CPD VOD | Nourishing The Neurodivergent Brain

This course...

Is: As an online on-demand-video from a live course

is for: Nutritional therapy practitioners, nutritionists, dieticians, naturopaths, psychiatrists, medical doctors, mental health nurses, other health care providers and final year nutrition students interested in applying functional medicine approaches to health and well-being (i.e. exploring how nutrients, other foods and lifestyle factors influence the function of the body and how to apply findings in a person–centred manner that recognises individuals’ unique differences).

is led by: Lucinda Miller

spans: 5 hours recording time

provides: BANT CPD 5 hours, NNA CPD 5 hours

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This course helps to educate nutrition professionals and final year nutrition students on the intricacies of working with neurodivergent adults and children. This information will empower the listener to help support the plethora of comorbidities which can go alongside dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and autism. These include highly selective eating, emotional dysregulation and burnout, difficulty sleeping, gut issues such as reflux and constipation, hypermobility and chronic pain; as well as the interplay with a diet high in ultra-processed foods and chronic inflammation, infections and allergies.

The focus of this course is to explain the comorbidities that often go along with neurodiversity.
• How the right nutrition can play a role in supporting these comorbidities.
• How chronic inflammation, infections and allergies play a role.
• Key nutrients to provide support
• Defining the gut-brain axis in relation to neurodivergence

Neurodivergent folk often bring with them complexity over and above most other conditions in terms of their test results – you often will be challenged with a combination of gut dysbiosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, a high histamine state with high oxalates and high glutamate alongside, as well as multiple nutrient deficiencies.

So where do you start first?

Practical complexities may also be prominent be due to highly restrictive eating, a very strong view on what they will or will not be able to change and they can sometimes be disorganized and unable to stick to a health plan.

This course will start with explaining what neurodivergence is, how prevalent it is and the comorbidities that can often go alongside.

It will then dig deep into how nutrition can play a role, and learn about the influence of chronic inflammation, infections and allergies and then the key nutrients needed to support and how to optimize neurotransmitters created in the gut.

Examples of the questions it will answer include signs and symptoms of nutrient depletions, which lab tests to suggest, how to unpick a complex case.

Finally, it will bring in some case histories and happy outcomes from both neurodivergent children and adults.

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Create health plans and programs for your neurodivergent clients that are easy to action.
• Apply research findings into your work to create client compliance.
• Choose laboratory tests and supplements with greater confidence.
• Avoid potential pitfalls when it comes to highly selective eating.
• Be more confident in supporting your clients through interpreting complex results.
• Keep your client motivated and to continue working with you in the longer term.

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About the presenter:

Lucinda Miller, MGNI MRNI MH FMU AFMCP

Lucinda Miller is the clinical lead of NatureDoc, and she runs a team of UK-wide nutritional therapists specialising in family nutrition and neurodivergence. She has been practising as a naturopath for over 25 years, is qualified in Functional Medicine, and is the author of the bestselling cookbooks The Good Stuff and I Can’t Believe It’s Baby Food. Also, look out for Brain Brilliance, due to be published in late summer 2024. Lucinda has lectured several times for ION and CNM on the subjects of child development and neurodiversity. Lucinda has recently released an online course called Nutrition for Autism, which focuses on optimizing nutrition for autistic children, she also currently runs a course on nutrition for ADHD . She is the mum of three and lives in Wiltshire, UK. www.naturedoc.com

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This course originally took place on: 11th July 2024

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Upon purchasing a ticket you will be immediately granted access to the course materials and video.

To download the course materials, click the HANDOUTS button in the video player (situated between the VOLUME and QUESTIONS buttons).