Performance without Pain

Kathryne Pirtle and Dr. John Turner, DC, DIBCN, CCSP

Since 2004, Kathryne Pirtle and Dr. Turner have presented seminars to orchestras, dance companies, university music and dance students, in Autism conferences, public schools and in lecture series in public forums such as libraries and health food stores.They have also given radio and television interviews throughout the country. Their engaging  presentations advance an understanding of the necessary nutritional elements that help heal the human body and mind to promote a higher level of health; factors which contribute to the ability of accomplishing life goals.

Optimal Nutrition for Performance and Career Longevity--We discuss the integral relationship between diet and a predisposition to injury, and offer a nutritional program that can help heal the digestive system and build the body to be injury resistant and more resilient. Our lecture will provide information about the dietary relationships of ailments of the digestive system and malnourishment to recurring inflammatory and muscle weakness conditions, such as chronic tendonitis, pain in arms, neck, back, shoulders and legs and embouchure shaking--a form of focal dystonia. For symphony orchestras, ballet companies, sports teams and university music and dance schools.

Seminars for the General Public 

Creating Optimal Health with Traditional Foods--Learn how our modern food supply and nutritional dictates are causing common health problems. Find out how to determine facts from trends and what foods best build optimal health.

A Practical Dietary Plan for Overcoming Chronic Illness--An in-depth seminar, based on the infallible work of Dr. Weston A. Price, which addresses recovery from chronic illness through focusing on healing the digestive system and reversing malnutrition through specific nutrient-dense, easy-to-digest foods that build health.

Recovering from Malnutrition Associated with Digestive Disorders--Dr. Turner and Kathryne Pirtle discuss the problem of malnutrition with regard to grain intolerance, Celiac disease, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's and other digestive ailments. Healing is difficult with malnutrition. Learn about the superior advantage that traditional nutrient-dense, enzyme-rich foods offer to correcting malnutrition and rebuilding health.

Beyond a "Gluten-Free" Diet--Learn how a gluten-free diet is just the first step to recovering from Celiac disease and grain intolerance. Understand how following common nutritional advice can perpetuate digestion problems and deter recovery, despite following a strict gluten-free diet. Discover how eating a nutrient-dense, enzyme-rich traditional-foods diet best corrects digestive disorders and malnourishment, and is a superior approach to building optimal health.

Acid Reflux--a National Epidemic and a Precursor to Chronic Illness: Treating Acid Reflux with Traditional Foods

There are endless radio, television, internetand magazine ads dedicated to medication that treats acid-reflux and otherrelated digestive complaints. In fact, 60 million Americans have acid-refluxand many people have acid reflux without knowing it. In addition to the typicalsymptom of acid-regurgitation, other less-known symptoms include hoarseness,belching, chronic throat clearing and sore throat, persistent cough, difficultyswallowing, nausea, asthma and wheezing and persistent hiccups in adults.  In infants and children, frequent earinfections, excessive crying, nausea with or without vomiting, excessivecoughing, respiratory problems, refusing food, excessive belching and burping.

 Whatis the cause of this massive increase in GERD? There has been a 56% increase in the last few years of medicine for acid-reflux and digestive disorders in infants and children from 0-4 years old!Should our entire population succumb to these medications that magically heal the symptoms of these discomforts, thereby inadvertently expanding the wealth of drug companies? Could it be that there is a great danger in the purple pill solution--that the purple pill is the wrong answer to your health challenge?In fact, what you need to know is that untreated or incorrectly treated acid reflux may lead to serious degenerative or even life-threatening illness.

Dr. Turner and Kathryne Pirtle discuss aneffective approach to the treatment of acid reflux with traditional foods.Through a diet of nutrient-dense, easy-to-digest foods from pastured animalsand wild-caught fish, adequate vitamin A and D, and cultured foods that correctpoor intestinal flora, acid reflux and intestinal damage can be permanentlyhealed.

Seminar for Families of Children with Autism

Healthy Bodies/Healthy Minds: Harnessing the Power of Traditional, Nutrient-Dense Foods--the Keys to Maximizing Treatment Success for Autism

Through the timeless work of Dr. Weston A. Price, whose extensive research of healthy populations worldwide found that "All disease is caused from malnourishment," and that of Hippocrates (460-370 BC), who stated that "All diseases begin in the gut," we can better understand the root cause of the alarming increase in the numbers of children diagnosed with autism. Dr. John Turner and Kathryne Pirtle discuss the relationship between the principles of optimal nutrition for human health and an effective approach to the treatment of autism.

Discover why some common nutritional advice can perpetuate digestive problems, leaky-gut and malnourishment, which can deter the progress of reversing autism. Learn how focusing on a diet of nutrient-dense, enzyme-rich, traditional foods is a superior approach to improving both the physical and mental health of children with autism.

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