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Optimizing Immunity - Through Nutrition, Sleep, Exercise and Nutritional Supplementation
Length: 00:56:00
Optimizing Immunity through Nutrients, Sleep, Exercise and nutritional Supplements.
This lecture will review the importance of sleep, exercise and our eating habits. How foods impact our health, and building our immunity.Understanding how Immunity can be impacted by modified lifestyle factors. Being able to prioritize lifestyle recommendations to our patients that can improve their immunity. Understanding the importance of inflammation, glucose intolerance/ metabolic syndrome and the connection to COVID vulnerabilities. Understanding other ways that food impacts our immunity. Being able to provide lifestyle recommendations to our patients that can improve their resiliency in the face of the COVID pandemic.
Dr. Wu has no actual or potential conflict of interest in relation to this program or presentation.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). The Florida Osteopathic Medical Association (FOMA) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.
GRIEVANCE POLICY: The FOMA strives to provide continuing medical education programs to fulfill the needs of the attendees and to meet the AOA Uniform Guidelines and AOA Accreditation Requirements. Comments, questions, or complaints should be forwarded to FOMA Executive Director Steve Winn, by calling the FOMA Office at 850-878-7364 or by mail to FOMA, 2544 Blairstone Pines Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32301, or by email to admin@foma.org
Keelyn Wu
Keelyn Wu, DO began his study of Osteopathic Medicine in 1991 at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, Maine. Dr. Wu completed his internship at Eastmoreland Hospital in Portland Oregon in 1996 and went on to complete his residency in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine at St. Barnabas Hospital in New York in 1998. He has been practicing Osteopathy in the Portland, Maine area since 1998. He is board certified in Neuromuscular Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and has consulting privileges at Mercy Hospital. Dr. Wu has always had a special interested in nutrition, digestion and the immune system. His interests led him to further training in Functional Medicine which addresses the underlying causes of disease, using a systems-oriented approach and engaging both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership. He is an active member and has completed the practitioner’s certification program for the IFM (Institute of Functional Medicine). He is an active member of ILADS (Institute for Lyme Disease and Associated Diseases) and ISEAI (International Society of Environmentally Acquired Illness) and continues to participate in educational opportunities from these and other similar organizations that are oriented towards searching for the root cause of illness and treating the whole person. In addition to his full time practice he is involved in teaching osteopathic skills, principles and philosophy to both medical students and physicians. He is also one of several local osteopathic physicians who volunteer at the Portland Osteopathic Children’s Clinic. He and his wife live in Freeport and have two children.
