Innovation Showcase
Chronic Pain Solutions: The Missing Link in Medicine
Innovation Showcase Daniel Twogood
The chronic pain epidemic has lead to the opioid crisis. As long as medication is the only answer to chronic pain, medication will get more powerful and more dangerous. This is not the solution. Most chronic pain is caused by specific substances in foods, food additives, supplements, and medication. When medical doctors begin the history and examination portion of treatment to determine the cause of symptoms, they never ask the patient what they eat. Conventional medicine has no answers for people who suffer with fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, migraines, chronic back pain and more, besides drugs. In this presentation doctors will learn how to conduct a thorough history, and they will learn how to determine what specific changes are necessary for the patient's recovery.
Eating the Rainbow: The Science of Colorful, Plant-based Food and Practical Strategies
Innovation Showcase Deanna Minich
Over the past decades, thousands of published studies have amassed supporting recommendations to consume fruits and vegetables for physiological and psychological health. Newer research has emerged to suggest that these plant-based foods contain a plethora of not only vitamins and minerals, but perhaps, most importantly, phytonutrients. These phytonutrients have known pleiotropic effects on cellular structure and function, ultimately resulting in the modulation of protein kinases and subsequent epigenetic modification in a manner that leads to improved outcomes. Even though eating fruits and vegetables is a well-known feature of a healthy dietary pattern, population intakes continue to be below federal recommendations. To encourage consumers to include fruits and vegetables into their diet, an “eat by color” approach is proposed in this presentation. Although each individual food may have numerous effects based on its constituents, the goal of this simplified approach was to identify general patterns of benefits based on the preponderance of scientific data and known mechanisms of food-based constituents. It is suggested that such a consumer-oriented categorization of these plant-based foods may lead to greater recognition of their importance in the daily diet throughout the lifespan. Other adjunctive strategies to heighten awareness of fruits and vegetables are discussed.
