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I spent last week kinda wishin’ I hadn’t registered for this Conference run by the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition. I am not sure if it was that goofy word “holistic” or if I was too tired not to take the weekend off. Maybe I didn’t think I would learn anything or wasn’t sure that I would fit in with a bunch of hippy skirt wearing, crystal wavin’ Nutritionists. Whatever the assumption, BOY WAS I WRONG!!!! And, I love to be wrong if it means that a new path or even pathway in my brain. What I discovered at the Canadian Holistic Nutrition Conference was a room full of very dedicated, talented people (yes, mostly women) who are like me! They are entrepreneurs dedicated to learning everything there is to know about food and digestion. (They too love poop!) They too, have studied and read and seek out founded, evidence based, ways to help people with their health. The attendees were mostly graduates of a great school with a wonderful curriculum that should be admired and supported. The Canadian School of Natural Nutrition is not were I graduated from but is where I want to be. Most of the people I met are healthy, omnivores who have the occasional cookie and glass of wine. Not at all the wasting, pale, hippies of yesteryear. In fact, the most “hippyish” person there was one of the speakers, an MD from California by the name of Dr. Eldon Hass. He was the guy playing the bamboo flute like thingy to call us all back to the table after lunch (fabu food, too!). The MD with a practice focusing on eliminating allergens and stimulants from the diet of a patient before he prescribed pills was kooky AND informed. Of course you can be both! Why did I think I would be the only one? I learned about digestion and the use of fermented foods (miso, sauerkraut, yogurt…) to balance the gut flora, a couple of cool supplements and the deeply researched process behind them. (Salvestrol as a cancer fighter to name one) and the protocol Dr. Hass uses to help his patients abstain from the foods that may be contributing to their ill health. I met a handful of women who would do me proud if they would call me “colleague” and was pleased to notice that the strange personalities were few and far between. Here’s to making an assumption, testing it, being wrong and living to tell the story.
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