New 2015 Food/Nutrient Research on Anxiety and Speaker Highlights

• Nutritional medicine as mainstream in psychiatry
• What if nutrients could treat mental illness?
• The gut microbiome and diet in psychiatry, and the guts of remote Amazon dwellers
• Dietary guidelines from Brazil, exercise, mindfulness, caffeine and social interaction
• Preschoolers on Medicaid being prescribed psychotropic drugs and other medication news
• Speaker highlights, gems and connections

Food Mood Expert Trudy Scott is a certified nutritionist on a mission to educate and empower anxious individuals worldwide about natural solutions for anxiety, stress and emotional eating. Trudy serves as a catalyst in bringing about life enhancing transformations that start with the healing powers of eating real whole food, using individually targeted supplementation and making simple lifestyle changes. She works primarily with women but the information she offers works equally well for men and children.

Trudy also presents nationally to nutrition and mental health professionals on food and mood, sharing all the recent research and how-to steps so they too can educate and empower their clients and patients.

Trudy is past president of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals. She was recipient of the 2012 Impact Award and currently serves as a Special Advisor to the Board of Directors. Trudy is a member of Alliance for Addiction Solutions and Anxiety and Depression Association of America. She was a nominee for the 2015 Scattergood Innovation Award and is a faculty advisor at Hawthorn University.

Trudy is the author of The Antianxiety Food Solution: How the Foods You Eat Can Help You Calm Your Anxious Mind, Improve Your Mood and End Cravings (New Harbinger 2011) and host of The Anxiety Summit.

Trudy is passionate about sharing the powerful food mood connection because she experienced the results first-hand, finding complete resolution of her anxiety and panic attacks.

The Brain Warriors Way to Attacking Anxiety, Depression and Aging

• Why we are in a war for the health of our brains?
• Why anxiety is so common in women and how depression shows up in men
• Four different brain types
• Natural ways for dealing with anxiety (instead of typical anti-anxiety medications)
• How birth control pills contribute to anxiety
• The impact of gut health on anxiety

Dr. Daniel Amen MD is dedicated to optimizing and healing the brain. He is a physician, double board certified psychiatrist and nine-time NY Times bestselling author. He is the Founder of Amen Clinics in Costa Mesa and San Francisco, CA, Bellevue, WA, Reston, VA, Atlanta, GA and New York, NY. The clinics have the world’s largest psychiatric database of functional brain scans, totaling nearly 100,000 scans on patients from 111 countries. Dr. Amen is the lead researcher on the largest brain imaging and rehabilitation study on NFL players and he is the co-creator of The Daniel Plan with Rick Warren and Mark Hyman, a program to get the world healthy through religious organizations.

Some of Dr. Amen’s books include Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, Magnificent Mind At Any Age, The Daniel Plan and Unleash the Power of the Female Brain.

What if… Nutrition could Treat Anxiety and Depression?

• The increasing prevalence of mental health problems and medication side-effects
• Why diet is so important when it comes to mental health (anxiety, depression, ADHD and even schizophrenia)
• Nutritional medicine as mainstream in psychiatry and ISNPR (International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research)
• The problems with food: pesticides, soil quality, Roundup
• Micronutrient research for ADHD, anxiety, bipolar and PTSD)
• The emerging field of nutritional mental health: Inflammation, the microbiome, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial function

Julia Rucklidge PhD, is a Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. Originally from Toronto, Canada, she did her undergraduate training in neurobiology at McGill University in Montreal. She then completed a Master’s and PhD at the University of Calgary in clinical psychology where she studied the psychological profiles of women with ADHD. She went on to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto to complete a two year post-doctoral fellowship investigating gender differences in ADHD adolescents. In 2000, she and her husband moved to Christchurch, New Zealand where she secured a position at the University of Canterbury in the Department of Psychology. She teaches child and family psychology in the Clinical Psychology Programme and more recently, has introduced the topic of Mental Health and Nutrition into the wider psychology programme. Her interests in nutrition and mental illness grew out of her own research showing poor outcomes for children with significant psychiatric illness despite receiving conventional treatments for their conditions. In the last decade, she has been running clinical trials investigating the role of broad-spectrum micronutrients in the expression of mental illness, specifically ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, anxiety and more recently, stress and PTSD associated with the Canterbury earthquakes. She is also studying the effect of probiotics on depression. Julia has over 75 peer-reviewed studies and is passionate about helping people find alternative treatments to medications for their psychiatric symptoms. Her current research interests can be found at: psyc.canterbury.ac.nz/people/rucklidge.shtml

Your Brain on Food: The Science and Alchemy of Yum for Alleviating Anxiety!

