Session 1: Discover 5 Surefire Ways to Power Up Your Bones
Let’s get personal…I’m sharing a nutritionist’s perspective on lessons learned over the last decade. You will go home with recipes and tools for you to assess your bone-supportive nutrition and personalize your plan.
- Be strategic with a 2-pronged approach
- Make it an integrated plan
- Know your numbers
- Keep your eye on the prize… preventing a fracture
- When it comes to nutrition, bones don’t rely on one nutrient or food alone!
- You need a healthy gut to absorb nutrients
Session 2: The Calcium Conundrum
Conundrums surrounding dietary calcium, minerals and our bone health. Get the facts!
- Optimize your calcium intake and absorption.
- What are the best sources of calcium?
- Directing calcium into the bone and away from soft tissue/arteries.
- Beyond calcium; other key minerals.
Session 3: Let’s Solve the Protein Paradox
Optimal protein status improves bone health but how much is optimal? Discover how to create a delicate metabolic balance.
- Global eating patterns and bone health
- Sarcopenia and the relationship with protein intake, bone health and fracture risk.
- What are the best dietary sources?
- Protein requirement for your stage of life.
- The Better Protein Formula to optimize bone health.
Session 4: The Gut-Bone Connection
You are not what you eat, but what you absorb! The connection may seem surprising, but ultimately optimal bone health is dependent on a good healthy gut.
- Assessing your gut health – What’s normal?
- Get a better gut microbiome to improve bone health.
- What to add and what to remove: Key nutrients.
- Consider healing foods and favorite herbals to stimulate digestion and nourish the gut.
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