Lecture 10. Basic principles of the ketogenic diet

1. Physiology and pathophysiology of the gastrointestinal tract. Hypoacidity. Symptoms. Causes. Constipation. Causes. Bile flow disorders. Hormones affecting digestion: gastrin, serotonin, cholecystokinin, histamine, motilin, dopamine, melatonin. Their role and functions.2. Sex hormones testosterone, progesterone, estrogens. Their effect on the gastrointestinal tract.3. Nutritional assessment. Biochemical tests.4. Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth syndrome. Types. Symptoms. Treatment.5. Diagnosis of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth syndrome.6. GERD. Causes. Diagnosis. Treatment.7. Laryngopharyngeal reflux. Symptoms. Treatment.8. Causes of poor fat digestion. Bile reflux. Treatment methods for bile stasis. Gallstone disease.9. Types of immune system dominance. Diet selection based on immune system dominance types.10. FODMAP diet, antihistamine diet.11. Microbiome correction on pathogenic diets.

1. Pregnenolone – the very first hormone in the hormone synthesis chain. Role in the body. Role in restoring adrenal function. Use of pregnenolone in autoimmune diseases, mental disorders, menopausal disorders, and dementia (research).2. Increasing pregnenolone naturally.3. Pregnenolone supplements.4. Contraindications and side effects.5. DHEA – the second hormone in the hormone synthesis chain. Role in the body. Role in restoring adrenal function.6. DHEA as the main androgenic prehormone. The role of DHEA and its metabolites in the development of antiviral and antiparasitic immunity.7. The role of DHEA in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases.8. Increasing DHEA levels naturally. DHEA supplements.9. Contraindications and side effects. Symptoms of DHEA excess.10. Cortisol metabolism. Functions of cortisol in the body.11. Causes of hypocortisolemia. Correction of elevated and reduced cortisol depending on the stage of adrenal fatigue.12. Neurotransmitters. Their role in the body. Anti-stress program (pharmacological and non-pharmacological).13. Clinical case analysis of a patient with panic attacks as a vivid example of adrenal fatigue.14. Progesterone and its role in the body. Hormone replacement therapy in the postmenopausal period. Synthetic and bioidentical hormones. Dangers of estrogen replacement therapy. Alternative methods of correcting menopausal disorders using prehormones and bioidentical transdermal hormones.15. Risks associated with hormone replacement therapy. Consideration of family history, genetics, and detoxification system function before starting hormone replacement therapy.16. Natural and synthetic progesterone. Side effects of natural progesterone.17. Use of progesterone to restore adrenal function. Routes of administration.18. Progesterone and osteoporosis. Progesterone or estrogen and cancer.19. Progesterone and men. Male hormonal imbalance. Progesterone and prostate health.20. Symptoms of progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone deficiency.21. Testosterone and its effect on the body.22. Melatonin and its effect on the body.

1. What is Adrenal Fatigue (AF)?2. Signs and symptoms of AF3. The main adrenal hormones. Their role and functions in the body. The main anti-stress hormone Cortisol, its main effects under stress conditions.4. Common causes of AF.5. Stress as the leading trigger of AF. Types of stress. How does stress affect the body? The stress response from a hormonal perspective.6. Stages of AF: alarm reaction, resistance reaction, adrenal exhaustion, failure.7. The attitude of conventional medicine to the problem of AF8. Diagnosis of AF. Laboratory tests. Serial salivary cortisol testing is the most objective assessment of adrenal function. Salivary cortisol: how to collect correctly and interpretation of results.9. Additional diagnostics of AF.10. Paradoxical reactions. Causes of paradoxical reactions in the final stages of AF.11. Clinical signs of early stages of AF. Clinical signs of late stages of AF.12. Women and adrenals. What is the ovarian-thyroid-adrenal axis. How do adrenal hormones affect thyroid function and how do sex hormones affect thyroid function and vice versa.13. AF recovery protocol. Non-pharmacological and pharmacological methods of correction.

The lecture and master class by Maria Emmerich took place on November 18, 2018. But you still have the opportunity to see how it went and to gain new and useful information from a leading world expert.

​In March 2019, at our invitation, Csaba Tóth, the head of the European clinic Paleomedicina, visited Moscow. Dr. Csaba Tóth has extensive years of experience in using the ketogenic diet for various neurological, somatic, and oncological diseases. The webinar contains a large number of clinical examples. The information is exclusive and may be of interest to many.​

During his webinar, Arkady Prokopov talks about the fundamentals of mitochondrial medicine, mitochondrial concepts of various diseases, and the principles and methods of mitochondrial therapy.