Managing Acid Reflux and Restoring Gut Health: An Integrative Approach for Clinicians
An Integrative Approach for Clinicians
Calling all Clinicians!
Join me, Tieraona Low Dog, MD, for a One-Day Virtual Conference on Integrative Approaches to Managing Acid Reflux
Date: Saturday, July 17, 2021
Did you know more than 60 million Americans experience heartburn weekly and another 15 million experience it daily? Add the 30 million living with chronic gas, bloating, and constipation, and it is clear many people struggle with a dysfunctional gastrointestinal tract. As a physician, I am increasingly concerned by the growing number of patients reporting heartburn/GERD, unnecessarily taking potent acid-suppressing medications (PPIs), often for years, totally unaware of the potentially damaging effects.
In some cases, suppressing acid with proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) is appropriate, even long-term. However, studies show a startling 40–63% are prescribed inappropriately. And because acid-suppressive therapies are also available over the counter, many people take them for extended periods without monitoring. Unfortunately, PPIs are not benign. Long-term acid suppression can lead to serious health problems. The good news is that 75% of people with acid reflux have mild-to-moderate symptoms that are entirely amenable to lifestyle and natural approaches.
In this one-day virtual conference, I’ll update clinicians on potential adverse effects associated with PPI use—from rebound acid hypersecretion, dysbiosis, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), gastrointestinal infections, and food allergies to micronutrient deficiencies, fractures, cognitive impairment, kidney damage, and possibly gastric cancer. Clinicians will learn the most current thinking on the optimal dietary intervention for acid reflux, how stress and sleep disruption impact acid reflux, and the role of gastrointestinal melatonin.
We will also examine botanical therapies and the science supporting their history of preventing acid reflux, healing the esophagus and gastric mucosa, and promoting coordinated digestive function. Learn which probiotics and synbiotics to recommend, plus how and when to use digestive enzymes or implement a trial ofbetaine HCl. I will provide detailed protocols for tapering patients off PPIs, treating acid reflux naturally,and managing patients who must stay on long-term acid suppressing medications.
Course Curriculum
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StartWelcome Note
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PreviewSchedule & Brochure
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StartWelcome & Check-in (recording from the Zoom meeting) (13:45)
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StartInstructional Presentation Part One (Pre-Recorded)
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StartQ&A #1 with Dr. Low Dog (recorded Zoom session) (44:27)
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StartInstructional Presentation Part Two (Pre-Recorded)
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StartQ & A #2 + Closing (recorded Zoom session) (48:24)
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StartDownloadable Slides & Handouts for Dr. Low Dog's Presentations:
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StartAdditional Resources—PROTOCOLS
Your Instructor
A Note from Tieraona
I am a physician who originally trained as an herbalist, midwife, massage therapist, and martial artist. I have been exposed to and deeply influenced by the wisdom of the grandmothers, midwives, and indigenous peoples of these lands. I have learned to gather, prepare and use the healing plants, ease the body’s pain with massage, help women bring their babies into the world, and tend to the sick. I have been at the bedside as life enters this world, and also as it leaves. I’ve sat quietly during ceremonies, taking in their mystery and wonder, witnessing the power of prayer and belief. I’ve watched as healers called upon the ancestors for strength and direction, assisted surgeons as they removed bullets and tumors, and transplanted organs, witnessed people near death in the intensive care unit walk out well a short time later, and just about everything in between.
All of these experiences, from the profoundly spiritual to the most medically advanced, have shaped my approach toward health and healing, and eventually led me to the field of integrative medicine—a discipline that melds effective natural healing methods, lifestyle, and medically proven treatments. It allows clinicians a broader way to think about the restoration of health and the prevention and management of disease.
For 15 years as Fellowship Director for the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine and the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine, I helped oversee the training of more than one thousand doctors and nurses in this common sense approach to health, healing and wholeness as Now I want to share my experience and knowledge with you, so that you feel comfortable with the “how, what, when and why” of using natural therapies.
If you want a deep dive into the world of natural and integrative medicine, I invite you to join me at Medicine Lodge Ranch.
For more information about me, see: www.DrLowDog.com/about.html