Metabolic Dysregulation and Insulin
Introduction
‘Worldwide, obesity has nearly tripled since 1975.’
Today, most people live in a place where being overweight kills more people than being underweight. Worldwide, obesity has nearly tripled since 1975. Most alarmingly, prevalence among children is more common than ever before – even in children under the age of 5. In 2020, 39 million children under the age of 5 were overweight or obese.
Obesity is considered one of the most potent risk factors for type 2 diabetes where 80-90% of type 2 diabetes patients have been found to be overweight or obese. Your chances of developing other chronic illnesses likewise greatly increases when you’re overweight – heart disease, osteoarthritis, and cancer, to name a few. And the cost of treating these illnesses annually amounts to billions. Beyond the financial costs, the loss of quality of life is immeasurable.
This epidemic of weight gain and the consequent disease is a sign that something has gone terribly amiss. Nourishing our bodies is primary – a fundamental requirement for life. What does the distortion point to?
Luckily obesity and type 2 diabetes is completely reversible and preventable.
Structure
Day 1
Introductory video: welcome, orientation and overview.
Day 2 – 29
Self-study and forum discussion.
- Receipt of a 15-20-page booklet covering the subject in focus, including illustrations, mind maps and an appendix of further resources. You are invited to set aside time for the study of this. Depending on your experience we suggest 2-4 hours a week.
- During this month you will receive questions, knowledge bites, titbits on the subject, to help encourage and support self-directed learning.
- There will be a forum open for participants during this month to post queries, observations, thoughts, experience. Both tutors and participants will be able to
Day 30
Webinar, 90mins.
- In the first 45 minutes we cover the theory, keeping the focus on clinical presentation. This will be guided by questions that may have arisen on the forum.
- After a 15m break we return to look at case studies and to discuss the practicalities of ‘treatment’.
- The space is then open to questions, insights and discussion
Day 45
Context, discussion, 60m.
In this conversation at the kitchen table, we pan back to look at the bigger context, of what has been elucidated in our study of the clinical picture. Here we seek to investigate broader scale patterns, the socio-cultural and political as well as the emotional and psychological that may have contributed to this physical imbalance. Thus, starting from the human body, we may glean some insights into where we find ourselves as a body of humanity – and how we got here.
FAQs
Is this a self-paced course?
No – this master class has a set timeline that culminates in a webinar on Zoom on a specific date. It is expected that you should be familiar with the content in the workbook before attending the webinar.
If I can’t make the webinar, will there be a recording?
Yes – the recording will be made available for anyone who is not able to make the webinar.