Nutrition 224: Assessing Hormones in Clinical Practice II | CCEDseminars

Nutrition 224 — Assessing Hormones in Clinical Practice II is a two-hour PACE nutrition CE webinar building on the foundational testing framework of Nutrition 223. This advanced installment moves into clinical management — examining how to properly assess hormone imbalances, support them naturally through targeted nutrition and supplementation, select the most reliable testing protocols, and critically evaluate hormone-related claims in the marketplace.

Instructor Howard Benedikt, DC, DCBCN — President of the Chiropractic Board of Clinical Nutrition — equips chiropractors with a complete clinical system for hormone assessment and natural management. Practitioners earn 2 CE hours toward license renewal.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the protocols for proper hormone assessment and apply systematic clinical frameworks to evaluate hormonal status in practice
• Implement hormone testing into your daily practice with efficient workflows for ordering, interpreting, and communicating results to patients
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of the testing process — from sample collection and laboratory methodology to reference range interpretation
• Distinguish which hormone tests are most reliable and identify when common testing approaches provide incomplete or misleading clinical data

Course Topics

• Proper assessment of hormone imbalances: clinical patterns, symptom correlation, and functional testing interpretation
• How to support hormonal imbalances naturally: adaptogenic herbs, nutritional cofactors, dietary interventions, and lifestyle protocols
• Incorporating the correct hormone tests into practice: matching test type to clinical question and patient profile
• A critical review of fake science: evaluating evidence quality in hormone therapy, supplementation, and testing claims

Your Instructor

Howard Benedikt, DC, DCBCN is President of the Chiropractic Board of Clinical Nutrition, Board-Certified Chiropractic Clinical Nutritionist, 46+ years in practice, M.S. Human Nutrition CW Post/LIU, and Lead Clinical Nutrition Faculty at CCEDseminars. He delivers PACE- and board-approved curricula via Texas Chiropractic College, holds adjunct positions at New York Chiropractic College and Berkeley College NY, and practices in midtown Manhattan.

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