Creating Hormone Balance using a Root-cause Approach during the Menstruating, Perimenopause, and Menopausal Years of Life
By: National University of Health Sciences

Course Description

At every stage of womanhood, there is an important dance taking place that leads to healthy hormone balance, optimizing overall health. Coming through of the recent pandemic era, many women found that they were facing increased demands that required skillful juggling for family-work-home-health needs. When stress levels surge, the overwhelm and pressure of life can directly impact our ability to cultivate resilience and ultimate impact the sex steroid hormone cascade.

Ever since 2020, the lens that clinicians view vitality and optimal hormone balance through has changed. The impact of post-viral fatigue on women’s health, along with the increasing numbers of those suffering from undetected long-haul syndrome, creates a new level of awareness we are required to hold when assessing our patients. Understanding the underlying pathophysiology of post-viral syndromes and it’s sequela allow for us to apply root-cause strategies to a return of wellness and vitality.

In this session, Dr. Kristi will take you through the Functional Medicine and Clinical Nutrition approach to supporting women in their menstruation and fertility years, their transitions of perimenopause, and areas of focus that rise to the top in managing Menopause. She will guide you through a robust discussion of how to address post-viral fatigue syndrome and mold biotoxin exposure, which is increasing in prevalence today for many patients struggling to regain energy and optimal function in this post-pandemic era of medicine. The overlap of hormone imbalance with post-viral triggered auto-immunity responses creates a new clinical picture explored in this workshop.

Women who are in their menstruating years may struggle with neuro-endocrine challenges, premenstrual health symptoms, stress resilience, and mood disruptions that go back to nutrition imbalances, food triggers, HPATG dysfunctions, estrogen metabolism concerns, and lack of impactful self-care. Dr. Kristi will guide you through clinical solutions and nutraceutical options to address the underlying patterns challenging health and wellness.

The era that ushers in hormone variability and eventual sex steroid hormone declines will bring with it an entirely different list of considerations and health risks. Dr. Kristi will shine the light on the most common root-cause challenges women face in the perimenopausal and post-menopausal years, focusing on how to bring nutrition, targeted nutraceuticals, and lifestyle medicine strategies into an impactful treatment plan.

Mold-related illnesses are increasingly recognized as significant contributors to chronic health issues, inflammation, hyper-responsive allergenicity, and autonomic dysregulation. Identifying mold exposure and effectively managing its impact on health require a multifaceted approach integrating various disciplines of medicine. Many of these symptoms can be confused with hormone struggles, it is important to recognize when environmental exposures and biotoxin illness may be masquerading as or contributing to hormone imbalances.


Enhance Vitality through the Gut-Brain-Immune-Neuroendocrine Connection

Ideal Microbiome Health and Reducing Food Triggers that Induce Inflammation

Support Immune Resilience and Improve the HPATG-G axis

Enhance Detoxification and Guide Healthy Estrogen Metabolism

Review when not to drive Estrogen Metabolism and Hormone Detoxification Pathways

Support Safe Hormone Replacement in Peri and Post-menopause

Understand the clinical manifestations of mold toxicity and mycotoxin exposure in fatigue

Learn tools for identifying mold exposure and a toxic home/work environment

Explore the connection between the Vagal Nerve Communication, Mold, and Immunity

Gain confidence in managing complex cases of post-viral fatigue and biotoxin illness

Implement integrative treatment protocols for detoxification and recovery

Develop personalized treatment plans integrating multiple modalities

Course Details

  • Creating Hormone Balance using a Root-cause Approach during the Menstruating, Perimenopause, and Menopausal Years of Life
  • By:    National University of Health Sciences
  • Instructor:    Kristi Morlan-Hughes, ND, IFMCP, FMCHC
  • Total CE Hours:    6.0
  • Course Format:     Live In Person Seminar
  • Course Start:    01/18/2025   08:00am
  • Course End:    01/18/2025   03:00pm
  • Time Zone:    Central
  • Location State:    Illinois
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  • Course Categories:     DC Continuing Education
  • Course Subjects | CE HOURS:
    • Differential/Physical Diagnosis  -3.0 CE Hours
    • Evidence-Based Outcomes  -3.0 CE Hours
  •    Course Outline