Description
Cost: Non-members: $65 | Member: $35 | Student: $15
With the heightened awareness of GLP medications and the risk of diabetes and obesity surging in the US, practitioners need a range of tools to both assess and prevent muscle loss and sarcopenia. Sarcopenia is a slow and progressive loss of muscle with age that impacts metabolism, independence and bone mass. With much of the focus in conventional care on weight loss and diabetes risk, patients may have the unintended consequences of muscle loss and sarcopenia while undergoing a medically supervised weight loss program. In this session, Dr. Jordan Roberton will give clinicians the confidence to spot sarcopenia in their patients, the tools to measure progressive muscle loss over time and a framework for supporting patients at risk of sarcopenia through nutrition and targeted supplementation.
Jordan Robertson is on a mission to elevate integrative and naturopathic medicine to the standards of care that conventional medicine practices while simultaneously solving the unpaid research-labour crisis of Naturopathic Doctors.
With a 15-year career in facilitation, research inquiry and critical appraisal at McMaster University, Jordan has taught thousands of students how to be better communicators, work in teams and research nutrition, integrative care, medicine and “space medicine” (that last one while co-facilitating a course with NASA).
Jordan is the founder of The Confident Clinician, a database, clinical decision-making tool and home for over 700 full-time members, 60 fellows in her leadership program and over 5000 clinician subscribers to her free integrative magazine, The Stacks.
She’s known for helping clinicians see their own potential, inspiring curiosity, vulnerability and “mind-changing” and for giving clinicians the push they need to become the best at what they do.
As a retired ND, she’s paving the way for clinicians to love their work, career and (EVEN) critical appraisal of research.
**This presentation is worth 1 Category 1 CE credit for Washington-licensed NDs.**
Originally presented May 2nd - 4th, 2025, at WANP's CONNECT 2025 conference.
