Our Beloved Sharky

This morning it was my privilege to take our beloved dog, Sharky, on her final adventure to the BLM pet cemetery at Lookout Pass at Small Mountain. I laid her in a beautiful repose in the open crypt beneath the wild goji berries. I scratched her behind the ears for the last time on this earth as my tears rolled down her cheeks. Sharky and our beloved cat, Isis, and my grandchildren are the only beings who have loved me totally without condition on this earth, and lifted me above all that besmudges this low and temporary kingdom, carrying me up above the dark. As I drove her slowly through the desert to her final rest, the pronghorn and a golden eagle joined our cortege on the road, and it was fitting that this earth should send its most elegant representatives to mourn her, for she was royalty.

Sharky hiked many, many miles with me over the past 16 and a half years and loved each adventure. We have been deep in the mountains and forests and streams together and she loved the streams especially.

When Isis died I could not bring myself to give her a public eulogy because she was a private creature, but Sharky was the opposite. Since my first book was published, more than 5,000 people have toured our property and Sharky greeted and loved each of you. She LOVED to have classes and guests and tours here, and I always knew who among you were the stainless souls because she stayed at your sides. I have been famous over the years for telling thousands of you that when I die, I want to come back as my dog, who led one of the great and happiest lives on this planet. Her life did not begin this way.

Sixteen and a half years ago I showed up to work at the Daily Herald and heard a horrible unearthly gargle from a cardboard box behind the building. Inside were Sharky and her sister, tiny puppies. Her sister had been manually blinded in both eyes, and Sharky in one eye. Metal shavings had been forced into both their lungs and they were both gasping horribly for air. I took the box inside and I will forever be grateful that the Daily Herald immediately paid for them to go to the vet for emergency care. Sharky’s sister died on the vet’s table, but the vet was able to vacuum some of the shavings from Sharky’s lungs and she lived. She never breathed normally in her life. We will never know who did this. I will now say in public what I have waited 16 and a half years to say to the monster human being that tortured these two dogs. Since you have not lived everyday with the consequences of your evil, perhaps it is possible that you have moved on and have forgotten what you did. But I have not forgotten you or your actions, and Justice looms bright and wide and large in front of you. When you move into the next world, you will forever be bound in the darkness of your own creation, never to harm again. Me and Sharky and her sister, whose blood stains your hands, look forward to testifying of your choices.

However, a merciful power turned your ugliness into one of the great joys of our life, and I forgive you. Sharky brought immense joy to our family.

My wife and I had been married for less than a month, if I recall correctly, but I knew immediately that these were my dogs. I called my wife and told her I wanted to bring this sickly wounded creature home and she simply said yes and I have loved her ten times more for it since that moment. From that day forward, Sharky lived a worry-free life of luxury and happiness. My wife cared for Sharky and worried for her as if she were our child and I owe my wife a great deal for the tenderness she has given our dog over these many years. Our family said a difficult goodbye before school this morning. Sharky’s best friend, Rigby, spent the week with us, and when she left on on Wednesday, I knew it would be the last time these two friends spent together. The moment Rigby went home to Idaho, Sharky immediately began her final decline. Last night I had to go to Salt Lake to give a speech and play famous for a minute. Sharky was in great pain and cried for me and I sat on the floor of the garage and held her in my arms, scratching behind her ears until she finally calmed and fell asleep. She never woke again and died at about the midnight hour. The night sky was veiled in gloam and mist and opened up for her transit. In the deep desert, veil is like the loosest woven gauze, and as I laid her to rest this morning at Lookout Pass, Sharky had a glorious reunion with her sister. When my day comes, Sharky, we together shall at last be able to give your sister a name, and then hike and play forever. Sharky was also reunited with her beloved friend Butters, and of course Isis, and as they ran off together in unbound joy, I could see Sharky look back at me one last time before the distance and the veil separated us. I love you. Today is a hard day, but Sharky is running and youthful and without pain. We will follow you when our day comes. Sharky and Isis, how much I loved you, how much you lifted me, and how heavy is the weight of my broken heart this morning.

