San Francisco headed up by Richard Kunin, MD. At the end of February each year, Dr. Kunin celebrates the birthday of Linus Pauling by putting on an excellent nutrition seminar in San Francisco. This is often one of the best seminars of the year, featuring some of the most cutting-edge practitioners and researchers. This year their four day seminar focuses on Lyme disease for two days and heart health for the other two.
http://www.orthomed.org

Metabolic Typing for the determination of dietary intervention is a topic I do not fully understand. How can we know which dietary change of the many recommended by metabolic typing is the one responsible for any of the possible benefits seen in such a system? Yet, nutritionists I respect like David Vaughn say it is the basis for the success of their practice and that it is essential for the effective treatment for a wide range of ailments. So, perhaps the best thing to do is attend seminars put on by various researchers in this area and decide for yourself. Be sure to also visit our audio archive page and download all the free presentations from BoulderFest 2004 where this topic was examined in depth by all of the researchers listed below. Nutritionist Bill Wolcott has been doing metabolic typing longer than anyone else. His website is www.metabolictyping.com. Harold Kristal, DDS and James Haig, CNC have a clinic in Northern California where they use a different version of metabolic typing. Their information and seminar schedule can be found at www.bloodph.com.www.bloodph.com. Dr. Laura Power has done extensive research on her patients on blood types and food allergies. Her website is www.laurapower.com.