Great Hawaii Conference - What Your Patients Are Missing

Some drugs ask the body to do a job it does not have the parts for. When those parts are missing, the patient stalls, and it looks like a side effect or like the treatment simply failed.

That gap is what this day is about.

In the morning, Dr. Matt Chalmers covers the GLP-1 medications. Many of the problems patients report are not really side effects at all; they are nutrient deficiencies the drug itself created. He works through the effects organ by organ, and then gives you a daily support plan and a lab schedule you can put to use on Monday.

After lunch, Dr. Nicole Gesik explains why some patients stop improving even when the diagnosis is right, and the care is appropriate. She shows you what the body was missing and how to replace it.

Two doctors, one idea: find what is missing, feed the tissue, and protect the muscle.

3:30 – 6:30 PM · Optional: Sunset Catamaran Cruise and Dinner

Matt Chalmers, DC, CCCN, CCSP Dr. Chalmers is the founder and Metabolic Wellness Director of Pillars of Wellness in Frisco, Texas. He has spent nearly twenty years treating metabolic, hormonal, and inflammatory problems. He is a TEDx speaker, the bestselling author of Pillars of Wellness, and the host of The Dr. Chalmers Show. National media outlets regularly call on him as an expert in weight-loss medications and peptide therapy.

Nicole Y. Gesik, DO Dr. Gesik is a board-certified family medicine physician with added qualifications in sports medicine, and a co-founder of IMUA Orthopedics, Sports & Health in Honolulu. She completed her sports medicine fellowship at the John A. Burns School of Medicine and serves as a volunteer team physician for University of Hawai'i at Mānoa Athletics. She has been a member of the Institute for Functional Medicine since 2009. Her research career began in muscle physiology, and she has published work on how exercise changes calcium release in muscle.

Info: How These Medications Affect Each Organ•Effects on the brain, gut, heart, kidneys, pancreas, and thyroid
• Which problems come from the drug itself, and which come from a missing nutrient

Info: • Effects on the brain, gut, heart, kidneys, pancreas, and thyroid
• Which problems come from the drug itself, and which come from a missing nutrient

Info: • A complete daily nutrient support plan
• Which labs to run, and how often to run them
• Real patient cases, worked through from start to finish

Info: • How to support neuromuscular function during the active phase
• The repair and recovery phase
• Is it a structural problem, or a metabolic one?

Info: • Biochemical: mitochondria, cofactors, inflammation, blood sugar, and protein
• Biophysical: load, light, magnetism, oxygen regulation, temperature, and sleep

Info: • The common neuromuscular phenotypes
• How to build lifestyle and exercise prescriptions
• Case studies

Event venue

Courtyard King Kamehameha's Kona Beach Hotel, 75-5660 Palani Road, Kailua-Kona, United States

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