Nutritional Solutions to Alleviate Cancer Treatment Side Effects & Teach Your Client How to Advocate for Themselves with Kirstin Nussgruber, BCHN® from the NANP 2021 HEALCon. Take this quiz to earn 1.5 NANP CECs.
A cancer nutrition expert, author, and speaker, Kirstin is passionate about helping people overcome “cancer overwhelm” by teaching them how to reclaim their lives. A two-time cancer survivor herself, she learned firsthand the importance of an integrative approach to one’s health to facilitate true healing. She offers personalized mentoring packages to private clients and in collaboration with functional medicine practitioners.
Kirstin is the bestselling author of Confessions of a Cancer Conqueror—My 5-Step Process to Transform Your Relationship with Cancer and the creator of First Steps to Take Control of Your Cancer Care, an online self-help program for people looking for an evidence-based start to their healing journey.
Kirstin shares her philosophy, inspiring blogs, and self-created recipes at www.kirstinscancercare.com. She is part of the Chilkov Clinic and the clinical team at Valley Integrative Pharmacy. Numerous integrative practitioners repeatedly refer patients to her, including Lise Alschuler ND, Kathleen Thomsen MD, and Scott Berk MD.
Presentation Description:
A growing number of certified nutritionists in our community are increasingly being confronted with past or new clients being diagnosed with cancer and requiring often debilitating conventional cancer treatments. These clients turn to the practitioner they have worked with and establish a trusting rapport for help during these challenging times – You. Oncology nutrition is not everyone’s specialty.
This presentation is for those of you who wish to support your clients undergoing cancer treatment by:
- teaching you a foundational understanding of the array of side effects they face that directly impact their nutritional status
- how you can use nutritional tools to keep your clients nourished
- teaching them with evidence-based science how they can advocate for themselves so they get their medical oncology team onboard an integrative cancer care approach
Learning Objectives:
- Outline cancer treatment-related clinical factors that impact the design and efficacy of a personalized nutrition plan for a client undergoing cancer treatment
- Identify the specific nutritional needs of a client undergoing cancer treatments
- Develop a personalized nutrition plan for cancer clients whose nutritional status is impacted by these common side effects
- Evaluate evidence-based oncology nutrition research to help cancer clients advocate for themselves in a traditionally-minded medical oncology environment often unfamiliar with an integrative oncology nutrition approach