Nutrition Business Certification Class Jan-June 2018

Certified Nutritional Autoimmune Specialist Business Training Course

(Jan-June 2018) Instructor: Caleb Warnock

(Wednesdays 10-noon or Thursday 6:30-8:30pm at 707 W 800 S Alpine Utah 84004

or livestreamed nationwide or online video at your convenience)

Class begins Wednesday, Jan. 10 2018. As a member of this class, you will get four things:

1. Nutrition Specialist Business Certification.

This certification is yours for life. This certifies you to work with clients under the title
Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), offering nutritional and natural healing protocols
and nutritional prescriptions in the following fields:

• Anxiety/ Non-clinical depression
• Asthma/ Allergies
• Patient advocacy
• Candida
• Prebiotics, Probiotics, Postbiotics
• Functional disorders
• Nutrition for behavioral issues
• Nutrition for autism spectrum issues
• Reluctant eaters
• Pain management
• Weight management
• All nutrition-linked disorders

2. Nutritional Autoimmune Specialist Business Certification.

This certification allows you to work with clients suffering from 100+ recognized autoimmune
disorders, and autoimmune-linked disorders, under the title Certified Nutritional Autoimmune
Specialist℠ (CNAS). This certification is offered through the National Association of Certified
Nutritional Autoimmune Specialists℠ (NACNAS) under the umbrella of Lynndyl & Sigurd
Corporation. This title may only be used by those specialists certified by NACNAS. Each
CNAS is required to specialize in Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, Lupus, Fibromyalgia and Leaky
Gut Syndrome and choose at least one other speciality. Each CNAS is required to complete
140 hours total of coursework and clinical work before graduation. Each CNAS is required
to write a supervised business plan and implement the plan.

Certification entitles you to take paying clients. You will also learn from previous graduates
who are now making money with their certification. This certification is for those people
wishing to start a part-time or full-time business as a holistic nutrition specialist. The syllabus  
includes portfolios, what a specialist/coach can and cannot legally do for clients, probiotic
strains, probiotic live foods - no-cook yogurt, water kefir, milk kefir, sauerkraut, vinegar,
kombucha, natural yeast, prebiotics, postbiotics, autoimmune disorders: Arthritis (several types),
(Addison’s, Celiac, Crohn’s, Fibromyalgia, Graves, Hashimoto’s, Juvenile arthritis,
Kawasaki disease, Lupus, Lyme, Psoriasis, Restless Leg Syndrome, Ulcerative colitis + more
than 80 more), Herbal Medicines A-Z + tinctures, hot and cold medicine, compounding,
tools + more, preventative nutrition, prescriptive nutrition, business plan, specialties,
doctor-coach-clinic relationships, pharmacopeia and more. The first three months of class
are spent learning the nutritional protocols. The last three months are spent focusing on
clinicals, learning how to do client appointments and starting your business of taking clients.

*I reserve the right to change the schedule according to our needs. If there is something that
you would like covered that you don’t see covered, please let me know and we may be able
to add it.

** Class times may change, depending on our needs.

Because the field of nutritional autoimmunology is constantly evolving, and because the
number of recognized autoimmune disorders is expanding, and because nutritional protocols
and nutritional prescriptions in this field continue to evolve, this certification must be renewed
every three years. Renewal is designed to protect both you as a CNAS and patients by ensuring
that each CNAS is working with the latest, best protocols, prescriptions, research, and
information.

CNAS Renewal Requirements:
Each CNAS must be actively seeing patients, with at least 20 patient visits per year.
CNAS certification must be renewed every three years through the NACNAS certification
renewal program. Certification renewal is issued as a printed certification notice. Present a
research paper (500-2000 words) at the annual NACNAS certification renewal conference.
The topic must be approved three months in advance by the NACNAS board. The paper must be
submitted six weeks in advance for presentation approval. Papers and presentations will explain
new methods or protocols or research or theories, areas of concern, business methods or other
topics. OR you may: Submit (but not present as a speaker) a research paper (500-2000 words)
to be distributed as part of the annual NACNAS certification renewal seminar or conference.
The topic must be approved three months in advance by the NACNAS board. The paper must be
submitted six weeks in advance for approval. Each CNAS must sit on certification board interviews
at least once every three years. If the board does not approve certification, they will work with you
to make sure you are ready to see patients alone. As part of your board interview, you will be
questioned in your specialties. Pay $25 annual dues to NACNAS (to be used toward conference
expenses, website expenses, advertising, executive board stipends and other expenses as approved
by the board.) Each CNAS agrees to seek counsel from NACNAS executive board members if any
client case arises where non-typical protocols, methods or prescriptions may be needed. No CNAS
may use a non-typical, un-approved or experimental protocol, method, or prescription without prior
approval. No CNAS may violate any state or federal laws. Each CNAS must remain in good standing
with all local and state Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing requirements, and must
not introduce any treatment, method or practice that violates DOPL requirements. Each CNAS must
cease to use the CNAS title and NACNAS certification upon termination of certification by NACNAS.
Censure and termination proceedings will be at the discretion of NACNAS. Certification renewal
and requirements after a lapse will be at the discretion of NACNAS. Requirements subject to change
by vote of executive board or discretion of the board chair, Caleb Warnock.

