About Our Speaker – Lylen Ferris, ND

Lylen Ferris
ND
Dr. Ferris attended Davidson College in North Carolina where she obtained a BA in Cultural Anthropology and a minor in art history. Her sister struggled with mental illness and eating disorders, and frustration with the conventional model being unable to help her led Dr. Ferris to explore a broader approach to health care. After travelling extensively and witnessing different cultures and ways of thinking, Dr. Ferris realized naturopathic medicine was her calling. She completed her pre-medical training at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and came back to the United States to attend medical school.
Dr. Ferris received her medical education from the National College of Natural Medicine (now NUNM) in Portland, Oregon where she trained as a general practitioner and tailored her studies to focus on women’s health. She completed a 3 year Women’s Health clinical internship, followed by a residency in general practice with a focus on Women’s Health and hormone imbalance.
Her love of teaching began in her residency where she taught numerous clinical education classes while mentoring students, and Dr. Ferris has continued to teach other medical professionals in the US and around the globe, and at numerous functional medicine conferences including the Laboratory, Endocrine and Neurotransmitter Symposium, the Institute of Women’s Health and Integrative Medicine, and the annual conference for the American Academy of Naturopathic Physicians. Her speaking has included international conferences such as the Congresso de Pratica Orto Molecular in Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Lylen Ferris’ Upcoming Sessions
Our patients have regular preventative dental exams and annual checkups to prevent colon, breast and other reproductive organ cancers, but how many, if any, have routine preventative care for their brain health and mental faculties?? Starting in perimenopause, hormonal changes can alter a woman’s memory and other cognitive function, from brain fog to mild cognitive changes to disabling memory loss.
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However, brain health decline is no longer a progressive process void of effective interventions as in decades past. This presentation will provide in detail, a comprehensive treatment approach for the Integrative Practitioner, which has been shown to improve and often even restore premorbid memory. Treatment approaches will address functional imbalances in hormones, neurotransmitters and nutrition related to brain function, mood, and aging in menopause.??
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