Dr. Hyla Cass has incorporated nutrition and natural health techniques into her practice for more than 15 years and is one of the country's foremost authors and speakers on the subject of integrative medicine. In this teleseminar we learned how prescription drugs can rob you of essential vitamins and minerals, how to supplement your prescription, and the truth about many chronic conditions.

Topics Covered:

• Learn which natural supplements help counteract drug side-effects.
  
• On statins? Choose supplements which counter the damage statins actually cause your heart.
• Find out what to do for gastric complications from taking aspirin and ibuprophen.
• Discover how supplements can prevent “rebounding” when coming off anti-depressants.
• Become savvy about your medication choices – learn to ask questions.
  
• Find the underlying causes of your ill health; don’t just treat symptoms.
• Depressed? Look at the natural alternatives before committing to drug treatment.
• Understand the critical role played by diet and lifestyle in mental health before you choose drugs.
• Avoid the multiplication effect – a drug to treat the side-effects of another drug.
• Learn natural pain relief substances that will save your stomach lining.
• Understand the nutritional price you pay for taking anti-depressants.
• Learn how to support not just your thyroid, but your whole energy/metabolic system.
• Understand the hormonal ramifications of birth control pills, and learn when replacement with identical hormones is useful.
• Find out how to distinguish a healthy craving from a food addiction.

Dr. Cass’ three principles for treatment are to treat the whole person – mind, body, spirit, and environment, look for the deepest root problems beneath any symptoms, and apply a continuum of treatments always beginning with the safest, most natural, and more benign.

Dr. Cass is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA School of Medicine, Member of the Advisory Board of Health Sciences Institute, Taste for Life Magazine, and Total Health Magazine, and Past President and board member of 'Nourish America'. She appears regularly as an expert in the field, on radio, TV (including the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, and MSNBC), and in publications such as the Los Angeles Times, The Toronto Star, Cosmopolitan, Time Magazine, and People Magazine.

Liz Lipski, PhD, CCN Is the host of the Access to Health Experts interview series. She holds a doctorate and is board certified in Clinical Nutrition, is the author of Digestive Wellness, Digestive Wellness for Children, and Leaky Gut Syndrome. She’s the Director of Doctoral Studies at Hawthorn University, and the nutrition editor for Pilates Style Magazine. Dr. Lipski is the founder of several web-based health information sites including Innovative Healing and Access to Health Experts.