3. Active Business Plan

Each CNAS will write and achieve a business plan and begin client advocacy as part of the course.
This will include protocols for client acquisition, client care and education, nutritional prescriptions,
disorder explainers, and more. Each individual CNAS maintains full control of their independent
business. NACNAS will offer long-term business advocacy to each CNAS as possible and within
reason. NACNAS assumes no liability for the actions of independent CNAS and their independent
businesses.

Earning an Income as a CNAS  

As a CNAS, you may decide whether to work full-time or part-time. You may take clients
on your own, or work at a wellness clinic. I have worked at two clinics (one in Salt Lake
County and one in Utah County) and take clients on my own. I charge $100 for a 60 minute
initial appointment and $60 for a 40 minute follow up (at the clinic), or $40 for a Skype
appointment or appointment at my home (on my own). In class you will learn how to take
clients in person or online, how find clients, how much to charge, and you set up and
implement a business plan as part of the class. You will spend the second half of the class
(Jan-Mar) starting your business, under my supervision.

4. Free access to the permaculture/homesteading course.

This course covers organic natural permaculture gardening skills. Attendance is not required.
Participation in this course may not negatively affect your effort to graduate from the CNAS
course. Permaculture/ Homesteading is held Tuesdays, 9am to noon or 6pm to 9pm, (hours
are shortened in winter) thru June 2018. Because this course hands-on, it is not available
online. The Homesteading and Permaculture Skills class is combined indoor and outdoor
classroom work. In this hands-on class you will learn all natural hot beds, Aquaponics,
Autumn Garden Prep and Planning, Castile Soap, Laundry Soap, Chicken Tractoring,
Cold Frames, Cloches, Fertilizer, Firecrafting, Food Forest Planting, Freecycled Materials,
Fresnel Lens, Geothermal Greenhouse Design, Hand Pollination, Henkeeping, Hugelkultur
(traditional Method, Utah Method, Box Method), Natural Yeast, No Till Gardening, Organic
Growing, Gmo Explainer, Hybrid Explainer, Organic pest control, Propagation, Grafting,
Pruning, Seed Harvesting + Saving, Spring Planting, Successful Gardening in Utah,
Transplanting, Tree Shred, Vegetables and Herbs A-Z: planting, growing, fertilizing,
harvesting, expanding repertoire, Water Collection + Water Law, Weedkilling, Wildcrafting,
Wild Edibles Herbarium, Winter Gardening, Winter Grain Planting, field trips, and more.

What is a Certified Nutritional Autoimmune Specialist?

A nutritional autoimmune specialist helps clients use nutrition and education to decrease
inflammation, reduce flare-up triggers and physical stress, manage symptoms, boost correct
immune function, and prevent autoimmune multipliers as possible. A CNAS helps clients
take control and responsibility for their disease without pharmaceutical drugs and their side
effects as much as possible. A CNAS helps patients manage edema, pain, glycemic harm,
weight, electrolyte imbalances, and more.

Who benefits from seeing a Certified Nutritional Autoimmune Specialist?

People who prefer nutritional and natural healing protocols. People who are not willing to be a
victim to their symptoms and diagnosis, and want to take charge of their health. People who
want to avoid the side-effects and/or expense of pharmaceutical drugs. People who want
education about their disease and the complex interaction of nutrition and function. People
who feel overlooked, underserved, or frustrated in their attempts to manage their disease, or
don’t know where to begin. People frustrated in getting explanations or have been told their
symptoms are a foregone conclusion or are “all in their head.” People who have not been
successful at controlling flare-ups, or who have recently seen their autoimmune disorder
become uncontrolled for whatever reason.

