Including:

• Weight Loss medications, Ozempic, WeGovy, Mounjaro, and the next generation incoming like Retatrutide
• Profiles, mechanisms of action, effects, sourcing, costs, outcomes, risks and benefits
• Best practice use of weight loss medications
• How can practitioners best support clients using weight loss meds?
• How can practitioners collaborate with prescribing GPs and via Primary Care Networks?
• How are GPs thinking about provision, what are their problems?
• What are the biggest risks, and how can they be mitigated?
• How can practitioners position themselves to help clients interested in or using weight loss medications?
• What are the effective alternatives to weight loss medications?
• Fasting protocols for effective, sustainable weight loss?
• Intermittent weight-loss protocols relative to continuous weight-loss
• GLP-1 agonist foods and supplements
• The role of behaviours, psychology and the environment in enabling or sabotaging weight control
• Client stories, successes, failures and key learnings

Dr David Unwin

Session Title: To be confirmed soon

Session Outline: 

• Outline will be added soon

Speaker Profile: Dr David Unwin is an award-winning GP known for pioneering the low-carb approach in the UK.

He is the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) national champion for collaborative care and support planning in obesity and diabetes.

A GP in Southport near Liverpool, he has helped care for a practice of nearly 10,000 people since 1986. To date over 100 of his patients with Type 2 diabetes have achieved drug-free remission. This gives a remission rate of 50% at 30 months duration of those choosing a lower carb diet. One of the best results for any clinic in the world.

He has 30 published papers and has been featured on TV, radio, The Times, The Observer and the New Scientist Magazine.

Dr Natascha van Zyl

Session Title: To be confirmed soon

Session Outline:

• Outline will be added soon

Speaker Profile: Chartered Health Psychologist | Lifestyle Medicine Specialist | Behaviour Change & Health Equity Advocate | Educator | Researcher | Consultant

Visionary and values-driven, Dr Natascha Van Zyl brings over 28 years of expertise across academia, healthcare, medicine, and consultancy. A Chartered Health Psychologist and Lifestyle Medicine Practitioner, she is recognised for pioneering integrative, trauma-informed care pathways and driving curriculum innovation in health education.

Currently a Senior Teaching Fellow in Health Psychology at the University of Portsmouth, Natascha lectures and supervises research across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, shaping future practitioners through evidence-based behavioural science.

Kat Bright

Session Title: To be confirmed soon

Session Outline: 

• Outline will be added soon

Speaker Profile: Kat Bright is a experienced Nutritional Therapist and Nutritionist with a focus on female hormone health and weight management.

She brings a compassionate, evidence-based approach to practice recognising that sustainable change happens when the advice is realistic, practical and personalised. She works with clients 1-1, with groups via an online weight loss program and with a private GP using GLP-1 medications. Her practical time-saving strategies and simple nourishing recipes make healthy eating achievable and enjoyable.

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• 4-5 hours of BANT-Approved CPD
• 5+ hours of additional Bonus Live content from Event Partners (most of which is CPD quality)
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• All the matching slide decks, with references
• Recordings will be accessible to you via YouTube
• Slide decks will be accessible to you via Google Drive

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• Event goodie bag given out in person on the main day
• Main day lunch and refreshments
• Exhibition with our event partners

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