Presenter Name: Laura Lagano, MS, RND, CDN
Credit Available: CE/CME Credits(s): Provides 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM
Presented Date: 10/25/2021
Review Date: 10/25/2021
Expiration Date: 10/25/2023
Overview:
Course curriculum consists of a pre-recorded virtual learning course online that guides providers on evidence-based and peer reviewed education. This presentation will explore nutrition and the importance of focusing on this modality in all healthcare practices in nourishing the Endocannabinoid System (ECS) with food, nutrition & other lifestyle habits. Course reviews the basic history of cannabis, designation between cannabis vs hemp, the components that make up cannabis and the basis of cell biology and cellular health. Without either, there is no life. Discussion covering cannabis researcher and neurologist Ethan Russo, who discovered that we all have a clinical endocannabinoid tone, reflected by our levels of endocannabinoids and the relative abundance and function of our endocannabinoid receptors.
Because the ECS interacts with every other system of the body with the ultimate goal of balance and homeostasis, it impacts overall health. To keep many of these systems operating at optimal states, various lifestyle habits are often modified or added. Essentially, you are also changing the functioning of the ECS when you change lifestyle habits. This presentation will provide an overview of the habits that can impact the ECS and, ultimately, health status. Course taught by one of the pioneering cannabis clinical dieticians.
Learning Objectives:
- Learners will explore nutrition and the vital importance in nourishing the ECS with food, nutrition and lifestyle habits
- Ability to discuss the history of cannabis and the basis of cell biology and cellular health
- Discovery and understanding that without cellular health, there is no wellness- life
- Ability to provide examples of cannabis research and that humans have a clinical endocannabinoid tone, each unique to each individual that varies quite differently from one another
- Understand that the ECS interacts with every other system of the body with the goal of homeostasis- balance
- Recognize and identify that when various lifestyle habits are modified or added that it affects optimal states of wellness- health
