Possible Presentation Topics for Barry Taylor, ND “Our capacity to heal is far greater than we were ever led to believe.” • Intro to Naturopathy Join one of the country's leading experts in natural medicine as he reviews how herbal medicine, homeopathy, and nutrition can improve your health. He'll focus on ways to optimize your general energy, stabilize your blood sugar, and eat for a healthier immune system. You'll learn why the digestion process is as important as what you eat; about various ways to stimulate healing; and the difference between healing and symptomatic relief. He'll also discuss how stress affects physical symptoms and the simple actions can you take to minimize the effects of stress . • Stress Without Distress What if stress were actually good and part of what we need to grow and be creative? What is the distinction between stress and distress? How do we assess demands that are beyond our coping strategies? And what are ways to increase our resources that might have us perceive demands differently? Let’s explore how to transform distress into stress? • Nutrition for a Strong Immune System What is a strong immune system? How does distress impact your immune system? Nutrition impacts allergies, chronic infections ie LYME or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, chronic Candidiasis, colitis, asthma, or autoimmune concerns that affect our joint, skin digestion, hormones and our thinking. • Holistic Approaches to Weight Management The challenges of healthy weight loss and maintaining and sustaining weight loss can be overwhelming. Do you know people who cannot lose weight easily? How many do not maintain the weight loss for very long without continuing to be strictly disciplined? The failures in achieving or maintaining results related to weight can be tragic and rob us of our physical vitality and emotional resilence. .Discussions will focus on solid nutrition ie food, herbs, and supplements that assist the body to burn fat. Attitudes, beliefs, emotions and feelings about food and nourishment and our body, as well as our relationship to weight loss is all part of how effective we are in healing or fighting with the scale.
• Balancing Your Hormones Balancing Your Life How do hormones signal different actions in the body.? What are hormones and how they do they affect energy and fatigue; what foods, supplements and herbs support or impair hormone function? What is the relationship of hormones and sugar cravings and blood sugar stability, i.e., hypoglycemia and diabetes. Let’s review every thing you need to know about estrogen and progesterone that include PMS and Menopause prevention and treatment, how hormones affect breast health, the role of hormones and sex drive, as well as understanding hormone driven cancers. • Detox for Health There are various nutrition-based approaches to achieving optimal health. One is to build, tonify, and strengthen different organ systems. Another is to clear the body of toxins, chemicals, and heavy metals, focusing on the organs of elimination to improve their function. Over the last 50 years, Dr. Taylor has guided over 15,000 patients through cleansing and detox programs. Let’s explore a comprehensive overview of the process, and gain a deeper understanding of ways that detoxifying the body and removing ~physical interferences can encourage organs to work more efficiently, reducing symptoms to allow the body to heal naturally. • Children’s Health Too often, trips to a pediatrician are about treating symptoms or tracking growth to see if a child is within statistical norms. We'll focus instead on specific steps you can take to help your children learn and focus more easily; and strengthen their immune systems to prevent allergies, middle ear infections, colds, and sore throats, You'll learn about the nutritional interrelationships between eating, moods, and behavior in children, and get tips to guide children to eat healthier. We'll provide action steps for each stages of a child's growth—from infancy through adolescence—explaining ways to address the nutritional challenges and needs at each stage of development. • Nutrition for the Brain The nutritional world is exploding with information that is valuable for people with mood swings, depression, anxiety, addictions, mental focus and learning challenges, and sleep concerns. This discussion will highlight the use of vitamins, amino acids, herbs, and other nutrients that relate to hormonal swings, ADD and ADHD, the effects of stress, and how eating specific foods can make emotional and mental symptoms easier or harder to cope with. * Love Your Body: Where Health & Healing Meet What if our life purpose was to learn how to take care of our body ( code word) to be an example for others to support them to more easily and effectively do the same in their own way? What is healing? Healing is not simply an intellectual process. If that were so, very smart people would be great healers. We know this is not true. Healing is more than theory or philosophy. Let’s discuss healing in a context to create powerful loving experiences for ourselves that we will naturally share with others.
• Insomnia — How to Get a Great Night’s Sleep What interrupts sleep? What promotes deep restful rejuvenating sleep? Learn the top food, herbal, and natural remedies to develop better sleep in a context of positive behaviors that support the brain to develop healthy sleep habits. • How to Avoid the Struggles and Suffering of Weight Loss & Dieting Calorie counting is based on a model that has little to do with health. How to eat to burn weight off instead of focusing on restricting calories to starve the body to lose weight? How does balancing blood sugar play a role in trusting the body to find it’s natural set point? What role do hormones play in weight loss or gain? How can our relationship to our body and our relationship to food be pivotal key points for successfully maintaining weight loss beyond losing weight? You will learn about food, nutrition, herbs, lifestyle and mindset exercises to achieve your ideal weight. • From PMS to Menopause — Nutritional Influences on Hormones Learn about how to use food and specific nutrients to strengthen your endocrine system that makes hormones. What foods interfere with hormones that will encourage PMS, difficult menses, and cause menopause to be challenging physically, mentally and emotionally. Do you know how to make friends with your hormones? • The Difference Between Healing and Symptomatic Relief - What Difference It Makes to You Sometimes our pain and discomfort must be alleviated. Sometimes the therapies and actions we take have no influence on the patterns or cause of the disease or symptoms we are disturbed by. Learn some of the most important questions to ask you health care provider for you to be a powerful partner in your process to cope with symptomatic relief in a way that minimizes the probably that the untreated caused will just manifest in some other way. • Aging Gracefully Are your 40 going on 70 or 70 going on 40? The process of aging might be inevitable. The experience of maintaining dignity, clarity and physical energy is related to many factors. Learn about epigenetics –factors that influence your genes to manifest as well as the kinds of thoughts and believe that will encourage you to appreciate we humans have the capacity for “youthing” as we age. • Raising Healthy Kids: From Baby Colic to Childhood Ear Infections to Teenage Acne Babies, young kids, and adolescents all have different nutritional challenges. Let’s look at food, nutrition, and natural remedies that can make a huge difference to influence the health of children to avoid some of the most common symptoms kids develop because of poor nutrition. Let’s be creative to know an offer tasty healthy options. • Healthy Heart The heart is not just located in the center of your body; our heart creates the pulse beat, rhythm, and flow of blood that allows us to feel centered and grounded because all our organs are getting what they need. The heart as a muscle needs specific nutrients to do its best to squeeze blood out to get to the brain and tips of our toes. Do you know what foods and nutrients are good for your heart? The heart needs support, rest, and rejuvenation to allow it to optimally function. Let’s learn about these great benefits.
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