HORMESIS AND HUMAN HEALTH

Hormesis is the beneficial effect of physical or chemical stress to a biological system. At the right level, such stress improves biological function and enhances physical health. Hormesis is also perhaps the most important and little understood way of improving health and wellbeing.
This session will examine how loading and cardiorespiratory exercise, heat and cold, and exposure to plant phytochemicals can all play a role in preventing and treating diseases.
Examples will be explored with respect to exercise, fasting, foods and supplements, sauna, and cold-water exposure that can be employed as effective preventive and therapeutic approaches to health and wellbeing.

Dr Adam Cunliffe has been researching and teaching in the field of nutrition and health for over 25 years. With a PhD in Clinical Nutrition from St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London Hospital Adam has designed and run Nutrition Degrees, Nutrition Masters programmes and PhDs in major London Universities. He has over 50 peer reviewed scientific publications across multiple aspects of nutrition and health. Alongside academia, Adam has shared expert opinion on BBC, Channel 4 and multiple national and international print and online media including Men’s Health, The Daily Mail and Daily Express (UK) and CNN, Time and GOOP for US and international audiences. Combining the latest science in the field of Human Nutrition with his long experience working with patients, Adam specializes in communicating accessible nutritional approaches to optimising health, wellbeing and performance.

The course will provide for OSTEOPATHIC PRACTICE STANDARDS CPD requirements in the following areas:

2 hours Learning with Others

OPS CPD Requirements
Learning include
Communication and patient partnership
Listening, respecting patient's concerns and preferences, dignity and modesty, effective communication, providing information, consent, patient partnership.
Knowledge, skills and performance
Having sufficient knowledge and skills, working within training and competence, keeping up to date, analysing and reflecting on information to enhance patient care.
Safety and quality in practice
Patient evaluation, management, safeguarding, wider role in enhancing patients' health and wellbeing.