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The Importance of Nutrition in Optimising Cardiometabolic Health

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Online Webinar

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1.5 hours

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Dr. Brad McEwen

Optimum cardiometabolic health is central for overall health and wellbeing. Optimum nutrition plays an essential role in improving cardiometabolic health. Poor nutrition is one of the most critical risk factors for chronic disease. Cardiometabolic syndrome represents a cluster of interrelated metabolic conditions that are risk factors for cardiovascular disease, such as vascular calcification, arterial stiffness, insulin resistance, altered platelet function and coagulation, increased blood pressure, altered glucose metabolism, and dyslipidaemia.

Cardiometabolic syndrome is a proinflammatory state driven by multiple factors, including chronic inflammation, oxidative stress, and immune cell activation. Research shows that cardiometabolic syndrome is linked with an increased risk of coronary heart disease, ischaemic stroke, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnoea, chronic kidney disease, cardiovascular mortality, and total mortality. Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide.

Identifying and treating the underlying causes, background activity, and triggers are crucial in managing cardiometabolic syndrome. Reducing the impact of cardiometabolic syndrome is of significant public health importance. Active folate (5-MTHF), Menaquinone-7 (Vitamin K2), Ubiquinol, Omega-3, among other nutrients (even chocolate) are important for improving cardiometabolic health.

Topics covered in this webinar include:
  • Overview of cardiometabolic syndrome and comorbidities
  • Causes and risk factors of cardiometabolic syndrome
  • Pathophysiology, signs, and symptoms of cardiometabolic syndrome
  • Nutrients for optimising cardiometabolic health
  • Clinical considerations and nutritional medicine prescribing for cardiometabolic syndrome

Join Dr. Brad McEwen, PhD, in ‘The Importance of Nutrition in Optimising Cardiometabolic Health.’

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MEET YOUR PRESENTER

Dr Brad McEwen

PhD, MHealthSc(HumNutr), MPH, BHSc 
Dr. Brad McEwen PhD is a leader in preventive and personalised health, particularly in the area of cardiometabolic health and mental and cognitive health. He is an award-winning naturopath, nutritionist, herbalist, educator, researcher, and mentor with over 24 years of clinical experience. He has a PhD from University of Sydney, Master of Health Science (Human Nutrition) and Master of Public Health from Deakin University, among other qualifications in nutrition and sports medicine. He has a passion for teaching and has been educating in nutritional and naturopathic medicine and the health sciences for over 20 years. He has extensive experience in presenting seminars, webinars, and at conferences nationwide and internationally (including United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Japan, New Zealand). He is an advocate for optimum health through nutrition and lifestyle medicine.

Brad has a passion for research. He has numerous original research and review articles published in peer-reviewed journals. He is a peer reviewer for international journals. His research interests include the effects of diet, nutrition, and lifestyle medicine on cardiovascular disease, cardiometabolic syndrome, depression, anxiety, polycystic ovary syndrome, endometriosis, cognition, stress, type 2 diabetes, chronic disease. Dr. Brad has special interest in increasing public health, increasing and improving access to health services, overall chronic disease prevention, increasing access to nutritional foods and information for all schools and universities, and health equity.

He has received numerous national and international awards, including the Eberhard F. Mammen Young Investigator Award (an international award in thrombosis and haemostasis), Excellence in Practice Lecturer Researcher of the Year award, and the Dorothy Hall Memorial Award for Practitioner Excellence (an award for the advancement of natural medicine in Australia). Dr. Brad has been a multiple finalist for Practitioner of the Year, Researcher of the Year, and Educator/Lecturer of the Year.
References
  1. McEwen B. Vitamin K2 (Menaquinone-7): The Vital Nutrient for the Prevention and Management of Chronic Disease. JACNEM 2024; 43(1):8-21.
  2. McEwen B. The Role of Folate in Health: A Snapshot. JATMS 2023; 29(1): 24-28.
  3. McEwen BJ. The Cardiometabolic Benefits of Chocolate: Can Chocolate be the Elusive Elixir to Optimum Health? Adv Integ Med 2018; 5(2): 80-81.
  4. McEwen B. The Impact of Diet on Cardiometabolic Syndrome, JATMS 2018; 24(2): 72-77.
  5. McEwen BJ. Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase (MTHFR): Mythology or Polymorphism(ology)? Adv Integ Med 2016;3(3):79-81.
  6. McEwen BJ. The Influence of Diet and Nutrients on Platelet Function. Sem Thromb Haemost 2014; 40(2):214-26.
  7. Phillips CL, McEwen BJ, et al. Effects of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure on Coagulability in Obstructive Sleep Apnoea: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Crossover Study. Thorax 2012; 67(7): 639-644.
  8. McEwen B, et al. Effect of Omega-3 Fish Oil on Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes. Diabetes Educator 2010; 36(4):565-84.