Bodies, Beliefs, and The Bedroom: An Integrative Approach to Nutrition and Sexual Health
Bodies, Beliefs, and The Bedroom: An Integrative Approach to Nutrition and Sexual Health
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This groundbreaking session brings together the fields of nutrition, sexual medicine, and body image to explore how food, physiology, and self-perception shape intimacy and sexual well-being. Co-presented by a registered dietitian and a physician specializing in sexual health, session reveals the often-overlooked connections between the gut and vaginal microbiomes, hormone regulation, metabolic health, and sexual desire, arousal, and comfort.
Participants will learn how nutrition, stress, inflammation, and micronutrient status influence libido, arousal, and comfort, while also considering the impact of body image, weight stigma, and self-beliefs on intimacy. Through case studies and practical tools, attendees will gain integrative strategies ranging from nutrition and microbiome support to pelvic floor and embodiment practices to apply immediately in clinical care.
This session invites healthcare professionals to rethink sexual health as a dynamic interplay between nourishment, embodiment, and relational connection-and equips them with a powerful, interdisciplinary toolkit to support their patients more fully.
CPEU: 1.50 (Valid Until September 15, 2029)
Learning Objectives
- Describe how nutrition and the gut and vaginal microbiomes influence hormones, libido, arousal, and overall sexual function.
- Explain how body image, weight stigma, and self-beliefs impact sexual desire, comfort with intimacy, and partner communication.
- Apply integrative strategies in nutrition, microbiome support, pelvic floor approaches, and embodiment tools to improve patient sexual wellness outcomes.
Performance Indicators
- 1.7.2 Recognizes the importance of diversity, orientation, social and cultural norms that may have an impact on individuals, groups and plans of care.
- 11.2.9 Gathers and evaluates information that affects intake and nutrition and health status (e.g., behaviors, beliefs, knowledge, cultural, religious, ethnic, psychosocial, and social determinants of health) that in?uence nutrition and health.
- 10.6.2 Applies a variety of counseling theories, psychological methods and strategies that empower clients/patients to make changes.
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