• The wonderful definition of alchemy
• Brain boosting ingredients from Rebecca’s culinary pharmacy: lentils, mint, pumpkin seeds, cauliflower, #goodmoodsardines
• The tricks to building flavor great taste and flavor
• How to make the most of your time in the kitchen
• Tips and tricks to feel less overwhelmed in the kitchen and how to prevent recipe reading anxiety
• The secret of dollops for yum and why they are like edible makeup

A nationally-recognized culinary translator and expert on the role of food in supporting optimal health, Rebecca has a Masters of Science degree in Health and Nutrition Education, from Hawthorn University and received her culinary training from New York’s Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts.

As a consultant, speaker, teacher and chef, Rebecca works closely with physicians, nurses, and wellness professionals to include the powerful tools of flavor and nutrition in their medical arsenal. Rebecca is the Executive Chef for The Center for Mind-Body Medicine’s renowned Food as Medicine professional training in medical nutrition therapy, and consults for Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine’s premiere nutrition conference for health professionals co-directed by Andrew Weil, MD.

She is the founder and director of the Healing Kitchens Institute at Commonweal, which trains healthcare professionals and interested cooks how to translate nutritional science directly to the plate through taste and flavor.

Rebecca is the author of The Healthy Mind Cookbook: Big Flavor Recipes to Enhance Brain Function, Mood, Memory and Mental Clarity, (Ten Speed Press, 2015), The Longevity Kitchen: Satisfying Big Flavor Recipes Featuring the Top-16 Age Busting Power Foods, (Ten Speed Press, 2013) along with the award-winning cookbook The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen: Nourishing Big-Flavor Recipes for Cancer Treatment and Beyond (Ten Speed Press, 2009), and One Bite at a Time: Nourishing Recipes for Cancer Survivors and their Friends (Ten Speed Press, 2008, Second Edition).

A myriad of food related experiences, including a sojourn to Italy, where she studied Mediterranean cuisine with chefs and signoras from Florence to Sicily, shaped Rebecca’s philosophy that health-supportive food must taste great in order to be nourishing and healing. For more information and yummy recipes: rebeccakatz.com

Sauerkraut for Gut Healing and Reducing Anxiety

• Summer’s journey and recovery from allergies, gut problems, anxiety and panic attacks, and how fermented foods turned things round for her
• The good bacteria we get from fermented foods: psychobiotics and anxiety
• Sauerkraut: a “promising nutraceutical for the treatment of malnutrition-induced diseases” and how it helps with asthma, IBS and inflammatory bowel disease
• The 3 categories of fermented foods: Functional Ferments, Increased Assimilation Ferments and Primarily Preservation Ferments
• The history of kefir
• How to buy sauerkraut in the store
• How to make your own sauerkraut at home and why

Summer Bock is a Master Fermentationist who guides people to experience a deeper level of healing. Her mission is to radically improve people’s health while empowering them to revolutionize the local food system using delicious, local and healthy food. A skilled herbalist with a background in microbiology, she is certified by the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and Columbia University. Summer has created an avid following with her signature programs The Probiotic Power Cleanse, Gut Rebuilding, and the yearlong Fermentationist Certification Program. On the days it is sunny she can be found rollerblading down the streets in the Pacific Northwest. Find out more at SummerBock.com

Grainflammation – How Grain Consumption Contributes to Anxiety and other Mood Disorders

• Gluten and autoimmunity
• Schizophrenia and “bread madness”
• How gluten and all grain consumption can lead to chemical changes in the brain
• How the gluten in corn can impact the mind and mood
• Concerns with seeds and grains
• DNA testing for celiac and non-celiac gluten sensitivity

Dr. Peter Osborne is the clinical director of Origins Healthcare Center in Sugar Land, TX (just southwest of Houston). He is a doctor of chiropractic medicine and a Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist. He is an expert in orthomolecular and functional medicine. He has been practicing since 2001. His clinical focus is the holistic natural treatment of chronic degenerative diseases with a primary focus on gluten sensitivity and food allergies. He has helped thousands of patients recover from mysterious medical illnesses.

Doctor Osborne received his doctorate from Texas Chiropractic College. He has held faculty teaching positions at Texas Women’s University and HCC’s nursing program teaching Neurophysiology, Nutrition, Biology, and Anatomy & Physiology. He lectures nationally to doctors on the topics of gluten sensitivity/intolerance, celiac disease, drug induced nutritional deficiencies, and many other nutritionally related topics. He is the co-founder of Nutra-MD, a nutritional supplement product line that addresses nutrient deficiencies caused by commonly prescribed medications. He is the host for the radio program Alternatives for Health & Wellness and the Executive Secretary for the American Clinical Board of Nutrition.

He founded Gluten Free Society in 2010 to help educate patients and physicians on the far reaching effects of gluten sensitivity. He is the author of Glutenology, a series of books designed to help educate the world about gluten.