COST
-$2,240 Health & Nutrition Specialist Class + Certification (Jan-June 2018) (if paid on or
before first day of class; FREE homestead/permaculture class)

$2,000 Health & Nutrition Specialist Class + Certification (if you paid for a property consultation
in past two years, if paid on or before first day of class; FREE homestead/permaculture class)

Payments: If you wish to make payments, you can pay $933 per month over three months ($2800 total)
for the  Health & Nutrition Specialist Class + Certification, FREE homestead/permaculture class).
The first payment is due on or before the first day of class. The second and third payments are due
on the first day of February and March, respectively. I prefer check or cash to avoid fees to the credit
card company (I give receipts) but if you need to pay online with a card, I can arrange that.

Questions? Or to register, please email calebwarnock@yahoo.com

© 2018 Caleb Warnock, founder, National Association of Certified Nutritional Autoimmune
Specialists℠. May not be reproduced, rewritten, shared, distributed or broadcast without permission
of the author.

Why would anyone with autoimmune come to me for help?

Yesterday I was asked why anyone would come to me for help with nutritional and autoimmune diseases when I am not a doctor. People come to me because in 1999 I became sick with an esophageal ulcer due to eosinophilic esophagitis which turned squamous. The doctors told me there was nothing they could do and it would likely turn cancerous. Then natural yeast walked into my life and healed my ulcer completely. I co-wrote a national bestselling book. Tens of thousands of people came to me for natural yeast starts. I had become angry when I discovered some doctors knew that nutrition could have healed and prevented what I had if used early. My doctor said he didn’t tell people like me how to use nutritional healing because people find it too hard to make nutritional changes and he didn’t have the time to educate them because it take many hours and insurance won’t pay for it. Meanwhile, after seeing results from the natural yeast they got from my kitchen, people came to me more and more for help and I helped them. I got certified as a nutritional specialist, then I created the first program in the nation specializing in nutritional healing specifically for autoimmune diseases. Today I see patients in two clinics and I teach a six month long course certifying students as Nutritional Autoimmune Specialists. My students learn about each of the more than 100 autoimmune disorders and how to use nutritional tools for each disorder. We are not associated with but adopt the goals and concerns of the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, the group that decides what is an autoimmune disease:

Misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis can result in damage to vital organs.

Commonly used immunosuppressant treatments (steroids like prednisone) lead to devastating long-term side effects.

Doctors can struggle to correctly diagnose and treat autoimmune disorders. “Medical education provides minimal learning about autoimmune disease”.

Physicians are generally unaware of interrelationships among the different autoimmune diseases or advances in treatment outside their own specialty area.

We exist as Certified Nutritional Autoimmune Specialists primarily to help people alleviate their suffering. Above all else, we help our clients advocate for their own health, whether they are dealing with autoimmune, functional disorders, lack of nutritional education, or other issues. We do this by providing education about what science knows about specific autoimmune and functional disorders. Having autoimmune conditions can often be like have the pieces to a puzzle. We can help patients put the puzzle pieces together, then take the puzzle to their doctor. We know from patient experiences that many people who have autoimmune disorders suffer from misdiagnosis or misguided treatment, sometimes for years, before getting a diagnosis and a path toward healing. Many people who are sick with specific autoimmune disorders are initially told for years they have “fibromyalgia.” The work is difficult because no two autoimmune patients are alike. Each requires a lot of time and custom-tailored nutritional intervention. There is no one-size-fits-all answer. The typical person who comes to me has been through a half-dozen doctors and specialists and has gotten worse instead of better and has gotten lots of pharmaceutical prescriptions but no healing.

How we advocate:

Provide education about autoimmune disorders to the client in written form and in counseling.

Provide education to the client’s doctor by writing writing a patient advocacy form which reports the patients symptoms and diagnostic possibilities for the client to take to their doctor.

Provide written information and counseling to clients about holistic options.

Educate clients about the dangers inherent in taking prescription immunosuppressant drugs that can have devastating long-term side effects. Prednisone and other corticosteroids are among the top treatments used by doctors to treat autoimmune disorders. Patients have a right to understand how these drugs might affect them long-term, and whether holistic and nutritional options help.

According to the American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association:

Approximately 50 million Americans — or one in five people — suffer from autoimmune diseases. Women are more likely than men to be affected; some estimates say 75% of those affected are women. Still, autoimmunity is rarely discussed as a women’s health issue.

