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The ADAPT Practitioner Training Program
Make an Even Bigger Difference in Preventing and Reversing Chronic Disease
Master the most effective functional and ancestral medicine practices
Kresser Institute will play an important role in training the next generation of functional medicine practitioners…
Chris Kresser is one of the sharpest functional medicine clinicians and educators I know. I love his evidence-based, yet practical approach, and his blog and email newsletter are among the very few that I regularly read. I'm confident that the Kresser Institute will play an important role in training the next generation of functional medicine practitioners.
Mark Hyman, MD
Director, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Chairman, Institute for Functional Medicine
9-time #1 New York Times bestselling author
Create a more rewarding practice with the only functional medicine training with an ancestral health perspective.
The world needs more functional medical practitioners with an ancestral perspective. With chronic illness at unprecedented levels, the demand for more than mere symptom suppression has never been greater.
This comprehensive course for practitioners will give you:
The only integrated approach to functional medicine with an ancestral perspective.
A map for building an effective, streamlined clinical practice.
The ability to help more people genuinely reverse and prevent chronic disease.
A more rewarding practice with better patient outcomes and more stable revenue.
Healthcare Is in Crisis as Conventional Medicine Falls Short
Doctors' hands are tied and patients are desperate for better solutions
The problem with our current healthcare system is that it isn't healthcare at all—it's disease management. If patients complain of stomach pain, they're given an acid-suppressing drug. If they have high cholesterol, they're given a drug to lower it. If they have a skin rash, they're given a steroid to suppress it. There is rarely any investigation into what caused the problems in the first place.
What's more, if a patient has a health problem—like an autoimmune disease, digestive disorder, or even something as simple as fatigue—that can't be fixed by taking a pill or having surgery, conventional medicine has very little to offer.
We desperately need a new approach to medicine—one that focuses on treating the underlying causes of chronic disease, rather than just suppressing symptoms, and recognizes that our diet and lifestyle are the primary factors that contribute to health and disease.
But what would such an approach look like?
The Ideal Approach: Functional Medicine Meets Ancestral Health
We need new clinical skills to address the emerging health problems of the 21st century
Functional medicine is a new model of medicine that is neither "conventional" nor "alternative." It is a combination of the best elements of both, and it represents the future of medicine. Functional medicine is:
- Investigative. It addresses symptoms by focusing on the underlying cause of the problem, which leads to more profound and longer-lasting results.
- Holistic. It envisions the body as an interconnected whole that is in dynamic relationship to its environment and recognizes the importance of these connections in health and disease.
- Patient-centered. It treats the patient, not the disease. Treatments are highly individualized based on patient needs.
Like all living organisms, humans are adapted to survive and thrive in a particular environment. When that environment changes faster than the organism can adapt, mismatch occurs. This mismatch—between our genes and our diet and lifestyle—is the driving factor behind the modern epidemic of chronic disease. This ancestral perspective:
- Asks better questions. It's a critical component to the trends that will define the future of healthcare.
- Provides new insight. It deeply informs our understanding of diet, physical activity, stress management, sleep, and other lifestyle factors.
- Realigns genome and exposome: It provides the key to offering customized nutrition and lifestyle plans for your patients.
But Clinical Skills Aren't Enough
To be successful in the 21st century, your practice needs to evolve too
As important as a functional medicine foundation and an ancestral perspective are, they are not enough to build a successful clinical practice today. You also face a myriad of business, operational, technological, and management challenges. To create a thriving 21st-century practice, you need solid, practical answers to questions like:
- How do I set up and structure a functional medicine practice?
- What is the best way to manage patient flow from initial consult through completion of treatment?
- Where do I find quality staff for my practice to offer high-touch patient care in a cost-effective manner?
- What are the best practices for onboarding new patients and doing thorough functional medicine intakes?
- How do I set up operations, billing, and procedures to keep my practice lean and profitable?
- What is the best Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system, and how do I set it up effectively?
- How can I best utilize the latest software tools to automate and streamline my workflow?
