Deanna Minich
American College of Nutrition, USA
Biography
Deanna Minich is an internationally-recognized wellness and lifestyle medicine expert, creative visionary and author. In 2014, she launched the Certified Food & Spirit Practitioner Program and has a diverse, well-rounded experience in the field of nutrition including clinical practice, research, product formulation, marketing, writing and education. She received her nutrition education during her Doctoral (PhD) study at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands where she researched essential fatty acid absorption and metabolism and from her Master’s Degree (MS) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she studied carotenoids and oxidative stress. She has authored five books on health and wellness and over fifteen scientific publications. Currently, she is senior advisor to the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute in Seattle, WA and is adjunct faculty for the Institute for Functional Medicine, the Maryland University of Integrative Health and University of Western States. Her passion is teaching a whole-self approach to nourishment and bridging the gaps between science, spirituality and art in medicine.
Abstract
Abstract : Nutrition and lifestyle medicine for women’s health