The lack of knowledge and awareness surrounding autoimmunity result in untold suffering for people affected by these diseases. A collaborative approach to research, funding, and early detection is essential to finding eventual cures and preventative measures for all autoimmune diseases. To encourage such collaboration, there needs to be a national focus on autoimmunity as the common factor in all autoimmune diseases.

Autoimmune symptoms cross many specialties and can affect all body organs.

Initial symptoms are often intermittent and nonspecific until the disease becomes acute. Research is generally disease-specific and limited in scope. More information-sharing and crossover among research projects on different autoimmune diseases is needed.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates up to 23.5 million Americans suffer from autoimmune disease and that the prevalence is rising. The specialists at AARDA disagree, saying that 50 million Americans suffer from autoimmune disease. Why the difference? The NIH numbers only include 24 diseases for which good epidemiology studies were available. Researchers have identified 80-100 different autoimmune diseases and suspect at least 40 additional diseases of having an autoimmune basis.

These diseases are chronic and can be life-threatening (3).

Autoimmune disease is one of the top 10 leading causes of death in female children and women in all age groups up to 64 years of age.

A close genetic relationship exists among autoimmune disease, explaining clustering in individuals and families as well as a common pathway of disease).

The Institute of Medicine reports that the US is behind other countries in research into immune system self recognition, the process involved in autoimmune disease..

For all these reasons, “getting a diagnosis can be a challenging journey,” according to AARDA. Our job as certified nutritional autoimmune specialists is to advocate for patients on this journey.

Part of nutritional counseling is to listen to the client’s concerns and symptoms. Because we specialize in autoimmune disorders, we are trained to recognized which symptoms might point toward specific autoimmune disorders. Autoimmune disorders often go undiagnosed by physicians because of lack of time on the part of the physician to spend hearing client’s symptoms, and lack of education to recognize the symptoms. One important part of what we do is spend time with clients, time that no one else has spent, to listen to them reporting their symptoms. We have a long list of questions we use to help clients report symptoms. We use this information to assist in patient advocacy. This is done by writing the patient a note to take to their physician reporting symptoms if we believe they point to a specific undiagnosed autoimmune disorder. This allows the patient to be their own advocate with their doctor by having specific information on their own health. We work directly with their doctor when needed.

When patients have advocates, it encourages doctors to look more specifically and carefully at autoimmune disorders. My personal advocacy on behalf of my clients has led to major changes and attention by their doctors.

Because most physicians do not specialize in knowledge of the various autoimmune disorders, it is important to be a catalyst encouraging awareness about autoimmune and nutrition, and to encourage the client to keep their physician in the loop.

In addition, most doctors are not aware that when one autoimmune disease is left uncontrolled it almost always gives rise to a second, then a third, and so on. It is critical that patients be monitored for these “multipliers” and doctors are not doing this. When caught early, these multipliers can often be reversed but when left until symptoms are severe, the damage is often permanent. We know how to monitor for the smallest signs of autoimmune, and we advocate directly with their doctors to make sure these patterns of symptoms are getting attention.

If any of this sounds familiar to you or someone you love and you would like to see if a certified nutritional autoimmune specialist can help you, contact me and I will have someone contact you. You can email calebwarnock@iyahoo.com and someone will get in touch with you.

Certified Nutritional Autoimmune Specialist Business Training Course

Certified Nutritional Autoimmune Specialist Business Training Course

(Sept-Mar 2017) Instructor: Caleb Warnock

(Wednesdays 10-noon or Thursday 6:30-8:30pm at 707 W 800 S Alpine Utah 84004

or livestreamed nationwide or online video at your convenience)

At the end of this class, you will get four things:

1. Nutrition Specialist Business Certification.

This certification is yours for life. This certifies you to work with patients under the title Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), offering nutritional and natural healing protocols and nutritional prescriptions in the following fields:

• Anxiety/ Non-clinical depression
• Asthma/ Allergies
• Patient advocacy
• Candida
• Prebiotics, Probiotics, Postbiotics
• Functional disorders
• Nutrition for behavioral issues
• Nutrition for autism spectrum issues
• Reluctant eaters
• Pain management
• Weight management


• All nutrition-linked disorders

2. Nutritional Autoimmune Specialist Business Certification.

This certification allows you to work with patients suffering from 100+ recognized autoimmune disorders, and autoimmune-linked disorders, under the title Certified Nutritional Autoimmune Specialist℠ (CNAS). This certification is offered through the National Association of Certified Nutritional Autoimmune Specialists℠ (NACNAS) under the umbrella of Lynndyl & Sigurd Corporation. This title may only be used by those specialists certified by NACNAS. Each CNAS is required to specialize in Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, Lupus, Fibromyalgia and Leaky Gut Syndrome and choose at least one other speciality. Each CNAS is required to complete 140 hours total of coursework and clinical work before graduation. Each CNAS is required to write a supervised business plan and implement the plan.

