IHN Graduates Making A Difference In Our Community!

Jacqueline Steinert is the founder of Jacqueline Steinert - Holistic Health, where she focuses on working with those experiencing disordered eating, more specifically families dealing with picky little eaters. She strives to educate her clients on how to navigate their circumstances and deal with the modern stressful environment, while providing them with on-on-one nutrition counselling and meal planning.

Laurence Annez is uses nutrition consulting, health coaching, life coaching, subconscious reprogramming, energetic clearing, and human design to support women dealing with PCOS. Through her company, Laurence Annez, she leads her clients out of survival mode and hormonal chaos, into the expansive version of themselves were they can thrive, and create a life they are in love with.

Timothy Marshall is the founder of The Holistic Guy, specializing in clients whose conditions have had conventional practitioners unable to find solutions. Tim offers one-on-one nutritional consulting, public speaking engagements for corporations, in-home and public cooking demonstrations, grocery store tours, catering, and personal chef experiences, all to guide and empower taking charge your own health.

See the inspiring work of our graduates in the field of holistic nutrition!

Kathrin Brunner Shares Material From Her Con Ed Course

Join us Tuesday, May 3 at 7:00 PM ET/4:00 pm PT for a 1 hour webinar, as Kathrin Brunner presents live from her kitchen—as you follow along in yours—how to ferment “Dilly Kraut” and take an in-depth look at the deeply therapeutic benefits of fermented foods. While fermentation has gained in popularity over the years, there are many misconceptions about how they impact our microbiomes and are used to improve health. Knowing which type of ferment, would benefit which type of condition, is essential to recommending them successfully in clinical practice. Moreover, store-bought commercial versions are often misleading and lack the health benefits of those that are traditionally made.

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Lisa Pitel-Killah Shares Material From Her Con Ed Course

Join us Tuesday, May 10 at 7:00 PM ET/4:00 pm PT for a 1 hour webinar, as Lisa Pitel-Killah presents a detailed analysis of calcium! Calcium regulates cell permeability, maintains pH balance, and plays a role in muscle/nerve contraction. Osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, inability to lose weight, and blood sugar dysregulation are just a few of the issues that may arise from calcium that has been deposited in the tissues. One way to identify this issue and support the body is with HTMA (Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis). Lisa will share and teach insights on a commonly seen pattern on HTMA that may lead to all of the listed issues, plus what you can do about it.

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Brett Hawes Shares Material From His Con Ed Course

Join us Monday, May 16 at 7:00 PM ET/4:00 pm PT for a 1 hour webinar, as Brett Hawes presents how to use functional lab testing and holistic nutrition to help your clients overcome gut infections. Recent advances in our understanding of the microbiome have led to innovative new testing methods to uncover acute and chronic infections as well as a variety of dysbiotic scenarios. This, combined with age-old food and supplement remedies, means practitioners now have the ability to resolve even the most stubborn and complex gut infections.

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Course Starts May 1, 2022 | Online | Learn More & Register
 
During her 1 hour webinar on Tuesday, April 26, Linda Bazinet takes us through the importance of blood pressure and how your body regulates it. Taken at almost every medical visit, you will look at the meaning of blood pressure measurements as well as risks associated with both high and low blood pressure. Blood pressure is so key to health that the body has multiple ways to regulate it. You will learn the importance of regulation, the roles of various hormones, mechanisms of action of blood pressure medications, and natural ways to lower blood pressure.



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Practitioner Level & Passionate Public Presentation

Join Silvana and Robert as they reveal the hidden secrets of why some people won’t heal even though they’re doing “everything right”.
 
Key Topics:
 
How, in some cases, healthy foods can actually harm the body
How to avoid acquiring food intolerances
• What causes "cell saturation"
• The gut/brain connection and effects on other body systems
• Why taking supplements can be effective for some, and ineffective for others
• Pinpointing causes of headaches
• Why women can’t conceive and why they miscarry
• That you can essentially become dehydrated although you drink plenty of water
• How to stimulate the Vagus nerve naturally

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Jonothon Mainland and Frank Silva provided surprising insight into how professional line supplements are developed, from concept to the completed formula, and their impact on client outcomes.
 
Key Topics:
 
• The process of selecting ingredients for Natural Health Product development
• The process of developing capsule, liquid and powder based products
• How to navigate regulatory aspects of Natural Health Product development
• Full transparency and common questions above product development that are rarely answered
• Insight into valuable nutraceutical ingredients and their clinical application
• Clinical applications and how to understand the subtle difference in nutrient therapies to achieve better patient outcomes and faster results
Paul Demeda explained important nutrition issues and concepts. He reviewed relevant and useable information, including nutrient and dosing protocols, from lectures by leading orthomolecular experts from around the world with decades of clinical practice.
 