Anxiety, Depression, and the Vegetarian Diet

• How young girls are being targeted by vegan groups
• Lierre’s story and the health challenges she faced: hypoglycemia, anxiety, bone pain, fatigue
• Moral vegetarianism or veganism and factory farming
• The importance of topsoil and how it’s disappearing
• The nutritional deficiencies of a vegetarian or vegan diet: B12, fats, amino acids like tryptophan, iron, vitamin D
• The mood benefits of grass-fed red meat
• The problems with processed soy

Lierre Keith is a writer, small farmer, and radical feminist activist. She is the author of six books including, The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, which has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.” She is also coauthor, with Derrick Jensen and Aric McBay, of Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet. She’s been arrested six times for acts of political resistance. You can find out more at lierrekeith.com

Real Food for Anxiety: Butter, Broth and Beyond

• Butter and the “fats of life”
• How vegetarian diets can contribute to anxiety and other mental health disorders
• Why soy is NOT a health food and why it can contribute to anxiety, ADHD and other mental health challenges
• Paleo diet and “nose to tail eating”
• Broths help to cure melancholy/depression and help us deal with stress
• A simple broth recipe
• The component in broth that helps calm the mind and quell anxiety
• How broths heal the gut and how this heals our brains

Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, is known as The Naughty Nutritionist® because she outrageously and humorously debunks nutritional myths. She is Vice President of the Weston A. Price Foundation and on the Board of Directors of the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund.

Dr. Daniel earned her PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati, is certified as a clinical nutritionist (CCN) by the International and American Association of Clinical Nutritionists in Dallas, and in 2005, received the Weston A. Price Foundation’s Integrity in Science Award.

She is coauthor (with Sally Fallon Morell) of Nourishing Broth: An Old-Fashioned Remedy for the Modern World (2014) and the author of The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America’s Favorite Health Food (2005).

Dr. Daniel has been a guest on The Dr. Oz Show, PBS Healing Quest, NPR’s People’s Pharmacy,  ABC’s View from the Bay, and Discovery Channel’s Medical Hotseat, and has shared the stage with Dr. Mark Hyman,  JJ Virgin, Chris Kresser, Gary Taubes, Charles Poliquin,  Dr. Joseph Mercola, Joel Salatin, Dr. Terry Wahls, David Wolfe and other prominent health experts.  Dr Daniel has also spoken at numerous professional conferences, including  Ancestral Health, BoulderFest, Wise Traditions, National Association of Nutritional Professionals (NANP), Nutritional Therapy Association (NTA) and Bio-Signature.

Subscribe to Dr. Kaayla’s Naughty Edge newsletter at her website drkaayladaniel.com and join her on Facebook at @DrKaaylaDaniel

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth and Anxiety

• An overview of SIBO/small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and recent research
• The SIBO connection to IBS and anxiety/depression
• Using a SIBO questionnaire and SIBO testing
• SIBO treatment: medications, a herbal approach and diet
• Gut motility and low serotonin/low melatonin

Allison Siebecker, ND, MSOM, LAc, has worked in the nutritional field since 1988 and is a 2005 graduate of The National College of Natural Medicine (NCNM) where she earned her Doctorate in Naturopathic Medicine and her Masters in Oriental Medicine. Dr Siebecker is the Medical Director of the SIBO Center for Digestive Health at NCNM Clinic in Portland, OR, where she specializes in the treatment of SIBO. She is instructor of Advanced Gastroenterology at NCNM, teaches continuing education classes for physicians, is the author of the educational website siboinfo.com and is writing a book synthesizing the SIBO data into one source. In 2005 and 2013, she received the Best in Naturopathy award from the Townsend Letter for her articles “Traditional Bone Broth in Modern Health and Disease”(2005) and “Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth: Often Overlooked Cause of IBS” (2013). Find out more at siboinfo.com

The Parasite/Anxiety Connection

• How common are parasites and how do we become infected (even if we live in a first world country)
• How do parasites contribute to anxiety and depression and even schizophrenia
• Other symptoms of a parasitic infection
• How to avoid being exposed to parasites
• How to test for parasites and how do we get rid of the parasite/s

Highly respected as the grande dame of alternative health and award-winning author of over 30 books, Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, CNS, single-handedly launched the weight loss/detox revolution in her New York Times bestseller The Fat Flush Plan. A Connecticut College and Teachers College, Columbia University graduate, she has been recognized as one of the top ten nutritionists in the country by Self magazine and was the recipient of the American Medical Writers Association award for excellence.

Dr. Ann Louise forged new ways of thinking about obesity early on in her career. She was the first to proclaim that obesity was caused by the lack of dietary fats and the wrong kind of carbohydrates in her book Beyond Pritikin (1988) where she predicted that the fat-free, carb-rich diet was creating weight gain, sugar cravings, fatigue and diabetes.

