- How to Use This Course
- The 4 Neurochemical Priorities (never get lost!)
- The Road map
- How to Work Up a Real Patient
- The 10 Core Principles
- Module 1 Review
- Myelination and Microbiota
- Magnesium and Depression
- Excitotoxicity and Glutamate
- How to handle a patient with seizures
- Key points about ALS
- Functional/Optimal Lab Ranges so far
- Preview of Celiac Disease and Non-Celiac Wheat/Gluten Sensitivity
- Preview of Parkinson’s Disease
- Every Case Study details the patient’s presentation, work up, treatment plan and follow up.
- Case Study – 48 year old woman with fatigue, chronic frequent dry cough
- Blood Tests and Codes for this Module
- CBC / Differential with Platelet Count
- Iron
- IBC
- Serum Ferritin
- Serum Methylmalonic Acid
- Homocysteine
- Serum Vitamin B12
- Serum Folic Acid
- Hereditary Hemochromatosis, DNA Analysis
- cardiac CRP (or High sensitivity CRP)
- H. Pylori Urea Breath Test
- Helicobacter pylori Antibodies, IgA, IgG, IgM
- Helicobacter pylori Stool Antigen
- Intrinsic Factor Antibodies
- Gastric Parietal Cell Antibodies
- Module 2 Tests Functional/Optimal Ranges
- Big Picture of the Neurochemical Priorities
- #2 – Cellular Energy: RBCs, Nutrients, MItochondria
- #3 – Cellular Energy: HPA Axis and Glucose Handling
- Lab Reference Ranges vs. Functional/Optimal Ranges
- What’s the difference?
- Energy Production in the Body
- Citric Acid Cycle and Nutrient Co-factors
- Physiology of Red Blood Cells
- Understanding Blood Chemistry – For each test:
- What physiology is actually being tested?
- What makes it high?
- What makes it low?
- What are the lab reference ranges?
- What is the functional/optimal ranges?
- RBC
- Hemoglobin
- Hematocrit
- MCV
- MCH
- MCHC
- RDW
- Platelet count
- Reticulocyte count
- CBC Red Blood Cell markers interpretation
- Anemia Classifications
- Iron Physiology
- Iron Testing
- What physiology is actually being tested?
- What makes it high?
- What makes it low?
- What are the lab reference ranges?
- What is the functional/optimal ranges?
- TIBC
- UIBC
- Serum
- Transferrin Saturation
- Ferritin
- Iron deficiencies
- Physical signs and symptoms
- Iron deficiency and the brain
- Causes of iron deficiency
- Work up for Iron deficiency and Iron deficiency anemia
- Treatment of Iron Deficiency and Iron deficiency anemia
- Hemochromatosis
- Iron Supplementation
- How much, what kind and when to take it
- B12 Physiology
- Absorption
- B12 Testing
- the problem with the serum B12
- Methyl Malonic Acid
- Metabolic B12 Deficiency
- Causes of B12 Deficiency
- What causes High levels of B12?
- Signs, Symptoms and Effects of Low B12
- B12 Lab testing interpretation
- B12 Supplementation
- What kinds, how much and when
- Case Study- 68 year old woman with Parkinson’s
- Case Study – 62 year old woman with depression and dysautonomia
- Folate Physiology
- Testing for Folate status
- Serum Folate
- Effects of low folate
- Causes of low folate
- Folate supplementation
- how much, what kind of and when to take it
- Homocysteine and Remethylation
- Causes of high homocysteine
- MTHFR
- Homocysteine and Depression, Bipolar, Schizophrenia, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s Disease
- Testing for homocysteine
- Treatment of high homocysteine
- Interpreting patterns of RBC markers, Iron, B12, MMA, Folate and Homocysteine
- Effects of Iron Deficiency Anemia
- Case Study – 25 year old woman with hemiparesthesia, blurry vision and dysautonomia
- Case Study – 64 year old man with Parkinson’s
- RBC Patterns on blood chemistry
- Anemias—there’s lots of them
- Treating underlying causes of an anemia
- Case Study – 42 year old woman with fatigue and depression
- Case Study – 29 year old woman with mental sluggishness, fatigue, insomnia
- Case Study – 38 year old woman with anxiety and heart palpitations
- 25 hours of training with Dr. David Clark
- All Access to the digital recording of the class
- Any future updates to the course videos or other materials
- Re-attendance for life – Retake the class on-site, via Livestream or via online, self-paced learning as many times as you’d like for attendance hours.
- 25 Neurology Hours towards the ACFN (American College of Functional Neurology) & ACNB (American Chiropractic Neurology Board) with each module
- Access to the flipped classroom with lifetime updates
- 3 months of unlimited access to Medline upon completion of the module