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Functional Sports Medicine: The Foundational Masterclass
1.1 Course Introduction
- The Picasso Bull Analogy: Reframing Our Thinking Around Tests and Indicators
- The Simplicity of the Complex: How to Look for the Key Elements
- From Experts and Experience: Citations for This Foundational Course
2.1 Systems vs Mechanisms: An Introduction to Systems Biology
2.2 Looking at Humans as Systems, Not Mechanisms
2.3 What is Evidence-Based Practise?
3.1 The Person, Not the Condition: Asking the 3 Why’s
4.1 Understanding The Disease-Health Continuum
4.2 How Dysfunction Manifests
5.1 Understanding Homeostasis, Allostatic Response, and Allostatic Load
5.2 The 5 Categories of Primary Metabolic Imbalances
5.3 What Triggers Commonly Challenge Homeostasis?
5.4 The Impact of Chronic Inflammation on Athletic Performance
6.1 A Symptom is an Opportunity: How to Assess Chronic Inflammation
6.2 The Chronic Inflammation Markers: Why Guess When You Can Test?
6.3 Global Solutions for Treating Chronic Inflammation
7.1 Understanding The Body’s Energy Systems
7.2 Mitochondria 101: An Anatomical and Functional Overview
7.3 Understanding the Signs and Symptoms of Energy Dysfunction
7.4 The Markers of Energy Dysfunction
7.5 Global Energy Solutions in Practice
8.1 Are we toxic?
8.2 Detoxification 101
8.3 Understanding How Toxins Hurt Us
8.4 Looking for The Symptoms and Signs of Toxicity
8.5 The Markers of Detoxification Dysfunction: What Tests to Use and How to Read Them
8.6 Global Solutions to Address Toxicity
9.1 Understanding The Immune System Response
9.2 How The Immune System Causes Chronic Inflammation
9.3 The Right Tests: The Biggest Markers of Immune Dysfunction
9.4 Leaky Gut and Food Sensitivities
9.5 Essential Solutions: How to Reestablish the Terrain While Minimizing Damage
10.1 Understanding The Hormonal Systems
10.2 The Effects and Indicators of Chronic Inflammation on Hormonal Systems
10.3 Thyroid Function 101
10.4 Essential Labs For Assessing Thyroid Function
10.5 Global Solutions for Thyroid Dysfunction
10.6 Adrenal Function 101
10.7 Essential Labs for Adrenal Function
10.8 Global Solutions for Adrenal Dysfunction
10.9 The Effects of Chronic Inflammation on the Sex Hormones: The Famine Response
10.7 Markers of Hormonal Dysfunction Part 1: Male Sex Hormones
10.8 Markers of Hormonal Dysfunction Part 2: Female Sex Hormones
10.9 Global Solutions for Sex Hormone Dysfunction
10.9 Vitamin D 101
Chronic inflammation has a significant impact on how the brain works, due to its effect on neurotransmitter balance and pain sensitization. Here we will look at neurotransmitter physiology and measurement and interpretation.
11.1 Neuroskeletal Systems: The Link Between Mental Recovery and Pain Management
11.2 What are Neurotransmitters?
11.3 The Effects of Chronic Pain in the Inflammation Triangle
11.4 The Signs and Symptoms of Hormonal Imbalance
11.5 The Markers of Neurotransmitter Dysfunction and The Organic Acid Test
11.6 Global Solutions to Decrease Inflammation in the Brain
Here we assess the quality of recovery and sleep, in particular: how do we analyze and interpret wearable data, such as heart rate variability (HRV) and sleep?
12.1 The Science of Stress: Understanding Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
12.2 How to Measure HRV
12.3 How to Use HRV
15.1 Putting it All Together: A Look at Some Sample Cases
15.2 Back to the Beginning: Stressors, Metabolic Responses, and Other Indicators
15.3 Growing as a Medical Practitioner: The 4 levels of Intellect
B1. The Allergy Devastation: Understanding Histamine Sensitivity and Histaminase
B2. How to Analyze Sleep Data
B3. Compression
B4. Embracing the Cold: Ice Baths Versus Cryo Chambers
B5. Relaxation Mechanism of acute defense mobilization against extreme stimuli (RMAD)
This module is a one-stop look at the tests discussed in previous modules. Here we will look at the most vital tests we should be conducting, and we will consider when it is time not to test.
1. To Test or Not to Test: Understanding When Testing is Helpful or Harmful
2. Blood tests
3. Saliva tests
4. Urine tests
5. Stool test
In this module we’ll talk about the current genetic abnormalities that can be measured accurately that influence an individual’s propensity towards certain conditions away from others.
14.1 Understanding Genetics and Epigenetics
14.2 A Look at Environmental Triggers
Here’s what’s included
- Lifetime access to all modules, including bonus modules, and updated modules.
- Live weekly group coaching call. One half of the call is discussing the homework as well as a Q&A session.
- During the Live weekly group coaching call, members will have direct access to Ara and have him interpret the bloodwork analysis for themselves or their clients
- 12 month access to live calls.
- 4 month long program.
- Weekly homework assignments to ensure that you understand and apply the knowledge that you are learning.
Investment - $3,000
Testimonials
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Justin Rose
Xander Schauffele
Mackenzie McDonald
Trevor Immelman
Sean Foley
Anna Nordqvist
Lydia Ko
Jennifer Brady
This Masterclass is everything that I have to know!
This Masterclass is everything that I have and know! I’m proud of it and know that it can unlock the door to getting greater results for your clients and creating more impact in your life. However, I also know that it might not be for everybody. So here’s my no BS guarantee. If after going through the experience, participating in the webinars, and putting the work in you feel like the Masterclass did not live up to your expectations, I will happily refund you 100% of your investment.
About Dr. Ara
Dr. Ara Suppiah is one of the world’s most trusted medical pioneers in professional sports and the founder of the Functional Sports Medicine Institute based on decades of groundbreaking research and discovering how to solve the unmet needs of world-class athletes to achieve maximum health and vitality to enable sustained high performance.
Dr. Ara is a highly sought-after personal physician on the PGA, LPGA Tour, ATP and WTA Tour, a practicing ER Physician, Chief Medical Analyst on NBC Sports Golf Channel, author and speaker.
Dr. Ara single-handedly pioneered his Functional Sports Medicine model using a holistic, proprietary approach by leveraging the sciences of functional medicine, allopathic medicine and Eastern medical philosophies to limit the amount of inflammation within athletes’ bodies. In this process, he has proven the critical importance of lab work and wearable data interpretation as the foundation of a strategic training and supplementation plan for athletes.
A lifelong athlete, Dr. Ara is on a mission to change the way people think about working with athletes. Dr. Ara believes that one doesn’t need to be a physician to analyze lab work results to develop a training and supplementation plan for athletes. Dr. Ara’s Functional Sports Medicine™ Masterclass levels the playing field by providing non-physicians additional credibility and a competitive edge to retain and gain athlete clients.
