Micronutritional management of overweight and obesity: Part 1, theory and clinical cases

Your overweight patients go from diet to diet, lose a few kilos then regain everything, sometimes more, and end up feeling guilty. This training invites you to change paradigm by revisiting the real metabolic causes of weight gain, to understand, step by step, why "eat less, move more" fails and how to build coherent, personalised and genuinely physiological management.

What you will learn

• Why hyperinsulinism and insulin resistance are the central cause of overweight and obesity, and how to reason from this root rather than from symptoms alone.
• How to screen for metabolic syndrome in the practice from waist circumference, fasting glucose, triglycerides, HDL and blood pressure, and how to assess insulin sensitivity (HOMA, QUICKI).
• How to build nutritional interventions tailored to the degree of insulin resistance, working on carbohydrate quality (glycaemic index and load), the rehabilitation of good lipids and dietary restriction windows.
• Which micronutrients support insulin signalling, glucose metabolism and the mitochondria, and in which situations to consider assessment then targeted supplementation.
• How to spot the other metabolic locks that block weight loss, in particular the neurotransmitter, digestive and cardiometabolic profiles, as well as the thyroid, chronic stress and sleep debt.

On the programme

• The clinical observation and the revision of the obesity paradigm, beyond BMI and the simple energy balance.
• The main pathophysiological mechanisms of the terrain, low-grade inflammation, oxidative stress, glycation and carbonyl stress, acid-base balance.
• Glucose metabolism, lipogenesis and lipolysis, the role of insulin as the storage hormone, glycogen, gluconeogenesis and ketogenesis.
• The metabolic syndrome, its definition, criteria and link with cardiometabolic risk and type 2 diabetes.
• Low-carbohydrate and high-fat dietary models, intermittent fasting and eating windows, as well as the place of prebiotic fibres, fructose and sweeteners.
• The micronutrients of interest, chromium, zinc, selenium, magnesium, omega-3, vitamin D, cinnamon, vitamins B1, B3, B6, alpha-lipoic acid, glutathione, L-carnosine, berberine.
• The weight-loss resistance profiles inspired by the functional approach, neurotransmitter (dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin), digestive (candidiasis, metabolic endotoxaemia, Akkermansia, dysbiosis), cardiometabolic and micronutritional deficiencies.
• The often overlooked aggravating factors, thyroid and reverse T3, functional hypercortisolism and chronic stress, sleep debt, hepatic detoxification and physical activity.
• Clinical cases to link theory to consultation reasoning and train you to formulate hypotheses and strategies.

Who it is for

This training is for healthcare professionals who support patients with overweight, obesity or weight-loss resistance, in particular doctors, pharmacists, as well as practitioners trained or training in micronutrition and functional medicine.

At the end of the training

You will be able to reframe overweight and obesity as a multifactorial problem whose central axis is insulin, and identify the metabolic blocks that coexist in the same patient. You will be able to screen for metabolic syndrome, assess insulin resistance and choose the relevant assessments to personalise your approach. You will have a clear reasoning framework to offer nutritional interventions and supplementation tailored to each patient's profile, in a logic of progressive support and therapeutic alliance.