Choosing the Right Therapeutic Diet in an Ocean of Options: Focus on GI and Immune Health with Liz Lipski, PhD, CNS, BCHN®, FACN, IFMCP, LDN from HEALCon 2021. Take this quiz to earn 1.5 NANP CECs.

Liz Lipski is a Professor and the Director of the Academic Development for the graduate programs in Clinical Nutrition at the Maryland University of Integrative Health, the owner of the Innovative Healing Academy, the author of Digestive Wellness, 5th edition, and the Art of Digestive Wellness online course.

Dr. Lipski holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Nutrition, is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), and has two board certifications in clinical nutrition (CNS and BCHN®) and one in functional medicine (IFMCP). She is on faculty for The Institute for Functional Medicine and the Metabolic Medicine Institute fellowship program. She’s been published in peer-reviewed journals on probiotics, traditional foods, and food reactions, has been on many docuseries and summits, and has been interviewed hundreds of times. She is on the advisory board for the Autism Hope Alliance and is the recipient of NANP’s 2020 HEAL Award.

After 30 years of clinical practice, she devotes her time to teaching, writing, building the field of personalized nutrition, gardening, hiking, and spending time in nature.

Presentation Description:
There are many therapeutic dietary approaches to working with people who have immune and digestive issues.  It’s challenging to know which direction to take.  This lecture will focus on current research and the clinical thought process to provide the best therapeutic benefit. We’ll use the DIGIN model to explore when it’s best to use the FODMAP diet, Specific Carbohydrate Diet, 6-food Elimination Diet, Comprehensive Elimination Diet, Paleo-Immune, Elemental Diet, or a restorative diet for people who have several maldigestion or malabsorption issues.

Learning Objectives:

• Familiarize yourself with the current level of research efficacy associated with specific dietary approaches in specific health conditions;
• Utilize a systems-based approach to think through the case;
• Utilize pattern recognition of the client's needs to match them with a food plan;
• Be able to discern among various therapeutic diets the one(s) that may be most appropriate for a specific client at a specific moment in time;
• Broaden the ability to utilize a wider variety of dietary approaches.