Part of our mission at Metagenics Institute is to create relevant, high-quality educational content to support lifestyle medicine practitioners. With a focus on optimizing immune health, these materials serve as foundation resources for use in your Functional (or lifestyle) medicine practice.
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Download only what you need on demand! Each PDF is available separately for you to customize your experience with your patients. The content in these handouts build on one another and can be used in sequence or independently, depending on the needs of your patient and the clinical focus you choose.
A brief overview of the components of the immune system and the lifestyle strategies to consider as part of an immune health plan.
This handout focuses on food sources of essential vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients that have immune health benefits and provides tips on incorporating dietary color and diversity.
With emphasis on colorful, phytonutrient-rich foods, this resource provides a food list and guidelines on creating an ideal plate for optimal immune support.
A checklist of phytonutrient-rich foods with educational content on snacking, portion and serving sizes, food storage, and shopping tips. Patients can use this resource to create weekly meal plans.
This handout provides suggestions on healthy habits to incorporate into a daily routine, including details on the impact of food timing and time-restricted feeding protocols.
This handout provides suggestions on healthy habits to incorporate into a daily routine, including details on the impact of food timing and time-restricted feeding protocols.
Based on the signs and symptoms list, as well as pertinent labs, this guide outlines essential and core bioactive recommendations that may be indicated for immune maintenance and during acute infections. Use this guide to develop personalized, immune-supportive plans to optimize immune health and prevent infection.
This infographic walks through the many processes involved in a healthy immune response in addition to highlighting therapeutic goals and supportive bioactives along the way.
Many people believe healthy eating is expensive but that is necessarily not true. Use this tool as a myth buster since it provides a breakdown and cost analysis between a phytonutrient rich diet vs. the Standard American Diet using a 1 day sample menu.
For the practitioner who wants to dive into the details, this document highlights the top mechanisms for each bioactive identified in the Clinical Assessment Guide.
To help ease the stress of meal planning and maintain healthy eating habits, we’ve created a two-week meal plan, focusing on phytonutrient-rich recipes, for you to share with your patients.
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Metagenics Institute is a trusted, peer-to-peer, evidence-based educational resource for nutrition and personalized medicine. At Metagenics Institute, we translate credible research with scientific integrity into innovative and actionable clinical decision-making. Metagenics Institute supports a diverse practitioner base to optimize patient outcomes by shifting existing paradigms in healthcare. Our mission is to transform healthcare by inspiring and educating practitioners, and their patients, about personalized lifestyle medicine.