ABOUT THE EVENT

Earn 4 Continuing Education credits (via RACE) by participating in this exclusive virtual program, designed to enhance your clinical knowledge and skills from the comfort of your own space.

Session 1: The Veterinary Exposome: Reimagining Wellness Medicine - Building Resilience Before Disease Begins

• Explain the veterinary exposome and its role in influencing lifelong health, wellness, and chronic disease risk in dogs and cats.
• Evaluate nutrition, lifestyle, environmental, microbial, and behavioral factors during wellness visits to identify opportunities for individualized preventive care.
• Apply evidence-based wellness strategies, including nutritional assessment, physical activity, gastrointestinal health support, and appropriate supplementation, to build resilience and support long-term health outcomes.

Session 2: The Gut–Liver Connection: Nutritional Strategies for Lifelong Health

• Describe the Gut–Liver Axis: Explain the physiological pathways that connect the microbiome, the intestinal barrier, bile acid metabolism, and hepatic function. 
• Recognize Modifiable Factors Affecting Healthspan: Identify how dysbiosis, impaired digestion, altered bile flow, nutrient insufficiency, and chronic inflammation may disrupt gut–liver function. 
• Apply Longevity-Focused Nutritional Strategies: Use whole-food nutrients, botanicals, digestive enzymes, probiotics, and targeted enteric and hepatic support to promote lifelong resilience.

Session 3: Fighting Aging, One Inflammatory Component at A Time

• Understand how inflammation affects aging and degeneration 
• Learn how decreasing inflammation affects multiple body systems 
• Learn valuable tools to use to help your patients live longer healthier lives 

Session 4: Cognitively Inclined: Supporting the Aging Canine Brain

• Describe the pathophysiology, prevalence, clinical signs, and impacts of canine cognitive dysfunction and age-related brain changes on behavior, learning, memory, and physical function.
• Identify factors that influence cognitive aging and develop proactive, compassionate care strategies that support the quality of life of geriatric dogs and their families.
• Apply evidence-based nutrition, enrichment, and integrative management approaches, including targeted nutritional and herbal interventions, to help support cognitive health and complement traditional veterinary care.

DATE & TIMES

8:00 AM - 12:30 PM PST

9:00 AM - 1:30 PM MST

11:00 AM - 3:30 PM EST

CANCELLATION POLICY:

Attendees must cancel 24 hours prior to the event in order to obtain a full refund. There will be no refund provided if the attendee fails to attend.