"Anti-Aging Revisited: How Toxicants Play a Role in Chronic Degenerative Fatalities – A Problem/Solution Approach"

Presenter: Lyn Patrick, ND
Original Date: September 29, 2024

Chronic degenerative disease is the most powerful determinant of aging, disease, and mortality. “Anti-aging” strategies need to focus on the true causes of cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and autoimmunity. The toxicant exposure and body burden perspective can shine a very bright light on all of these chronic conditions and understanding which toxicants are involved, how to test for their presence and interpret lab results related to toxicant exposure as well as how to address both current exposures and the chronic accumulation that makes up the total body burden, is crucial in intervening in what is a growing problem of both lowered life expectancy in the Western World and chronic disease that contributes to both aging and loss of quality of life.

Bio: Lyn Patrick, ND, graduated from Bastyr University in 1984 with a doctorate in naturopathic medicine and has been in private practice in Arizona and Colorado for 35 years. She is a published author of numerous articles in peer-reviewed medical journals, a past Contributing Editor for Alternative Medicine Review, and recently authored a chapter in the newly released textbook Clinical Environmental Medicine (Elsevier 2019). She speaks internationally on environmental medicine, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, endocrine disruption, metal toxicology and other topics. She is currently Faculty for the Metabolic Medicine Institute Fellowship in collaboration with George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. She is also a founding partner and presenter at the Environmental Health Symposium, an annual international environmental medicine conference based in the United States. After the passing of her longtime colleague Dr. Walter Crinnion she is continuing to educate primary care providers in the area of environmental medicine through the EMEI Global platform and the EMEI Review podcast. In her spare time, she enjoys biking, hiking and kayaking the mountains, lakes, and rivers of southwestern Colorado.

NUNM is accredited by the North American Naturopathic Continuing Education Council (NANCEAC). This activity qualifies for 1.0 General, 0.25 Pharmacology, 0.25 Ethics (1.5 CEUs Total).