What’s Really Making You Crazy?

With Melissa Layne
As the female body changes due to progesterone and estrogen levels, so does stress, sleep and mood patterns. It is not all in the mind! This session covers the how’s and why’s regarding hormonal changes that affect our personalities and daily lives. Together, we will review the research on surviving the stress and moody witch periods when our bodies change with some practical and proven modifications.

Practical Guide to Nutrition, Hormones & Metabolism

With Melissa Layne
This practical program provides participants with cutting-edge information on nutrition, hormones and metabolism. In easy-to-understand terms, learn how each macronutrient operates within energy pathways and how digestive and reproductive hormones affect metabolism. The body’s adaptations to an incomplete diet and/or disease and the physiological consequences during various exercise regimes will be addressed during this session. You receive a handout detailing simple nutritional calculations and recommendations that fitness professionals can incorporate into a nutritional counseling session while remaining within the scope of practice. This comprehensive certification also provides information pertaining to Nutritional Health History Forms with prescriptive dietary suggestions that can be used immediately.