Nutritional and Integrative Treatments for Children & Adults
World experts will present to parents, patients, carers, educators and health professionals on Nutritional & Environmental Medicine, Nutrient Therapy, Bio Individual Diets, Nutritional Psychiatry, Brain Plasticity, Natural and Neuro Therapies.
Mindd Foundation proudly invites you to the 9th Mindd International Forum, a 3 day conference and expo designed to educate patients and train practitioners in solutions for the prevention and treatment of disease.
Whether you are a parent managing your child's chronic condition or an adult wanting to prevent or treat arthritis, dementia, diabetes or heart disease, the Mindd Forum offers solutions for you.
Worldwide families are facing an epidemic in interrelated and environmentally driven metabolic, immunologic, neurologic, digestive and developmental conditions that often affect the mind (i.e. MINDD conditions).
Modern diseases are at an all-time high and are affecting our children in large numbers. "Maternal transfer" is a key factor with many of the effected children inheriting more than just genes from their mothers including infections, toxins, nutritional deficiencies, microbiome and mitochondrial abnormalities, immune dysregulation and physical and emotional trauma.
In our children, malnutrition and toxins especially impact on developing brains and digestive tracts which have a very strong impact on one another. Recent studies indicate that the type and levels of gut microbes directly impact on brain development as well as on immunity. (Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease; Inna Sekirov, Shannon L. Russell, L. Caetano M. Antunes, and B. Brett Finlay).
A large body of research now points to the microbiome playing a huge role in illness and disease. Diet, toxins, infections and lifestyle impact on the 70 trillion cells in the human body as well as the 700 trillion cells that make up the "good bugs" in our digestive tract. The body's universal response to these many stressors is inflammation and oxidative stress (rusting of the cells). Inflammation is linked to the epidemic in chronic illness (inflammation of the lungs in asthma; skin in eczema; brain in anxiety, depression, autism and ADHD; joints in arthritis; arteries in heart disease.
Nutritional healthcare can treat and reverse chronic illness by supporting the body's innate ability to heal, grow, prevent and fight disease. The focus is on cellular health (toxins out and nutrients in).
For the past 10 years, Mindd Foundation has trained Australian practitioners in evidence-based Nutritional & Environmental Medicine (NEM) with a focus on how diet, environment and lifestyle impact on human health, even turning genes on and off (epigenetics)
These Integrative Healthcare specialists understand how nutrition, toxins and infections impact on the whole body (especially the microbiome) which in turn impacts on the brain and mental health (mood, behaviour, memory, sleep, cognitive function). At present this holistic approach is rarely taught to General Practitioners and Paediatricians in Western Medical Schools so there is a great need for post-graduate training as well as public education.
Once NEM helps balance biochemistry, the body is then better able to respond to a range of allied therapies including natural, neurological and behavioural therapies.
Best outcomes result from teams of well-trained professionals and educated patients who work together to select, sequence and integrate treatments that treat the whole individual with a focus on addressing core causes versus symptoms. This also saves time and money for families seeking answers as well as for Government and the wider community.
Acupuncture, Chiropractic, Herbal Medicine, Holistic Dentistry, Homeopathy, Kinesiology, Osteopathy
Behavioural Optometry, Functional Neurology, Movement Therapy, Neuro Feedback, Occupational Therapy, Sensory Integration, Sound Therapy
ABA, RDI, Social Skills Training, Sonrise
autism, ADHD, allergies, anxiety, anorexia, Asperger's, asthma, autism, bi-polar, chronic fatigue, depression, diabetes, dyslexia, dyspraxia, food sensitivities, infections, learning & language delay, mood, sleep disorders, obesity, OCD, ODD, schizophrenia, sensory processing disorder, auditory & visual processing disorder, metabolic, immune and digestive disorders and more.