Always ahead of her time, Dr. Ann Louise has set the pace for new health protocols over the last two decades with a myriad of breakthrough books including Get the Sugar Out, Guess What Came To Dinner? Parasites and Your Health, Your Body Knows Best, the New York Times bestseller Before The Change: How to Take Charge of Your Perimenopause, “The Gut Flush Plan”, The Fast Track Detox Diet and Fat Flush for Life.

A savvy and dynamic speaker, Dr. Ann Louise has appeared on 20/20, Dr. Phil, The View, Good Morning America and The Early Show. Her work has been featured in a myriad of national publications ranging from Time and Newsweek to Glamour, Ebony and The Oprah Magazine.

Today, she continues to dedicate herself to carving out new landmarks in holistic health and healing. Her latest book, the highly acclaimed Zapped (HarperOne, 2010) is a step-by-step manual for fortifying the body, detoxifying the home, and protecting yourself from the invisible hazards of electropollution.

Visit her website annlouise.com and join her on facebook at @annlouisegittleman

How to Heal Anxiety with Nature and the Body, not just with the Mind

• Why the “the body whispers before it screams”
• What stress has to do with anxiety
• Mind/body interventions and why they help
• Why nature is so important for reducing anxiety and even improving cognition
• What love has to do with any of this
• The role of our genes in anxiety and depression
• Why sleep is so important?

Dr. Eva Selhub MD, is a physician, author, speaker and consultant in the fields of stress, resilience, mind-body medicine and working with the natural environment to achieve maximum health and wellbeing. She is a lecturer in medicine at Harvard Medical School and a clinical associate of the Massachusetts General Hospital. She was medical director and senior physician at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital for thirteen years. A trained internist and board certified in internal medicine, Dr. Selhub runs a private practice as a comprehensive medical specialist and transformation consultant. She is the author of The Love Response: Your Prescription to Turn Off Fear, Anger, and Anxiety to Achieve Vibrant Health and Transform Your Life, Your Brain on Nature: The Science of Nature’s Influence on Your Health, Happiness and Vitality with Alan Logan and the newly released book Your Health Destiny: How to Unlock Your Natural Ability to Overcome Illness, Feel Better, and Live Longer. Learn more at drselhub.com

Is Toxic Mold the Hidden Cause of Your Anxiety?

• An overview of functional medicine
• How common is it for mold and mycotoxins to contribute to illness and anxiety
• Where are we exposed to mold
• Top symptoms associated with mycotoxin-associated illness
• How to treat mold/mycotoxin exposure in someone who has anxiety (or depression)
• The role of methylation and MTHFR polymorphisms in our detox abilities

Dr. Carnahan MD, completed her residency at the University of Illinois Program in Family Medicine at Methodist Medical Center. In 2006 she was voted by faculty to receive the Resident Teacher of the Year award and elected to Central Illinois 40 Leaders Under 40. She received her medical degree from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago and her Bachelor of Science degree in Bio-Engineering at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. She is dually board-certified in Family Medicine (ABFM) and Integrative Holistic Medicine (ABIHM). She was also part of the first 100 health-care practitioners to be certified in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine (IFMCP). In 2008, Dr. Carnahan’s vision for health and healing resulted in the creation of Methodist Center for Integrative Medicine in Peoria, IL where she served as the Medical Director for 2 years. In 2010, she founded Flatiron Functional Medicine in Boulder, Colorado where she practices functional medicine with medical partner, Dr. Robert Rountree. Dr. Carnahan is also 13-year survivor of breast cancer and Crohn’s disease and passionate about teaching patients how to “live well” and thrive in the midst of complex and chronic illness. She is also committed to teaching other physicians how to address underlying cause of illness rather than just treating symptoms through the principles of functional medicine. She is a prolific writer, speaker, and loves to infuse others with her passion for health and healing!

Nutritional Influences on Anxiety and Musculoskeletal Pain

• Link between anxiety and chronic musculoskeletal problems
• Fear avoidance behaviors and pain
• Headaches, back pain, joint pain and nutritional influences
• An exercise prescription for anxiety

Joe Tatta, DPT is a doctor of physical therapy. He is Co-Founder of Premier Physical Therapy & Wellness, one of the largest outpatient physical therapy providers in the New York Tri-State area. He is board certified in orthopedics from the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties and has studied nutrition and functional medicine through the University of Western States and the Institute of Functional Medicine. His mission is to help over a million people arrive to a place where they are healthier, pain-free and energized from the inside out. Achieving it naturally by optimizing your movement, nutrition and intentions is the way to turn around chronic patterns and optimize your health.