Certification entitles you to take paying clients. This certification is for those people wishing to start a part-time or full-time business as a holistic nutrition specialist. SYLLABUS includes portfolios, what a specialist/coach can and cannot legally do for clients, probiotic strains, probiotic live foods - no-cook yogurt, water kefir, milk kefir, sauerkraut, vinegar, kombucha, natural yeast, prebiotics, postbiotics, autoimmune disorders: Arthritis (several types), (Addison’s, Celiac, Crohn’s, Fibromyalgia, Graves, Hashimoto’s, Juvenile arthritis, Kawasaki disease, Lupus, Lyme, Psoriasis, Restless Leg Syndrome, Ulcerative colitis + more than 80 more), Herbal Medicines A-Z + tinctures, hot and cold medicine, compounding, tools + more, preventative nutrition, prescriptive nutrition, business plan, specialties, doctor-coach-clinic relationships, pharmacopeia and more.

*I reserve the right to change the schedule according to our needs. If there is something that you would like covered that you don’t see covered, please let me know and we may be able to add it).

** Class times may occasionally change, depending on our needs.

Because the field of nutritional autoimmunology is constantly evolving, and because the number of recognized autoimmune disorders is expanding, and because nutritional protocols and nutritional prescriptions in this field continue to evolve, this certification must be renewed every three years. Renewal is designed to protect both you as a CNAS and patients by ensuring that each CNAS is working with the latest, best protocols, prescriptions, research, and information.

CNAS Renewal Requirements:

• Each CNAS must be actively seeing patients, with at least 20 patient visits per year.
• CNAS certification must be renewed every three years through the NACNAS certification renewal program. Certification renewal is issued as a printed certification notice.
• Present a research paper (500-2000 words) at the annual NACNAS certification renewal conference. The topic must be approved three months in advance by the NACNAS board. The paper must be submitted six weeks in advance for presentation approval. Papers and presentations will explain new methods or protocols or research or theories, areas of concern, business methods or other topics. OR you may:
• Submit (but not present as a speaker) a research paper (500-2000 words) to be distributed as part of the annual NACNAS certification renewal seminar or conference. The topic must be approved three months in advance by the NACNAS board. The paper must be submitted six weeks in advance for approval.
• Each CNAS must sit on certification board interviews at least once every three years. If the board does not approve certification, they will work with you to make sure you are ready to see patients alone. As part of your board interview, you will be questioned in your specialties.
• Pay $25 annual dues to NACNAS (to be used toward conference expenses, website expenses, advertising, executive board stipends and other expenses as approved by the board.)
• Each CNAS agrees to seek counsel from NACNAS executive board members if any patient case arises where non-typical protocols, methods or prescriptions may be needed. No CNAS may use a non-typical, un-approved or experimental protocol, method, or prescription without prior approval. No CNAS may violate any state or federal laws. Each CNAS must remain in good standing with all local and state Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing requirements, and must not introduce any treatment, method or practice that violates DOPL requirements. Each CNAS must cease to use the CNAS title and NACNAS certification upon termination of certification by NACNAS. Censure and termination proceedings will be at the discretion of NACNAS. Certification renewal and requirements after a lapse will be at the discretion of NACNAS.
• Requirements subject to change by vote of executive board or discretion of the board chair, Caleb Warnock.

3. Active Business Plan

Each CNAS will write and achieve a business plan and begin seeing patients as part of the course. This will include protocols for patient acquisition, patient care and education, nutritional prescriptions, disorder explainers, and more. Each individual CNAS maintains full control of their independent business. NACNAS will offer long-term business advocacy to each CNAS as possible and within reason. NACNAS assumes no liability for the actions of independent CNAS and their independent businesses.

Earning an Income as a CNAS  

As a CNAS, you may decide whether to work full-time or part-time. You may take patients on your own, or work at a wellness clinic. Beginning in Sept. 2017 you may have the option to see patients at the Willow Springs Wellness Center, in Draper, Utah,  that I am opening with a friend and fellow CNAS, Amy Smith. For those who are taking the class in person, part of your clinical training will take place at this new clinic and you may be able to start seeing paying patients at this clinic.

