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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

• rgans 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

• f 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

• ptions.
• 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.

• Junk Food of the Mind: Combating Negativity

Everyone has positive and negative thoughts. Everyone. Let’s learn about some of the valuable tools and techniques to support us to indulge less in negative thinking. We need more than just positive simple affirmations. How do we focus the mind to practice increasing intentionally making positive thinking stick and anchor more in our brain? Let’s learn how to minimize and make smaller the kind of worries and fears that can take over and have a life of their own in the back ground of our life that can undermine and sabotage us blindly.

• Immune System – How to Prevent Allergies, Migraines, Arthritis, Colitis

& More

The Immune system is like a shield that either protects us or like a leaky filter lets too much in and

• ut and is not providing the resistance our body deserves. Let’s learn about food, nutrients, herbs

and organs that are integral to offering us confidence and competence that our immune system is doing an amazing job protecting us. In this new Covid universe, can you think of something more important than you knowing specifically what will undermine or power up your immune system?

• Making Food your Best Medicine

Solid food, water, air, and thoughts/feelings are different kinds of food that nourish us in different

• ways. Some might believe our health or disease is fated because of genes and our DNA. Epigenetics

dispels that thinking. Looking at cultures from around the world where many varied foods are eaten, there are gems of wisdom looking at “blue zones” of people who commonly live into their 90s and well beyond 100 years old. What patterns of eating can we learn that will increase our probability of being radiantly healthy in our 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s?

• Healing is a Journey Not Just a Destination

How is health distinct from healing? There are important landmarks in our life that we interpret as an important experience in our growing into the best version of how we want to show up in the

• world. Let’s explore and learn about trust, forgiveness, compassion, communication, cooperation, and

connection as tools that encourage and inspire us on our journey of healing.

• Escaping “Should” and Embracing “Want and Needs”

What if nourishing your self and nurturing your self was like brushing your teeth? Can you imagine if you lived from values that you embodied in a way were not associated with shame or guilt? Self care and developing healthy habits can inspire your capacity to be create and disciplined. How can we develop being grounded in thinking and action that comes from “of course” instead of “should.” This leaves us feeling freer to make choices and feel energized vs driving our self to avoid feeling bad.

• Listening to the Wisdom of the Body

So often actions for our body with medications, supplements, surgery, and countless procedures is because we are interpreting a symptom as wrong, bad, or uncomfortable. What is on your list to get rid of as soon as possible because it is a mistake your body is presenting this you?. What if we were able to observe body sensations with discrimination and an attitude of “what is the blessing in disguse here?” We might take the exact same actions but because of a totally different context, our body’s response and the results might be totally different from fixing what’s wrong.

• Herbal Home Remedies

Our kitchen cabinet is filled with Nature’s secrets of the healing properties of plants and herbs. Did you know cinnamon is great for food poisoning or garlic has antibiotic benefits? Let’s explore knowing the medicinal value of spices and herbs in ways that are fun as well as tasty.

• Team Building: Vision, Purpose and Goals in the Workplace

The dynamics of a group are different than a team. Having agreement is different than alignment. Communicating “team” while individuals do their specific jobs is an art and skill. Creating and leading a team includes using language that elicits interconnections that is more than intellectually have clear mission statements and goals.

• Encouraging the Immune System in the Face of Cancer, Chronic Fatigue and

Depression

Our Immune system is a complicated network that is intimately connected with the nervous system. In this Covid universe, we need simple easy to understand action steps to understand what can influence malignant cells growing out of control and challenging chronic viruses like Epstein Barr that can cause so much

• fatigue. In addition, let’s explore how when we are chronically depressed our immune systems get

undermined, and when our immune systems do not get the specific nutrients for optimal function, our brain and neurotransmitters can get unbalanced causing depression, hopelessness, and anxiety.

• Natural Remedies for Anxiety and Depression

Food, allergies, nutrients for the brain like essential fatty acids and amino acids can have critically important influences on how we process feelings. We have options to learn besides anti depressants to treat mood disorders.

• Effective Communication & Healing

Do you ever wonder it is amazing anything gets done given the way most people communicate? Most of us stumble and awkwardly do our best. Effective communicating includes way more than speaking clearly. Empathy is both a skill and an art and is directly related to having access to our capacity for healing.

• Transformation & Healing

The power of transformation is totally different than appreciating everything changes. Nothing stays the same for ever. Understanding transformation is the booby prize. Appreciating the power of context, and how our mind can use the power of attraction and the power of allowance for optimal health and healing can be an exhilarating and deeply loving process. Being curious and open to possibilities beyond what we think is reasonable are keys to transformation.