Foods to balance your hormones and ease anxiety

• Magdalena’s own journey with Graves’ disease, Hashimoto’s disease, adrenal fatigue, estrogen dominance and anxiety
• How hormonal imbalances can cause anxiety: low progesterone, low/high estrogen
• How over and underactive thyroid can cause anxiety
• The adrenals and anxiety and depression
• How to test for hormonal imbalances
• The foundation to all hormonal health being: healthy gut, healthy blood sugar levels and optimal liver health
• Foods that support the production of the different hormones
• Seed rotation for balancing estrogen and progesterone
• The role of coffee in liver health, hormone metabolism and anxiety

Magdalena Wszelaki is the founder of Hormones Balance, a nutrition coaching practice dedicated to helping women to rebalance their hormones with nutritional and lifestyle changes. Magdalena is a certified nutrition coach, speaker, educator and chef with a long history of hormonal challenges which resulted from a highly stressful life in advertising – starting from Graves’ and Hashimoto’s Disease (autoimmune conditions causing thyroid failure) to adrenal fatigue and estrogen dominance. Today she is in full remission, lives a symptoms-free awesome life and teaches woman how to accomplish the same in her various online coaching programs.

How Methylfolate can make you Feel Worse and even Cause Anxiety, and What to do about it

• Methylfolate and the MTHFR polymorphism
• Anxiety and other side effects of too much methylfolate
• How to prevent methylfolate side-effects
• How to determine how much methylfolate to take

Benjamin Lynch, ND received his Cell and Molecular Biology, BS from the University of Washington and his ND from Bastyr University. His passion for identifying the cause of disease directed him towards nutrigenomics and methylation dysfunction. Currently, he researches, writes and presents worldwide on the topic of MTHFR and methylation defects. You may learn more about Dr Lynch and his work at MTHFR.net. Dr. Lynch is also the President & CEO of SeekingHealth.com, a company oriented towards disease prevention and health promotion. He lives in Bothell, WA with his wife, Nadia, and three boys, Tasman, Mathew and Theodor.

Micronutrients for Eliminating Anxiety

• The importance of micronutrient sufficiency and Mira’s osteoporosis
• The Calton’s 6 year, 135 country expedition to explore traditional diets
• The definition of naked calories
• How glyphosate/Roundup impacts mineral absorption in plants and thereby impacts us
• The new GM arctic apple and why it should be avoided
• How minerals compete for absorption
• Zinc/copper balance and why we want a multi with no copper

Mira Calton, CN, FAAIM, DCCN, CMS, CPFC, BCIH is a Licensed Certified Nutritionist, a Fellow of the American Association of Integrative Medicine, a Diplomate of the College of Clinical Nutrition, a Certified Personal Fitness Chef and is Board Certified in Integrative Health. She holds a Diploma in Comprehensive Nutrition from Huntington College of Health Sciences, has completed the Yale University School of Medicine’s OWCH (Online Weight Management Counseling for Healthcare Providers) program, and currently sits on the American Board of Integrative Health. Mira’s interest in nutrition came after having been diagnosed at the age of thirty with advanced osteoporosis. Working with her husband Dr. Jayson Calton to become micronutrient sufficient Mira reversed her condition, they now work together to inspire others to do the same.

Jayson B. Calton, PhD, FAAIM, DCCN, CMS, CISSN, BCIH, ROHP is a Fellow of the American Association of Integrative Medicine, a Diplomate of the College of Clinical Nutrition, and is Board Certified in Integrative Health and Sports Nutrition. He has worked with thousands of international clients over the last 20 years to improve their health through his unique nutritional and lifestyle therapies. Dr. Calton majored in Molecular and Microbiology (pre-med), at the Burnett Honors College, School of Biomedical Sciences and holds a Masters of Science degree and a Ph.D. in Nutrition. He has completed post-doctoral continuing medical education at Harvard Medical School, Cornell University, and Yale University School of Medicine, and sits on the Board of Directors for the American Holistic Health Association (AHHA) and the American Board of Integrative Health (ABIH).

Together the Caltons are among the world’s leading experts on the topics of weight management, lifestyle medicine and micronutrient deficiency. Their high success rate working with adults and children to achieve sustainable weight loss and reverse health and disease conditions has made their consultancy highly sought after by celebrities, athletes and top corporate executives around the world.

It is their belief that becoming micronutrient sufficient is the first step towards preventing and reversing many of today’s most prevalent health conditions and diseases.  The Caltons appear regularly on numerous media outlets including a monthly column in First for Women magazine as well as nutritional experts on FOX and Friends and CNN with Sanjay Gupta.

