Feeling the Heat: Adapting Naturopathic Medicine in a Climate Change World
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As anthropogenic climate change accelerates, we are seeing and anticipating its effects on our patients and our medicines. Naturopathic physicians, with our eclectic toolboxes, are among the best prepared practitioners to address these challenges. In this talk, we’ll discuss what’s known, what’s uncertain, and how naturopathic doctors can and must flex to accommodate new climate realities. We also will discuss what providers should watch for in our patients, implications for nutrient deficiencies and medication management, plant medicine sourcing and ethics, basic counseling recommendations, specific tools NDs have to address these challenges, and community and political efforts to support mental and overall health in unprecedented times.
Learning Objectives:
- Heat waves and their effects on social violence, suicidality, anxiety, sleep and psychopharmacology.
- Impaired air quality (e.g. wildfire smoke, smog, inversions, pollen) and its impact on systemic, cognitive and mental health
- Direct trauma after catastrophic events, displacement and loss of culturally significant foods and traditional activities.
- Diminished nutrient levels in staple food crops and implications for individual and community deficiencies.
- Changing chemistry, distribution and availability of our plant medicines.
This lecture was originally presented for the 2024 Spring Seminar.
Speaker Information
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Orna Izakson, ND, RH (AHG)
Dr. Orna Izakson is a licensed naturopathic doctor and registered herbalist practicing in Alaska and Oregon, specializing in mood, women’s health and chronic disease. Dr. Izakson recently completed a 2-year functional mental-health fellowship with Psychiatry Redefined, and served as lead physician of the Traditional Roots Institute at NUNM and on the Gaia Herbs science advisory board. She has been an award-winning environmental newspaper reporter, contributing to books on climate change and healthy living. Dr. Izakson is a frequent speaker on plant medicine, mental health and clinical nutrition. She is the founder of the Naturopathic Climate Alliance, and current vice president of the Alaska Association of Naturopathic Doctors. Janet L. Lewis, M.D
Janet Lewis, MD is a general psychiatrist, co-founder of the nonprofit Climate Psychiatry Alliance, co-chair of the Climate Committee, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry thinktank, and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester. Additionally, she has a private practice in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. She has given numerous academic presentations on climate mental health, and is an author on numerous peer reviewed climate publications. She is a faculty member of Climate Aware Therapist trainings, a joint project of Climate Psychiatry Alliance and Climate Psychology Alliance North America.
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Course Approval
1 General CEU approved by the Oregon Board of Naturopathic Medicine (OBNM).
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Copyright
This course contains information that is proprietary. None of the material contained within this course may be used without the express written permission of the OANP unless otherwise indicated in the course. As a reminder, before practicing any
new modalities or techniques, check with your state’s regulatory authority to ensure they are within the state’s defined scope of practice.
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