Women’s health

About the Webinar:

The updated USDA Dietary Guidelines hold substantial influence over national nutrition policy, clinical counseling, school meals, and public health programming. For women, whose nutritional needs shift significantly across the lifespan and are closely tied to reproductive health, bone integrity, cardiometabolic risk, and hormonal regulation, these recommendations play a central role in shaping long-term health outcomes. Despite being positioned as evidence-based, the current guidelines contain notable gaps, inconsistencies, and areas where emerging research on women’s physiology and chronic disease prevention is insufficiently reflected. The purpose of this webinar is to provide a critical evaluation of the latest USDA Dietary Guidelines and shed light on their impact on women’s health. Participants will examine where the guidelines align with current evidence and where they diverge. The session will highlight overlooked research, discuss potential consequences of existing recommendations, and offer alternative evidence-based strategies that better support women across life stages.

Registration Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/JS75SL3VRpe3UHMKjTX31Q

About this Webinar:

The answer to almost any issue is to be better skilled at creating and maintaining boundaries. The research shows that creating and maintaining healthy boundaries leads to better emotional regulation, more effective communication, feeling less anxious and depressed, more satisfying relationships, having more confidence and feeling less overwhelmed. This presentation will teach women health professionals what boundaries really are (most people have this wrong) and how to apply them to be more calm and energized in both your personal and professional life.

Registration Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/Vy5U1sNAT66LtgGagsRG4Q

About this Webinar:

There is a need for health providers to be ‘trauma-literate’. Patients who present with stress- and trauma-related health patterns, especially those linked to conflict, displacement, and gender-based violence require a more thoughtful approach. This includes helping women health providers recognise triggers within themselves, especially if they too have a history of trauma.

Attendees will learn:

• What is Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care
• How Trauma is linked to Women’s Health
• How to Provide Trauma-Informed Care for Women in a Lifestyle Medicine Consultation

Registration Link:

https://forms.gle/fquGMPWfvN2BUkuA8

Webinar Purpose:

Maternal cardiovascular health strongly predicts both adverse pregnancy outcomes and long-term cardiovascular risk. Sleep health is recognized as one of the American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8 and is a major, underused lever to protect pregnancy. Yet during pregnancy, sleep quality declines across gestation and can remain disrupted postpartum due to physiological and social changes. On top of this baseline disruption, upper airway obstruction and pregnancy-onset sleep-disordered breathing often present not as “classic” obstructive sleep apnea, but as a spectrum. Common snoring may still fragment sleep and amplify sympathetic activation, fatigue, and cardiometabolic strain. Current models emphasize lifestyle changes that can be difficult to implement during pregnancy. This webinar reframes sleep as a modifiable clinical target. 

What Attendees Will Learn:

• Why recognize the spectrum of airway-related sleep disruption in pregnancy,
• How to identify those at highest risk,
• Why consider practical, non-invasive management strategies to improve maternal sleep

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/hpBq6KGe2UqVjsyT7

Purpose:

To help attendees translate complex health information into practical, actionable habits.

What Attendees Will Learn:

• How to critically evaluate health information and avoid misinformation.
• Simple strategies to implement research-backed health practices in daily life.

Purpose:

This webinar aims to provide health professionals with a comprehensive understanding of how environmental chemical exposures uniquely impact women’s health throughout various life stages, emphasizing the importance of recognizing and mitigating these risks in clinical practice.

Key Learning Points:

• Understand how environmental chemical exposures specifically affect women’s health across different life stages, including adolescence, reproductive age, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and menopause.
• Identify common environmental chemicals and endocrine disruptors associated with significant health risks for women.
• Learn practical strategies to reduce harmful chemical exposures in daily life and clinical settings, supporting women’s health and wellness.

The Role of Mastrescence and Patrescence in Lifestyle Medicine for Women’s Health by Dr Kristal Lau

Purpose:

Shining the spotlight on the “Cinderella” of Women’s Health – The Postpartum Period: Why This Life Stage Matters For a Woman’s Lifespan

What Attendees Will Learn:

• The physiological, physical, and social changes + challenges related to postpartum & the effect of these on women’s health
• Who are the Stakeholders / Players in Postpartum Health?
• Overview of cultural postpartum practices around the world + introduction to the Chinese postpartum Confinement practice
• Why Lifestyle Medicine is a great tool to Promote Postpartum Health.