Histamine-containing Foods: their Role in Anxiety, Depression and Schizophrenia

• What is histamine
• Yasmina’s anxiety story and how she discovered the histamine connection
• How histamine can cause symptoms of anxiety: high-histamine foods, low levels of DOA or HMNT enzyme, neuroinflammation
• The histamine and depression/ schizophrenia connection and possible links to pyroluria
• Histamine disorders: allergies, histamine intolerance and mast cell activation
• The difficulty in diagnosing a histamine intoleranceHigh histamine foods and factors that cause histamine to be released
• High histamine foods with anti-inflammatory properties
• How to eat when you have a histamine intolerance: the “histamine-balanced” diet
• Histamine interaction with psych medications such as valium and why this can be problematic for many doing the Ashton benzodiazepine taper protocol
• Histamine interaction with other medications and dyes in medications

Yasmina Ykelenstam, the Low Histamine Chef, is a former CNN/BBC journalist and luxury brand marketing professional turned nutrition/wellness blogger and cookbook author after using a high-nutrient, gluten-free, histamine-balanced “flexitarian” diet to heal a chronic inflammatory condition. Due to her investigative skills and her ability to publicize information online, her reporting on the topics of histamine intolerance and mast cell activation (MCA) syndrome has earned her the respect of an international community of physicians and researchers. Yasmina now has thousands of devoted, grateful readers whose lives she positively impacted by putting a name to their pain and advising them on how to eat and live so they can heal, recover, and move forward without discomfort.

A Dutch-Lebanese citizen, Yasmina grew up in the United States and Europe. Her Dutch father was a vice-president for Sheraton and developed new hotels. Her Lebanese mother was a journalist. The family resided in New York, Spain, London, Paris, and Beirut. She holds a B.A from Trinity University in Washington, D.C., and is currently studying nutrition with Joel Fuhrman, M.D., author of Super Immunity.

Yasmina has over ten years of experience in research and international news production for programs that include CBS’s 60 Minutes, where she began as an intern, and CNN’s Inside Politics andbusiness news division. After 9/11, she was pulled into the general news division at CNN, where she worked with Wolf Blitzer, John Snow, Christiane Amanpour, Richard Quest, and Hala Gorani. She was part of a team that received the Edward R. Murrow Award for coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War with Israel. After CNN, she did field reporting from Baghdad for Fox New and the BBC. The journalistic standards of her blog are of the highest order due to her training.

While residing in London and bedridden (2008–2010), she worked producing and copywriting promotional campaigns for the Nobrand Agency, an award-winning digital consultancy working with luxury brands. Her accounts included the Doha Tribeca Film Festival (NYC), Nokia, Mercedes-Benz, Bischoff/Weiss Gallery (London), Elie Saab, Roberto Cavalli, and the Oscar-winning 2007 documentary No End in Sight.

After her thirty-year struggle to identify the source of her diverse constellation of physical, emotional, and mental symptoms began to come to an end in 2010 with the recognition that her histamine levels were involved—a discovery that ultimately led to a valid diagnosis of MCA syndrome—Yasmina devoted herself full time to her recovery. She subsequently became a full-time blogger and health reporter, successfully publishing nine ebooks (PDFs) on low-histamine cooking and lifestyle.

Not only does Yasmina back up each claim on her website and blog with numerous studies, she makes sure to put her journalism background to good use by interviewing leading medical experts, bestselling authors, and healers. She and her blog have been featured in articles appearing in Huffington Post, BBC News, The (London) Times, First for Women, Buzz Feed, Aftonbladet (Sweden), Health Monitor, and GreenMedInfo.

Yasmina currently resides in London, England, and Marbella, Spain, and also spends frequent intervals visiting New York City.

Serotonin and Anxiety, Happiness, Digestion and our Hormones

• What is serotonin and why is it often considered the molecule of happiness
• The role of serotonin when it comes to anxiety?
• How serotonin was first discovered and the 5-HT1A receptor/oxytocin connection
• Serotonin’s strong relationship to the digestive tract
• The connection between inflammation and serotonin
• How to naturopathically support serotonin and the overall neurotransmitter system for optimal mood support: 5-HTP, L-tryptophan and its vitamin co-factors
• Serotonin’s effects on our hormones, other neurotransmitters and whole body

Dr. Peter Bongiorno is co-medical director of InnerSource Natural Health and Acupuncture, a thriving practice with two clinics in New York (New York City and Long Island). He specializes in mood disorder and depression.

Dr. Bongiorno teaches an integrative medicine elective at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and also lectures at the Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City. He is an expert blogger for Psychology Today, and has appeared multiple times on national FOX news programs.

He is current President of the NY Association of Naturopathic Physicians and, was chosen naturopathic physician of the year in New York State in 2008.

Dr. Bongiorno is a major contributor to the Textbook of Natural Medicine and authored the 2010 textbook for physicians Healing Depression: Integrated Naturopathic and Conventional Therapies for Depression. He authored How Come They’re Happy and I’m Not – The Complete Natural Program for Healing Depression for Good (Red Wheel / Conari) and Holistic Therapies for Anxiety and Depression recently released by WW Norton.

Peter loves running outside, playing the drums, making breakfast, and enjoying life with daughter Sophia and fellow naturopathic doctor Pina LoGiudice.

