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Optimizing Athletic Performance

Gain the Competitive Edge in Working with Elite & Amateur Athletes

Presenter: Robert A. Rakowski, DC, CCN, DACBN, DIBAK

Clinical Takeaways | Dates | Schedule | Register

With advances in biochemistry, genetics, and nutrition science, innovation in clinical sports nutrition has reached a new level. New insights into the unique physiological needs of athletes have led to the development of even more advanced, strategic protocols.

Your patients’ peak athletic performance and health goals highly depend on:

• Ensuring timely delivery of fuel and oxygen
• Restoring pH balance
• Preventing inflammatory trauma to tissues
• Promoting healing and accelerating recovery

Join Dr. Robert Rakowski, an expert in clinical sports nutrition, as he shares natural strategies that have helped world champions, Olympic athletes, and weekend warriors to optimize their performance—and their health. By attending this seminar, you will learn how to recommend cutting-edge, nutritional protocols to address the unique needs of elite and amateur athletes.

Key Clinical Takeaways:

• Discover how to maximize fuel and oxygen delivery for sprint and endurance athletes
• Learn up-to-date information on the importance of nutrient timing—before, during, and after training
• Gain new insights for improving acid-alkaline balance for better performance and health
• Discover new and compelling strategies to minimize inflammatory trauma associated with exercise
• Learn how to optimize recovery following training sessions

Attendees will receive:

• A fully referenced, up-to-date syllabus
• Clinical pearls and protocols based on case studies
• An information-packed day guaranteed to expand your clinical knowledge!

Don’t fall behind. Pick up the pace in your practice by attending this exciting seminar on clinical sports nutrition!
Register today by calling 1-800-692-9400!

Upcoming Dates and Locations:

February 9, 2008	Boston, MA	Doubletree Hotel Boston / Bedford Glen 44 Middlesex Turnpike Bedford, MA 01730 781-275-5500
February 10, 2008	New York, NY	New York Marriott Marquis 1535 Broadway New York, NY 10036 212-398-1900

Schedule:

8:30 - 9:00	REGISTRATION
9:00 - 10:45	Optimizing energy production
10:45 - 11:15	Alkalizing strategies to enhance performance and health
11:15 - 12:00	Nutritional strategies to minimize exercise trauma and inflammation
12:00 - 1:00	LUNCH
1:00 - 2:15	Anti-catabolic strategies—the good side of insulin
2:15 - 2:45	BREAK
2:45 - 3:45	Improving the health of athletes
3:45 - 4:30	Case studies and Q & A

Cost:

Practitioners*	$169/$149**
Staff	$99/$79**
Full-Time Students with current ID	$69/$39**
* 6.0 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) have been approved for. Chiropractors and Naturopaths, please include $20 per registration. When approved, CEUs are available at no charge to LACs, RDs, DTRs, RNs, DACBNs (Diplomats of the American Clinical Board of Nutrition) and NANP Members (CEUs count towards NANP membership renewal only!). ** Early registration discount if registered and paid 10 working days in advance.

Registration Information:
Call Metagenics Customer Service to register: 1-800-692-9400
In Canada call 1-800-268-6200