AANP ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Contact Information
Penny Gregorio
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Office: 1-905-508-2050 ext. 2233
Cell: 647-505-8862
pgregorio@seroyal.com

Speaker
Mikhael Adams, B.Sc., N.D.,
Renascent Integral Health Centre
54 Main Street East
Milton, ON L9T 1N3
T: 905. 878. 9994
F: 905. 878. 9821
mikhael@integralhealth.ca

Oral presentation, 90 minutes

Track: Environmental Medicine

I. TITLE
The Heat is On: What to Expect in Global Health due to Global Warming and the role of the Naturopathic
Physician

II. DESCRIPTION

It is an unmistakable albeit unavoidable truth; global warming is a reality today, wreaking

havoc across our continents, demanding our attention and imposing disastrous impacts on our
environment, the affects of which are creating and will continue to create health issues that
were never or rarely seen by our predecessors.

III. FULL ABSTRACT

According to “Climate Change Futures”, a report released from The Center for Health and the
Global Environment, Harvard Medical School 2005, the resurgence of old diseases, such as malaria
and cholera, the redistribution of still others (like West Nile virus) and the emergence of new diseases are
of considerable concern. Since the late 1990’s, the pace of new and resurgent infections appearing in
humans, animals and plants has continued unabated (Epstein et al. 2003). Persistent poverty and
deteriorating public health programs underlie the rebound of most diseases transmitted “person-to-
person” (for example, diphtheria and tuberculosis).

• This presentation will focus on the emerging health issues, as well as those to come. We will review
the key role of natural medicine going forward and what we as Practitioners need to do to keep our
clients healthy through this time of change.

• We will explore the health issues that have arisen and those that are predicted to arise as a result of
global warming and what strategies we can develop using natural medicines to deal with each health
issue.

1
  Each health issue will be addressed in detail and what natural therapies would help an individual go
through them with ease.

IV. EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

I. An understanding of the health issues that have emerged and those health issues that are predicted
to emerge as a result of global warming

II. Understand the pathophysiology of these health issues based on current research

III. Learn how to develop successful strategies and treatment protocols using natural remedies to deal
with each health issue

Pharmacy: none
Target audience: Physicians, medical practitioners, Obstetricians and midwives, Chinese and Eastern
medicine practitioners, Homeopaths, Nutritionists, herbalists, botanists, Researchers and scientists,
Educators, Students
Presentation should be submitted for CE credits

Bio:
Dr. Mikhael Adams, B.Sc., N.D., received his Doctor of Naturopathy from the National College of
Naturopathic Medicine in 1981. He practiced for ten years in Seattle, and is now in private practice in Milton,
Ontario. He uses drainage, nutrition, homeopathy, acupuncture and auricular medicine as his primary
therapeutic tools. He has studied homeopathy since 1977. Dr. Adams is the president of the International
Association of Auricular and Bioenergetic Medicine, past president of the North American Association of
Auricular Medicine, and has studied intensively with Dr. Paul Nogier in France. Dr. Adams taught Clinical
Pathology at the Northwest Institute of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine from 1987 to 1993 and has been
giving workshops in auricular medicine since 1984. Dr. Adams has been lecturing in North America on
homeopathy and drainage since 1988.