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SEMINAR SCHEDULE
9.00am -1.00pm - Bio-identical hormones - The effect of nutrition on hormone balance. - Dr Miguel Martinez
8.30 am Registration & coffee
9.00 am Introduction
9.10 am Lecture
10.15 am Coffee/tea break
10.30 am Lecture
12.30 pm  Q & A 
12.50 pm Conclusion
1.00 pm Seminar ends
2.00pm-6.00pm - Digestion & Absorption-Beyond Nutrition: A journey into the gut microcosm - Prof Giovanni Scapagnini
1.30 pm Registration & coffee
2.00 pm Introduction
2.10pm Lecture
3.15pm Coffee/tea break
3.30pm Lecture
5.30 pm Q&A
5.50pm Conclusion
6.00pm Seminar ends
Working Manuals will be provided for both sessions

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Bio-Identical Hormones - The Effect of Nutrition on Hormone Balance - Dr Miguel Martinez

Objectives

• To learn a practical method to balance endogenous production of insulin and glucagons.
• Understand how to avoid diet induced hyperinsulinaemia and hyperglycaemia and its effects.
• How to identify symptoms of unbalanced nutrition.
• Learn signs and symptoms of sex hormone deficiencies with bio identical hormones.
• Identify pros and cons of bio-identical and non bio-identical sex hormones.

Digestion & Absorption-Beyond Nutrition: A journey into the gut microcosm - Prof Giovanni Scapagnini
In recent years there has been a growing interest, supported by a large number of experimental and epidemiological studies outlining   the beneficial effects of some commonly used food derived products capable of preventing various age-related pathologic conditions, which range from cancer to neurodegenerative diseases.

Besides the importance of nutrients and active compounds contained in food, the workshop/seminar will focus on the relevance of the organs where digestion and absorption of nutrients occur. Because the food we consume creates the intestinal micro-environment   this in turn has a fundamental influence on the pathophysiology of many diseases.

The contents of the gut are an ‘inner’ world that is ‘outside’ the cellular body. Its surface is a frontier with an area 100 meters square and a thickness of one cell .Gut flora is an organ which contains more microbial cells than the cellular body has mammalian cells (100 trillion).In this context eukaryotes and prokaryotes have developed mutually beneficial relationships over a millennia of evolutionary adaptation. Similarly bacteria   in our gut relies   on our diet and the protected environment of our bodies just as our health depends on by- products of microbial metabolism. The normal intestinal microflora constitutes a huge chemical factory that alters our food and our gastrointestinal secretions. The benefit from their activity is multiplex and translates into

• increased energy for the gut epithelial cells
• a balanced absorption of salt and water
• nitrogen recycling
• the breakdown of complex lipids and cholesterol
• detoxification of waste compounds

The gut is a sensory organ. The mechanism by which the gut senses and responds to nutrients involves the ‘interplay’ of multiple complex pathways.

The gut is a neuro -endocrine organ. Every neurotransmitter found in the brain is also found here. The gut has a brain of its own, an intact and independent nervous system.

The gut is the largest organ of immune function in the body; 70% of our lymphocytes live here. In addition to regulating digestion and absorption the pathways stimulated by molecules in the gut lumen mediate gastric motility, food intake and satiety.

Finally we will explore how foods can be designed to modulate digestion and to promote health by changing the physical properties of digesta.

Join me on this fascinating journey  of discovery.
Professor Giovanni Scapagnini