Please join Peter @drbongiorno on Facebook or learn more about him through InnerSourceHealth.com and drpeterbongiorno.com

Pyroluria, Amino Acids and Anxiety: Real Cases, Real Solutions

• How pyroluria affects mood and anxiety and introversion
• Amino acids GABA and tryptophan: how they can help you feel less anxious and happier in as little as 5 minutes
• What is a pixie dust person
• Gina, case study 1: social anxiety/pyroluria, birth control pill, vegetarian, low GABA, low serotonin and low iron
• Mark, case study 2: social anxiety, pyroluria, claustrophobia, low serotonin, very sensitive to noise, gluten sensitivity

Karla A Maree is a Certified Nutrition Consultant and Certified Neuronutrient Therapy Specialist. For the past 9 years, Karla has been working with functional diagnostic nutrition in both the clinical setting (in the Diet Cure Clinic, formerly Julia Ross’ Recovery Systems Clinic) and in private practice using a multitude of assessments and tests. Her specialty is brain chemistry (including pyroluria, histamine and fatty acid imbalances, and bipolar spectrum disorder). She helps clients recover naturally from depression, anxiety, addictions, and disordered eating. In addition to brain chemistry, she works with sex hormones, thyroid and adrenal function, sleep, gastrointestinal wellness, and autoimmunity and inflammation.

As a distance instructor, she trains licensed and/or certified therapists, psychologists, NDs, acupuncturists, RNs, nutritionists, and other health professionals from around the US and the world, through Julia Ross’ Neuronutrient Therapy Institute in advanced amino acid therapy and related techniques. By learning the basics of brain chemistry, and how mood is affected by nutrition, genetics, (and the internal and external environment in general), practitioners are able to dramatically improve their healing success rate with even their most challenging clients. You can find out more at KarlaMaree.com

Pyroluria, Amino Acids and Anxiety: Troubleshooting when you are not getting results

• Pyroluria and the effects of leaky gut, oxalates and low oxytocin levels
• CFS, ADHD, autism, alcoholism, Lyme disease: the pyroluria connection
• Introversion and musician’s dystonia: an update on the pyroluria connection
• Troubleshooting the pyroluria protocol and mistakes I see
• Testing for pyroluria, zinc, vitamin B6 and fatty acids
• The 8 factors that make the targeted individual amino acids more effective
• What to do when the amino acids are not working
• Concerns about quinolinic acid and tryptophan?

Food Mood Expert Trudy Scott is a certified nutritionist on a mission to educate and empower anxious individuals worldwide about natural solutions for anxiety, stress and emotional eating. Trudy serves as a catalyst in bringing about life enhancing transformations that start with the healing powers of eating real whole food, using individually targeted supplementation and making simple lifestyle changes. She works primarily with women but the information she offers works equally well for men and children.

Trudy also presents nationally to nutrition and mental health professionals on food and mood, sharing all the recent research and how-to steps so they too can educate and empower their clients and patients.

Trudy is past president of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals. She was recipient of the 2012 Impact Award and currently serves as a Special Advisor to the Board of Directors. Trudy is a member of Alliance for Addiction Solutions and Anxiety and Depression Association of America. She was a nominee for the 2015 Scattergood Innovation Award and is a faculty advisor at Hawthorn University.

Trudy is the author of The Antianxiety Food Solution: How the Foods You Eat Can Help You Calm Your Anxious Mind, Improve Your Mood and End Cravings (New Harbinger 2011) and host of The Anxiety Summit.

Trudy is passionate about sharing the powerful food mood connection because she experienced the results first-hand, finding complete resolution of her anxiety and panic attacks.

How to use MindBody Medicine to Reverse Anxiety in 3 Minutes or Less

• Why anxiety leads to us developing diseases like heart disease
• What is MindBody medicine
• How do we use MindBody medicine to reverse anxiety, depression, pain or other symptoms instantly
• MindBody tools like the instant elevation technique
• The broccoli yoga pose

Dr. Kim D’Eramo is a physician, speaker, bestselling author of The MindBody Tool Kit: 10 Tools to Immediately Increase Energy, Enhance Performance, and Even Reverse Disease, and founder of The American Institute of MindBody Medicine. She is board-certified in Emergency Medicine, and attended residency at Emory University in Atlanta.

After healing herself from a chronic illness using MindBody tools, she now empowers millions to use the same tools to immediately shift their body chemistry and brain activity to patterns that create health and wellbeing.