• Better Sex through Healthy Eating and Breathing

Eat 6 deliciously ripe mangos and call me in the morning. Just kidding, Could life be that simple? Let’s distinguish good and great sex from good and great sensual love- making. What foods and nutrients affect hormones, circulation, or our libido? How does breathing consciously make any difference to our pleasure and sense of connection?

• Healthy Skin

What a miracle that we have skin to cover our organs and protect us from temperature exposure, toxins, and

• ur fluids dripping on the floor all the time? Taking care of our skin in this time of toxic chemicals, air

pollution, beauty products filled with carcinogens, and sun exposure takes awareness and self care choices. What difference does it make if our skin looks fabulous? Ask anyone who is 70 and looks 60 or someone who is 60 and looks 50. Our youthful radiant skin care can support our confidence, our creativity, and our sense of adventure.

• Healthy Digestion

“If in doubt, clean it out.” We now have a fancy word for the inside of our entire digestive tract:

• MICROBIOME. Natural practitioners have been preaching ingestion, digestion, and absorption are critical

components to combat disease or promote health for hundreds of years in different cultures. Let’s dive into the world of digestion and how to optimize health. Do you know we have more bacterial cells in our bowel than human cells in our entire body? Let’s talk about what that means.

• Musculoskeletal Flexibility -Healthy Joints

The ability to be flexible is different than having strength. Flexible joints allow a flow of energy through

• ur muscles, tendons and ligament into our body that has incredible impact for our brain.

Some people want to ski, hike, bike, swim, play tennis, pickle ball, or just walk without stiffness and discomfort as we age. Let’s explore how to optimize those possibilities.

• Focus & Memory - What the Brain needs as we get older

Our belief that as we get older, we get sicker or our brain slowly deteriorates is based on normal thinking. Let’s create a new model for us all to know how the brain works. Like everything in our body, our brain needs food and specific nutrients. What foods? What nutrients? What parts of the brain control focus and memory and how can we improve those functions as we age? Rather than waiting to treat dementia and Alzheimer’s, let’s be proactive to give our brain what it needs to work.

• Thyroid Myths

This little gland in the notch of our neck plays such an important role in health. Energy, digestion, skin tone, weight distribution, mood stability, hair texture strength are a few of the results of a healthy thyroid. Blood tests are often inconclusive and insufficient to treat a sub clinical hypo-thyroid. Thyroid medication is often insufficient with out knowing about specific nutrients and foods to complement hormones the thyroid may not be making. Balancing the thyroid can be invaluable for health.

• Nutrition & Sports Medicine: Preventing & Treating Injuries

Keeping our body flexible, strong with a healthy heart includes knowing a few points about food and nutrients have properties help muscles, tendons and ligaments. Prevention tips to prevent injuries can as useful as knowing what the body needs more of when we are injured.

• Secretes to meet Autoimmune Challenges

Why would our body reject and interpret something natural to itself as foreign? How could we interpret auto immune challenges like Diabetes type I, Lupus, RA, Hashimoto’s, Celiac, MS, IBD, and other syndromes to be healthier and more powerful in the face of mysterious incompatibility? There are answers if we are will to think outside normal accepted concepts.

• Meditations & Visualizations for Healing

Our left brain thinks logically, reasonably, and understand and explains. Our right brain imagines, creates, and is our portal for healing. How does disconnecting from the left brain allow the right brain to manifest what it is picturing. If healing were dependent on logic, very smart geniuses would be extraordinary

• healers. We know this is not true. For decades science has been exploring the results of meditation
• techniques. Results are positively exploding past rational myths. Creativity, music, art, beauty, and silence

can all be allies on a healing journey.

• Speech Acts- Communicating for Healing

I ask, I decline, I accept, I assert, I promise are examples of “performative” words. If you wish to connect to your self and others so that action is clear and less confusing, knowing how to include speech acts can add value to effective eliciting healing. There is huge universe inside the “power of commitment.”

• Non-Violent Communication Practices for Healing

Marshall Rosenberg created a system of speaking and listening that has enormous value for healing. Distinguishing between needs and wants can be useful to avoid breakdowns or at a minimum how to deal with them with compassion and mutual respect.

• How to Inspire Intention, Trust, Forgiveness & Compassion for Healing

The Buddha got enlightened and experienced unity of all dualities when a bird shat on his head. Most

• f us will not be so lucky. For most of us, healing can be accessed by intentionally tapping into

frequencies of qualities that unify our own sense of separateness that are the keys to pathways for

• healing. Deepening our appreciation and experience of trust, forgiveness, and compassion are

examples of not just waiting for time which is outside of us to heal us.