Digital Seminar

A Functional Medicine Approach to PCOS

Name: A Functional Medicine Approach to PCOS
SKU: POS078611

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Our current treatment to PCOS is very limited leaving many women left dealing with infertility, risk of cardiovascular disease and progression into diabetes mellitus type 2. Making it more difficult, is the varying PCOS phenotypes with different hormonal and metabolic needs. Most clinicians are not adequately trained to assess the underlying causes of PCOS, a complex and chronic disease. You will delve into the explosion of new information about the gastrointestinal microbiome and the link to specific chronic complex metabolic diseases, such as PCOS. Learn how you can implement strategies such as nutrition, diet, and exercise both treat and prevent PCOS in your patients.

Here's What You'll Learn

Why Functional Medicine?

Overview of PCOS

Statistics and Prevalence
Symptoms
Work Up
Phenotypes – NIH

The Gut – Microbiome

Dysbiosis and metabolic syndrome
What is Akkermansia muciniphila?
Progression of Disease
Inflammation

Food, Nutrition and Supplements

N-acetyl cysteine (NAC)
Myoinositol
Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG)
Food as Medicine

Everything You're Getting

1 hour of video content
Up to 1.0 CE credits
Certificate of completion

Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Deidre Arms, MSN, APRN, CNP

Deidre Arms, MSN, APRN, CNP, is a dedicated functional medicine nurse practitioner with a passion for holistic health and wellness. As co-founder of Desire Wellness Group, Deidre envisions a healthcare model that goes beyond traditional approaches, focusing on proactive and preventive measures. Deidre sees patients who want to deeply explore causes of imbalanced female hormones, menopausal symptoms, poor sleep, chronic fatigue, obesity, autoimmune disorders and so much more through personalized tools, individualized testing, education and lifestyle modification. Her goal is to empower individuals to take control of their health and achieve optimal well-being.

Outside of her professional pursuits, Deidre works with Ohio AANP as a chapter lead and educates graduate students as an adjunct faculty member at Otterbein University.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Deidre Arms is the founder of Aspire Wellness Integrative Health, LLC., and has employment relationships with Otterbein University, and Comp Health. She receives a speaking honorarium from Mayne Pharmacy. Deidre Arms was a consultant for Guardant Shield and previously received a speaking honorarium from Astellas. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Deidre Arms has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Media Type:: Digital Seminar
Product Code:: POS078611
Duration:: 1 hour
Copyright:: Jun 28, 2023
Format:: Audio and Video

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography. A small portion of the material for this CE activity was developed with limited assistance from generative AI. All AI-generated information was reviewed for accuracy by the instructor, an independent content reviewer, or PESI staff. Evergreen Certifications is owned by PESI, Inc. Counselors please note: This activity is not offered for NBCC CE hours.

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