Common drug nutrient interactions
Many common prescription drugs have adverse nutritional consequences
Thursday, December 14, 2015, 2.00pm-3.00pm AEDT
In her presentation Lesley details the following aspects of drugs and their nutritional side effects:
Interaction fundamentals: Pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic with examples
Drug-nutrient interactions
–PPI drugs and magnesium
–ACE inhibitors and ARBs and zinc
Drug-herb interactions
Watching this presentation and completing the assessment may contribute towards assessable Continuing Professional Development points.
About the presenter
Dr Lesley Braun is Director of the Blackmores Institute and Adjunct Associate Professor at the National Institute of Complementary Medicine at the University of Western Sydney.
Lesley is a pharmacy graduate from Monash University and a qualified naturopath.
She is a member of the Australian Therapeutic Goods Advisory Council which advises the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), Executive committee for the Complementary and Integrative Medicine interest group for the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia (COSA), Advisory Committee for the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association (AIMA), member of the International Society for Complementary Medicine Research and several working groups for the National Institute for Complementary Medicine (NICM).
Lesley is also the main author of the best selling textbook ‘ Herbs and Natural Supplements – an evidence based guide’ –published by Elsevier, a regular columnist for the Australian Journal of Pharmacy (AJP), lecturer at Monash University and regularly presents at national and international conferences on various topics within the large field of integrative medicine, in addition to her own complementary medicine research projects. Lesley’s own research has focused on public health issues relating to complementary medicine use and safety in addition to conducting clinical trials within a hospital setting using complementary medicine and nutritional approaches.
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Presentation notes
Multiple-choice questions and answers
Suggested further reading
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