Key Topics:
 
• The roles of niacin and NAD, in detoxification, autoimmune and mitochondrial disorders
• Orthomolecular rationale and protocols for addressing chronic stress conditions
• Orthomolecular strategies for addressing alcohol addiction
• Sources of mold, fungi, and mycotoxins, and methods for addressing exposure symptoms
• The role of high-dose vitamin C in viral infections, oxidative stress, and the cytokine storm
• Mast cell instability in disease, and how to address it 
Watch IHN This Week For A Special Convocation Edition May 16

Give us a little time to put together a meaningful look at IHN's April 2022 convocation ceremony. There is so much that we want to share with you. We won't be able to recreate the event fully, of course, but we want to take the time to give potential students and our community an idea of how important this event is to usand the graduating students.

Convocations have always been an emotional and celebratory occasion lauding the excellence and transformation of each graduate. Students emerge from IHN, ready to move in the direction of their passion; augment their knowledge base; build out their niche, and become leaders in the field of holistic nutrition. IHN's alumni and industry peers welcome our newest colleagues.
11 Course Start Dates LeftGet A Jump Start Before Fall Semester
 
We are halfway through the spring semester with only a few more opportunities to join us before the fall. We have both online Eastern and Pacific courses beginning in May and June! Whether you want to register for one class at a time or you are eager to start the September 2022 semester early, we have a variety of courses you can enroll in for both the daytime and evening schedule. Starting the program early will give you more flexibility in the following semesters to take other courses or begin your co-op placement. Please see below for upcoming course offerings. 
 
In-class courses (currently online) for Ontario campuses:

• May 31, Jun 22 | Advanced Nutrition Research (2 start dates)
 
In-class courses (currently hybrid) for Vancouver campuses:
 
• May 19 | Psychology of Disease
• Jun 16 | Herbal Medicine
• Jun 23 | Ayurveda
• Jun 27 | Nutritional Research

Online program courses for Eastern Time Zone:
 
• Apr 21, May 4, May 16, Jun 13 | Comparative Diets (4 start dates)

Online program courses for Pacific Time Zone:
 
• May 19 | Psychology of Disease
 
Learn More About Our In-class And Online Program
 
In-Class Program:
 
Toronto—Jaimattie at [email protected] / 1.416.386.0940
Mississauga—Colleen at [email protected] / 1.905.615.9090
Vancouver—Jenn-Marie at [email protected] / 1.604.558.4000
 
On-Line Program:
 
Online ET—Jaimattie at [email protected] / 1.416.386.0940
Online PT—Jenn-Marie at [email protected] / 1.604.558.4000
With over 500 metabolic functions, and affecting every organ and system through our body, our liver is the most important organ for maintaining health and reversing disease. Learn the warning signs that your liver is not performing well before anything is seen in any medical testing. Become empowered with knowledge about simple and effective ways to improve liver function with food and nutrition, supplementation and life style, how to improve your overall health, and prevent most degenerative diseases.



 Recordings will be made available for those unable to attend in global time zones!
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Baljinder’s course will provide you an in-depth approach on how to clinically evaluate nutraceuticals on the market! With so many supplement companies, similar looking products, what should be used when will be thoroughly covered. Many product samples will be provided to each student in this course who will be developing supplement protocols in their clinical practices.

Starts May 11, 2022 | Online | Learn More & Register
This course is designed for Nutritional Practitioners, other allied healthcare professionals who work with clients with persistent pain, and individuals looking to increase their knowledge base of complex pain. The role of supplements and specific therapeutic diets in its treatment will be thoroughly explored. The assessment and interviewing of different types of chronic pain.
 
Starts May 28, 2022 | Online | Learn More & Register
It couldn’t be better timing to retool and relaunch IHN’s collaboration with Brett Hawes and his Digestive Health Practitioner Masterclass. All at once, more and more people are seeing the true power of natural health solutions for chronic and acute conditions. IHN invites you to join your colleagues looking into a key fundamental control centre of well-being—the gut—from a seasoned practitioner’s body of knowledge.

Starts June 20, 2022 | Online | Learn More & Register
With spring weather also comes opportunities to get ready for garden season! A growing trend, particularly for urban communities, is container gardening. In an April 26 article (4 minute read), Heather Bien provides recommendations for maximizing your garden (and the best flowers, vegetables, and herbs to grow) while also saving space. Container gardening may be your spring project. Gardener and author Charlotte Ekker shares that “[Even] though I have room for a traditional garden, I have been growing in containers on my home deck for decades! The IHN Community IHN Alumni know that contributing to sustainable agriculture is central to a healthy ecosystem for all.

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Loaded with vitamins A and beta-carotene, this root vegetable is the perfect health food. Carrots are made up of 10% carbohydrate, consisting of starch, fiber, and simple sugars. They are low in fat and protein, but are a good source of several B vitamins, plus vitamin K and potassium to support bone health. They promote heart and eye health, digestion, skin health, and the immune system. Try this delicious High Protein-Low Carb Carrot Cake Loaf by IHN graduate Kali Pappas.

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