Bioenergetics (Mitochondria)

Evolutionary Medicine combines information from different disciplines such as evolutionary biology, anthropology, and zoology with human medicine in order to create new paradigms or understanding human health and disease. It recognizes that many aspects of our biology and physiology are shaped by natural selection and evolutionary processes. In HOMeHOPe, students will learn leverage proximate explanation (i.e how things work) and evolutionary explanations (i.e why certain functions exist) to address the question: What can we do about them clinically to help our clients?

The Exposome is the systemic, unbiased, -omic scale examination of non-genetic factors contributing to health and disease. It is also known as the “environmental genome” i.e. the cumulative lifetime exposure to three environments: General External (social capital, education, financial status, etc), Specific External (radiation, infectious agents, pollutants, dyes, chemicals, etc), and Internal (hormones, physical activity, gut microbiome, etc). In this module, students learn how to use advanced testing to detect and correct the environmental genome to optimize the health of their clients.