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Webinar: Clear the Haze: Unravelling the gut-brain connection to conquer brain fog

Are you increasingly seeing the common patient complaint of “brain fog” impacting focus, memory, and overall cognitive function? This webinar explores the complex relationship between the gut and the brain, revealing the underlying mechanisms contributing to brain fog.
Join Integrative GP, Dr Michelle Woolhouse as she explores how digestive health significantly impacts brain health. She will uncover the bidirectional communication pathways that link these two essential systems and explain how imbalances in the gut microbiome, leaky gut, and chronic inflammation can trigger a cascade of events leading to cognitive dysfunction.
Michelle will present strategies to address digestive and systemic inflammation at its source. She will also provide an in-depth look at assessment and testing options to identify systemic contributors.
In this session, Michelle will share her expertise in complementary medicine, outlining specific nutritional, herbal and lifestyle interventions to support the gut-brain connection and help optimise cognitive performance.
Within the presentation, Michelle will detail a patient case study to demonstrate key concepts and learnings.
Designed for healthcare practitioners, this session provides evidence-based guidance to help unravel the gut-brain connection and optimise cognitive function.

Key learning objectives:
•Explore the neuro-immune-endocrine pathways connecting the gut and brain, and how disruptions in this communication lead to brain fog.
•Learn to recognise key factors such as gut dysbiosis, inflammation, mitochondrial function, nutrient deficiencies, and lifestyle stressors that contribute to cognitive decline.
•Gain insights into differentiating brain fog from other conditions, enabling accurate identification of target mechanisms.
•Understand the role of specific gut bacteria in influencing neurotransmitter production, inflammation, and overall brain health.
•Discover how specific nutrients and complementary medicines can support both gut and brain health.
•Receive actionable tips for optimising your diet, lifestyle, and supplementation to combat brain fog and enhance cognitive clarity.

Presenter: Dr Michelle Woolhouse (NIIM)

“It is not only until we explore the whole person, that true health can be found”.

Dr Michelle Woolhouse is a doctor, mind-body medicine expert, keynote speaker, Founding Medical Director of health tech start-up Vively, Podcast host and Author of The Wonder Within.

She is an expert in mind-body medicine and how by embracing the whole you can change your life, health and relationships. She educates widely in the areas of whole person health including mental health issues, such as anxiety, stress and burn-out, psycho-neuro-immunology and women’s hormones.

Dr Michelle has advanced post-graduate training in mind-body medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, nutritional and environmental medicine and holds fellowships with the Royal Australian College of GP’s (FRACGP), the Australasian society of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM) and Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine (FACNEM).

She is in high demand and consults widely due to her unique way of bringing the science and the human together.

Other ways to connect:

PODCAST

She is an ambassador and podcast host for Fx Medicine by BioCeuticals, where she discusses a broad range of integrative wellness topics. www.fxmedicine.com.au

APP

She is the medical director of Vively: an innovative app, that helps you optimise metabolic health through the use of CGM and other wearable data collectors. www.vively.com.au

BOOK (Audible, e-book and hard copy)

She is the author of The Wonder Within: a heart-led playbook for the anxious stressed and burnt-out. The Wonder Within offers you a powerful antidote to your strain and shows you a new way to relate to your fears and find the source of wellness within yourself. www.theholisticgp.com.au

RETREATS AND ONE DAY PROGRAMS

She is the co-founder of Enliven retreats. Enliven retreats runs workshops to help deliver a deeper style of medicine for women in the areas of mental and emotional optimisation.