PART 1: STOOL ASSESSMENT – WORKING WITH THE BRISTOL STOOL SCALE
- Defecation: Such a complicated business!
- Stool protocols & defecation cycles
- Assessment of stool​

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PART 2: STOOL EXAMINATIONS
- Basics of stool examinations
- Selection of evidence-based diagnostic tools

- Pre-analytics & evaluation of various parameters

- Among other things, calprotectin, lactoferrin, iFOBT or M2-PK test, pancreatic elastase
- Complementary medicine method – a (brief) classification

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Held by stool expert Dipl. oec. troph. Christiane Schäfer

• Refresher: Physiology and pathophysiology of the digestive tract • Update: Intestinal diseases/disorders (irritable bowel syndrome, chronic inflammatory bowel disease) • Scientific basis for nutritional therapy (including relevant guidelines) • Symptom-oriented nutritional recommendations • Case studies

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Held by Dr. Maike Groeneveld, expert in Nutrition for Gut Health & Microbiota

● Types of fasting ● Differentiation between periodic fasting and intermittent fasting ● Basics (including fasting metabolism) ● Possible uses and mechanisms of action ● Studies on intermittent fasting ● Intermittent fasting and the microbiome ● Intermittent fasting in nutritional counseling ● Case studies ● Group work

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Held by Dipl. oec. troph. Alexandra Prüß

- Factors influencing depression
- Role of iron deficiency

- Iron as a cofactor for the biosynthesis of catecholamines, serotonin and melatonin

- Iron reference values

- Path of absorption of phytoferritin into intestinal cells

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Held by Professor Dr. Klaus Günther, Food Scientist and Biochemist, University of Bonn, Germany

- Overview of eating disorders
- Recognizing hidden eating disorders in counseling settings
- Intricacies of patients with eating disorders
- Approache and attitude of the nutrition counselor

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Held by Anja Schneider, staatl. gepr. Diätassistentin, expert in Eating Disorders

- Interactions between microbiota and health
- Influence of the microbiota on the development of intestinal diseases
- Use of probiotics in prevention and therapy
- Nutritional recommendations for a healthy microbiota
- Consulting concepts
- Case studies from practice

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Held by Dr. Maike Groeneveld, expert in Nutrition for Gut Health & Microbiota

- Understanding Food Cravings

- How to prevent and control food cravings long-term

- How to curb food cravings under stress

- Emergency strategies for food cravings

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Held by Jutta Kamensky, Ecotrophologist and expert in Nutrition Psychology

Quality management • Application of process models in practice • Monitoring and evaluation of nutritional therapy services • Outcome management in nutritional advice and therapy • Examination of one's own profession and understanding of roles • Reflected practice in the context of quality management • Interactive Workshop

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Held by Prof. Sandra Jent & Prof. Adrian Rufener

Attendance at the ESPEN Congress on Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. Main fields of interest:

- Intestinal Failure

- lleus & bowel obstruction

- Enteral Nutrition

Summary and discussion of the current guideline “Nutritional recommendations for individuals with type 2 diabetes" held by Alexandra Kunze, Ecotrophologist & Diabetes Counselor DDG

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Goals of special nutritional therapy • Importance and practice of weight management • Interaction of diet and physical activity • Discussion of nutrient relationships and diet patterns • Macronutrients and fiber quality • Individual food groups: therapeutic significance • Glycemic load: carbohydrates in nutritional practice • Insulin treatment for type 2 diabetes • Supplements, oat treatment and their metabolic effects • Special target groups • Comments on further aspects/target groups

A yearly congress held by the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism for ongoing education on oral, enteral and parenteral nutrition. Topics included:

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- Nutritional guidance in ICU, current challenges

- Intestinal barrier and failure in chronic diseases

- Nutrition to slow progression of kidney disease

- Assessing the gut feeling

- Inflammation and nutrition

- Compromised gut in acute illness

- Nutrition metabolism and stress

- The ongoing hurdles of gastric bypass

- Revisiting the GI tract

An intensive two-day online seminar held by Dr. Claudia Osterkamp-Baerens, owner of Top athlEAT & sports nutritionist at Olympia Center for Elite Sports. Here she shares her insights as to why people who exercise often do not see fat loss results and what effective strategies can be applied instead. Topics included:

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- Targeting afterburn effects

- Proper combination of nutrients with different exercise intensities to target fat loss

- Personalization for motivation and sustainability

An intensive online seminar held by Prof. Adrian Rufener from the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland on how to formulate nutrition diagnoses (PES-Statements: Problem-Etiology-Signs/Symptoms) professionally with the use of multiple steps and factors to improve and universalize communication between different nutrition professionals and doctors worldwide. 

An intensive online seminar held by thyroid experts from Josefstadt, Austria. Topics included:

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- Micronutrients: iodine, selenium, etc.

- Nutrition therapy for different thyroid diseases/conditions (goiters, Grave's disease, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, hyper- & hypothyroidism, thyroid cancer, thyroid nodules)

- Pregnancy & thryoid disease 

An intensive two-day seminar held by Dr. Dr. med. Charles Adarkwah, a physician in internal an general medicine and specialized in nutrition medicine. Here he shares his insights on the correct interpretation of blood and urine analysis. This includes the detection of abnormalities even when values are within the normal range, the recognition of one parameter as a marker for multiple conditions, as well as further investigation when values are within the normal but signs/symptoms persist. These approaches cannot be found solely from books but won only through years of experience. 

An intensive two-day seminar held by nutrition therapist Irmgard Landthaler, a nutrition expert in the field of nephrology which makes her a regular speaker at numerous conferences and author an co-author of various medical books. Here she shares her insights on specific blood and urine analysis, medication interactions and the handling of complications of acute kidney failure, chronic kidney disease, dialysis and kidney transplant, which cannot be found solely from books but won only through years of experience. 

Latest updates on nutrition and dietetics as well as guideline updates in clinical nutrition held y the Hellenic Dietetic Association and the Hellenic Society for Medical Nutrition (grESPEN).  

An intensive two-day seminar on the latest approach in nutrition therapy for irritable bowel syndrome, held by Prof. Dr. Christine Metzner, a physician with expertise in the field of gastroenterology and nutrition. 

Latest updates in nutrition medicine organized by the German Nutrition Association (DGE).

Latest updates in nutrition medicine organised by the Else Kroener-Fresenius Center for nutrition medicine (EKFZ) and the Technical University of Munich. 

A joint symposium of NuGO and the German Nutrition Society on the latest updates in nutrition and genetics.

Latest updates in nutrition medicine organized by the Else Kroener-Fresenius Center for nutrition medicine (EKFZ) and the Technical University of Munich.

Internal exchange on the latest research results in allergology between physicians and scientists of the Allergy Center Charité Berlin. 

Internal exchange on research updates related to allergies and anaphylaxis between physicians and scientists of the Allergy Center Charité Berlin. 

Joint congress of nutritional associations of Germany Switzerland and Austria on the latest updates in nutrition medicine.