Niki Gratrix – a nutritionist who has blogged on gluten issues on Health Rising- has put together an almost week-long online “Abundant Energy Summit” focused on alternative approaches to chronic fatigue. The summit reflects Niki’s eclectic approach to ME/CFS and similar disorders which is focused on functional medicine and nutrition with a special emphasis on the gut and mind/body and energy enhancing techniques.
The Abundant Energy Summit contains diverse approaches used by alternative health practitioners to combat fatigue.
The online summit, which runs from Aug 24 to the 30th, is free of charge.
The Summit is not for everybody. If you’re not into alternative medicine don’t even think about it. If you’re interested in exploring how the very diverse community of alternative medicine practitioners deal with chronic fatigue, however, it might be for you.
The talks run the gamut from Dr. Jason’s talk on “Understanding and Differentiating Pathological and Non-Pathological “Fatigue”’ to Lynne McTaggert’s “Physics Behind Consciousness and the Power of Intention for Optimum Energy”.
Dr. Jeffrey Bland will talk on “Moving from Conventional to Functional Thinking to Build Great Health and Energy!” while Dr. Myhill talks on “Rebooting Mitochondrial Function and Nutrient Status for Optimum Energy!”
The thirty talks include ones on zapping emotional energy vampires, diet, detoxification, integral psychology for optimum health, thyroid dysfunction, energy medicine, balancing neurotransmitters, limbic system remodeling, psychoneuroimmunology and even earthing.
ME/CFS experts such as Dr. Leonard Jason PhD, Dr. Sarah Myhill, Patricia Fennel will speak. Other familiar names to people with ME/CFS and/or FM might include Ashok Gupta, functional medicine guru Dr. Jeffrey Bland, mind/body practitioner Annie Hopper, Dr. Vodjani, Dr. Klinghardt and gluten expert Dr. Tom O’Bryan.
You can register for the free online summit using this link.
Health Rising is an affiliate of the summit – which means we can benefit from it, although I’m not exactly sure how. 🙂
It’s going to be an interesting ride.
Thanks for posting this Cort. Do you know how it works? All the website says is that it’s free and available from August 24-31. Are all of the speaker’s videos available everyday during those days, or does it happen on a schedule? Is it interactive? Lastly, if they want to help us, why on earth are they only giving us 7 days? 7 months may not even be long enough for some of us!
Hi – you simply register in the registration box? Where it says first name and email – that’s it. When it starts you’ll then be notified.
Schedule: http://abundantenergysummit.com/schedule/
There have been many online summits like this already. Usually you can watch each interview for 24h. You can buy the videos, audios and transcripts to keep watching the interviews after the free online event is over. The summits are more organised than free podcast interviews. It’s a way to earn some money for the work people put into the organisation. Anyway if you don’t have the money or don’t want to spend it you can usually find similar information in free podcast interviews all over the web.
Most online summits are not interactive. Sean Croxton has organised some good ones (The Thyroid Sessions, The Digestion Sessions…) and added live Q&As which are great.
Here’s a place to look for upcoming online summits: http://freesummits.com/
As far as I know this is the first online summit about chronic fatigue. But there are also some free podcasts focusing on CFS (e.g. http://spoonieradio.libsyn.com/)
Hope that helps! Sorry for the long post…
Thanks Peter for the overview
Thank you very much Peter for the information and links. Our town just got broadband and I’ve only been connected since last month. I hadn’t been able to access audio or video on dial-up through our poor quality phone lines; so this is all new to me. I appreciate your help and the additional sites to explore! It’s best when I can do things when I’m able and not on someone else’s schedule, and when I can also have repeated exposure over time; since it’s hard to take in and remember a lot of new information at once. I’m glad to know that I may be able to buy videos, audios or transcripts if that becomes relevant. Thanks again!
I signed up through this link. All of the presentations are available for 24 hours on the day they’re scheduled.
Once you’ve signed up, you get to a page with the schedule, so there’s plenty of time to plan your viewing.
Where is the summit being held and where is registration if you would like to attend in person? In closing, this site is absolutely the best with up to date info
Donna I think these kinds of summits are done entirely on line. The speakers are speaking, I think, different places. Niki can correct me if I’m wrong.