Dr. D’Eramo conducts online group training programs, and speaks internationally to doctors, medical students, and the general public to teach self-healing tools. Receive your free MindBody tools today at: DrKimD.com

How Gluten Elimination Healed Me and Eliminated my Anxiety

• Lebby’s gluten story and how she nearly died
• The gluten testing she did and what she learned
• The C.R.A.P diet
• Community work and the Fooducation® Movie Series
• Buying local produce

Lebby Salinas is a certified health & wellness coach, board certified holistic health practitioner by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners, an ADHD/ADD coach, a change-maker and a visionary. Lebby has a degree in home economics and minor in marketing. Her education and personal experiences have equipped her with extensive knowledge that she draws on to work with clients to help them make lifestyle changes that produce real and lasting results. Lebby suffered from many food allergies and illnesses that conventional medicine couldn’t diagnose or cure; at one point, becoming very ill and needing to be hospitalized. After many years and many thousands of dollars, she took her health into her own hands. Lebby took Hippocrates at his word and began to “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” She discovered that it was more about what was wrong with the foods she was eating, not what was wrong with her body. The more she studied health, food, and nutrition, the more passionate she became about sharing with others the power of holistic health and the power that “real food” has in nourishing and healing our bodies, minds and spirits. Lebby is the founder of Fooducation® and sprouted a grassroots movement teaching others how food affects our health and our world. In collaboration with The Historic Cine El Rey Theatre Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) organization, Lebby started a community effort to help improve the health and wellness of communities via the Fooducation® Movie Series that works towards “Changing lives one movie at a time.”™ You can read more about Lebby and her work at thefooducator.com and getfooducated.org

My Anxiety Story and the Message of Hope We Offer

• Safe Harbor /Alternative Mental Health: a message of hope and practitioner resources
• His low zinc, histadelia and anxiety
• Margot Kidder’s story with amino acids and bipolar disorder
• Success with social anxiety/pyroluria
• His greatest piece of wisdom from an elderly African priest

Safe Harbor is the world’s largest site on non-drug approaches for mental health. Thousands of people around the world have recovered from mental disorders and now enjoy the simple pleasures of a drug-free life. Most were told this was impossible. Yet we hear from these individuals regularly. Many others have been able to significantly reduce their dependency on psychiatric medication. Commonly these people find that underlying their “mental” disorders are medical problems, allergies, toxic conditions, nutritional imbalances, poor diets, lack of exercise, or other treatable physical conditions. Find out more at alternativementalhealth.com

Safe Harbor is a nonprofit corporation, founded in 1998 and based in Los Angeles, California.

In 1958, when Safe Harbor founder Dan Stradford was four years old, his father, William Stradford, vanished into a mental hospital with a “nervous breakdown.” After receiving a series of shock treatments and potent drugs, William Stradford returned home a broken man. His memory was gone, his personality had deteriorated, and he could scarcely hold a job.

William Stradford – a once-vibrant, personable man – never recovered. The family, with 4 children, plummeted into poverty and fell apart. All the children except for Dan ended up in children’s homes.

From a very early age, Dan Stradford felt there had to be safer, more effective alternatives for treating the mentally disturbed. In 1998 he formed the groundwork for the Safe Harbor Project to help others avoid the tragedy he witnessed growing up.

Finding many like-minded people inside and outside the medical community, Dan requested their help as board members and advisors and the Safe Harbor Project was born.

In addition to being the Safe Harbor President, Dan Stradford is a semi-retired corporate executive, a naturalist, writer and editor.

Closing call: 60+ Nutritional & Biochemical Causes of Anxiety and Recommended Supplements

• 60+ Nutritional/biochemical causes of anxiety and associated solutions
• 4 degrees/levels of anxiety I see and response to the 60+ causes
• The unique ability of the body to heal
• Testing I use with my clients and what tests I’d run if everyone had unlimited funds
• My recommendations: food companies and supplements
• My message of hope

Food Mood Expert Trudy Scott is a certified nutritionist on a mission to educate and empower anxious individuals worldwide about natural solutions for anxiety, stress and emotional eating. Trudy serves as a catalyst in bringing about life enhancing transformations that start with the healing powers of eating real whole food, using individually targeted supplementation and making simple lifestyle changes. She works primarily with women but the information she offers works equally well for men and children.

Trudy also presents nationally to nutrition and mental health professionals on food and mood, sharing all the recent research and how-to steps so they too can educate and empower their clients and patients.

Trudy is past president of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals. She was recipient of the 2012 Impact Award and currently serves as a Special Advisor to the Board of Directors. Trudy is a member of Alliance for Addiction Solutions and Anxiety and Depression Association of America. She was a nominee for the 2015 Scattergood Innovation Award and is a faculty advisor at Hawthorn University.

Trudy is the author of The Antianxiety Food Solution: How the Foods You Eat Can Help You Calm Your Anxious Mind, Improve Your Mood and End Cravings (New Harbinger 2011) and host of The Anxiety Summit.

Trudy is passionate about sharing the powerful food mood connection because she experienced the results first-hand, finding complete resolution of her anxiety and panic attacks.