I work at two clinics (one in Salt Lake County and one in Utah County) and take patients on my own. I charge $100 for a 60 minute initial appointment and $60 for a 40 minute follow up (at the clinic), or $40 for a Skype appointment (on my own). Before working at the clinics, I saw patients in my home, but now that I am at the clinics, I only patients I see on my own are via Skype. In class you will learn how to take patients in person or online, how find patients, how much to charge, and you set up and implement a business plan as part of the class. You will spend the second half of the class (Jan-Mar) starting your business, under my supervision.

4. Free access to the permaculture/homesteading course.

This course covers organic natural permaculture gardening skills. Attendance is not required. Participation in this course may not negatively affect your effort to graduate from the CNAS course. Permaculture/ Homesteading is held Tuesdays, 9am to noon or 6pm to 9pm, thru Mar. 2017. Because this course hands-on, it is not available online. The Homesteading and Permaculture Skills class is combined indoor and outdoor classroom work. In this hands-on class you will learn all natural hot beds, Aquaponics, Autumn Garden Prep and Planning, Castile Soap, Laundry Soap, Chicken Tractoring, Cold Frames, Cloches, Fertilizer, Firecrafting, Food Forest Planting, Freecycled Materials, Fresnel Lens, Geothermal Greenhouse Design and Construction, Hand Pollination, Henkeeping, Hugelkultur (traditional Method, Utah Method, Box Method), Natural Yeast, No Till Gardening, Organic Growing, Gmo Explainer, Hybrid Explainer, Organic pest control, Propagation, Grafting, Pruning, Seed Harvesting + Saving, Spring Planting, Successful Gardening in Utah, Transplanting, Tree Shred, True Potato Seeds, Vegetables and Herbs A-Z: planting, growing, fertilizing, harvesting, best for Utah, expanding repertoire, Water Collection + Water Law, Weedkilling, Wildcrafting, Wild Edibles Herbarium, Winter Gardening, Winter Grain Planting, field trips, and more.

What is a Certified Nutritional Autoimmune Specialist?

A nutritional autoimmune specialist helps patients use nutrition and education to decrease inflammation, reduce flare-up triggers and physical stress, manage symptoms, boost correct immune function, and prevent autoimmune multipliers as possible. A CNAS helps patients take control and responsibility for their disease without pharmaceutical drugs and their side effects as much as possible. A CNAS helps patients manage edema, pain, glycemic harm, weight, electrolyte imbalances, and more.

Who benefits from seeing a Certified Nutritional Autoimmune Specialist?

Patients who prefer nutritional and natural healing protocols. Patients who are not willing to be a victim to their symptoms and diagnosis, and want to take charge of their health. Patients who want to avoid the side-effects and/or expense of pharmaceutical drugs. Patients who want education about their disease and the complex interaction of nutrition and function. Patients who feel overlooked, underserved, or frustrated in their attempts to manage their disease, or don’t know where to begin. Patients frustrated in getting explanations or have been told their symptoms are a foregone conclusion or are “all in their head.” Patients who have not been successful at controlling flare-ups, or who have recently seen their autoimmune disorder become uncontrolled for whatever reason.

Goals of the National Association of Certified Nutritional Autoimmune Specialists℠ (NACNAS)

1. Certify professionals (CNAS) to help patients suffering from nutrition and autoimmune disorders.
2. Certify each CNAS in at least one specialty field.
3. Create traveling or online clinics, staffed by CNAS, to better serve rural patients.
4. Make the public aware of services offered by CNAS.
5. Educate the public about autoimmune and nutritional disorders.

COST

• $2,200 Health & Nutrition Specialist Class + Certification (Sept-Mar 2018) (if paid on or before first day of class; FREE homestead/permaculture class)
• $2,000 Health & Nutrition Specialist Class + Certification (if you paid for a consultation in past two years, if paid on or before first day of class; FREE homestead/permaculture class)
• $371 per month Health & Nutrition Specialist Class + Certification (if paid monthly, first payment due first class,seven total payments, total cost: $2,600) FREE homestead/permaculture class)
• I prefer check or cash to avoid fees to the credit card company (I give receipts) but if you need to pay online with a card, I can arrange that.
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