Nutrition and Medical Weight Loss

Nutrition and Medical Weight Loss

This course is part of Holistic Weight Management Specialization

Instructor: NASM Faculty

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What you'll learn

How to differentiate between Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy, and biliopancreatic diversion with duodenal switch (BPD/DS) surgeries.
The pros and cons of medical weight loss procedures.
The role of appetite suppressant medications, nutrient blockers, and meal replacements in medical weight loss.

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Taught in English

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This course delves into the diverse landscape of medical weight loss, offering an exploration of various approaches and their nutritional implications. You'll gain insights into how different medical weight loss methods work, understand potential challenges, and learn how to adjust your nutrition to support optimal body function during and after these interventions.

We are excited to be able to dive into this very important topic with you and to go on this educational journey together. This course is going to explore the landscape of medical weight loss. During this journey we are going to learn about how different approaches work, some of the potential drawbacks, and how we can adjust our nutrition to ensure that our body’s function and thrive during and after medical weight loss interventions. We hope that after interacting with this course, you walk away with a better understanding of how the body adapts to medical weight loss and a few tips and tricks for how to adjust your nutrition based on the different types of medical weight loss available.