
Kyla Helm, M.D.
About the Instructor
Introduction to Clinical Nutrition is an online, 8-week course with downloadable, weekly course lectures and materials as well as live Q & A sessions. This course covers toxins, micronutrient deficiencies in our culture, useful and controversial modern diets, interpreting lab tests, specific disease processes like diabetes, ADD/ADHD, cardiovascular disease and their links to specific nutritional issues. Kyla presents this material in a very understandable format, and includes her years of clinical experience along with fundamental nutrition concepts.
Introduction to Clinical Nutrition covers 20 hours of class time. In this 8-week course we will cover:
– Introduction to functional medicine & clinical nutrition
– Basic Tenets of Health Eating (The Big Picture)
– Nutrition 101
– Macronutients: carbs, fats, proteins and fiber
– Label Reading
– Phytonutrients
– Sugar, HFCS and other sweeteners
– Sodas
– Water & Other Beneficial Drinks
Course Contents
Course Curriculum
- Resource - Week 3 - Food Log
- Resource - Week 3 - Carbohydrate Chart
- Resource- Week 3- Carbohydrates
- Video- Week 3- Carbohydrates
- Resource- Week 3- Fat Overview
- Video- Week 3- Fat Overview
- Resource- Week 3- Fat Debate
- Video- Week 3- Fat Debate
- Resource- Week 3- Label Reading
- Video- Week 3- Label Reading
- Resource - Week 5 - Magnesium Deficiency
- Resource - Week 5 - Soil Health
- Resource - Week 5 - Micronutrient Deficiencies
- Video- Week 5- Artificial Sweetener - Part 1
- Video- Week 5- Artificial Sweetener- Part 2
- Video- Week 5- Artificial Sweetener- Part 3
- Resource- Week 5- Artificial Sweeteners PDF
- Video- Week 5- Natural Sweeteners- Part 1
- Video- Week 5- Natural Sweeteners- Part 2
- Recording- Class with Dr. Kyla Helm Sept 30th
- Audio Recording - Dr. Helm - Sept 30th
- Chat Log - Sept. 30th
- Recording - Student Study Session with Amelia Cortez - Oct 7th
- Audio Recording - Oct 7th Study Session
- Chat Log - Oct 7th
- Recording- Student Study Session with Amelia Cortez- October 22nd
- Recording- Dr. Kyla Helm- October 28th
- Recording- November 4th- Amelia Cortez
- Recording- November 18th- Amelia Cortez