- And much more
This New Model Already Exists—But How Do You Learn It?
No school or program has ever offered training in functional medicine, ancestral nutrition and lifestyle, and practice management in one place
The good news is that a combined functional medicine and ancestral health approach with 21st-century practice management already exists and is being used by a globally recognized, pioneering group of clinicians to obtain phenomenal results.
The bad news is that you won't learn it in medical school or through conventional continuing medical education courses. Institutionalized medical education is hopelessly slow to evolve, in part because of conflicts of interest between education providers and the pharmaceutical industry.
It's also hard to find even in non-traditional educational settings. There are options out there that offer some of these elements individually, but none that offer all of them together.
If you do the math, you'll see that you'd have to spend $25,000 to $35,000 to get it all: functional medicine, ancestral health, practice management. But even then, you'd have to cobble it together from five or six different sources over the course of two to four years, and much of it is offered in outdated learning formats with not enough focus on practical application.
So where do you go to learn this cutting-edge approach to true healthcare?
The ADAPT Framework
Practitioner Training Program
Introducing the Only Comprehensive Functional & Ancestral Health Clinician Training Program
Modern clinician training including a complete practice management system
This one-year clinician training program is carefully designed to give you everything you need in three areas essential to your success: functional medicine, ancestral health, and practice management. Spreading it out over a year gives you deeper, more complex information without overloading you. You'll more easily integrate what you learn into your real-world practice incrementally as you go at a manageable pace.
Complete Functional Medicine Model
This is not just medical theory, but a complete functional medicine approach to care from the moment the patient walks through your door through the completion of treatment.
Ancestral Nutrition & Lifestyle
This is the only functional medicine course that teaches ancestral nutrition and lifestyle principles and how to apply them in clinical practice.
Practice Management Wisdom
Clinical skills are important, but they aren't enough on their own. Learn how to set up and manage your practice using the same tools and techniques that I use in my successful clinic.
Take a look below at a comprehensive course overview for details.
But, first, watch and read below what past students have to say about the course.
I've taken quite a few courses and this is the best one that I've taken. It was really money well spent. I think every Functional Medicine practitioner who wants to get better, and serve his patients better should take this course.
Sandi Bitenc
Former ADAPT Student
Watch Sandi's video responses to these questions below by clicking on the question
I cannot emphasize enough the benefits I have received from undertaking this program...
As a mid-career physician making the transition from pediatric anesthesia into functional medicine, I cannot emphasize enough the benefits I have received from undertaking this program. Chris teaches a targeted, scientifically supported functional medicine curriculum with comprehensive weekly lesson plans that won't overwhelm someone working full-time. The ADAPT Program has provided me with a potent, actionable system for success in treating patients using a functional and evolutionary approach.
Christian Tucker, MD
Section Head Pediatric & Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
I was stuck with my ability to problem solve my most complex patients...
I've felt that I was stuck with my ability to problem solve my most complex patients, a bit in a rut. This course has stimulated my thinking again and given me new tools and skills that have helped me get to the cause of my patients' illnesses. The ADAPT Course is very practical, it's scientifically based, and there are fantastic resources to share with patients. I have learnt that I always need to keep learning, to be honest.
Nijole Lloyd, FRACGP, DCH, MACNEM, FA5M
Adelaide SA, Australia
I can't think of a better decision that has been more worth it than enrolling in the Kresser Institute.
The knowledge, application, and business sense will all put you a step ahead of the game in every single area. You are literally taking shortcuts to paths in so many industries beyond just functional medicine.
I went from stressed out working 80 hours in my clinic a week to complete freedom of my schedule to be able to focus on research, learning and providing greater value to more and more people. I can't believe how quick the transformation was.
Since I started the training, I've used the core business principles to quadruple the revenue from my business.
Anthony Gustin, MS, DC
This is the most comprehensive functional medicine program I know of.
It not only includes in-depth study in functional medicine but also includes everything a practitioner needs to establish and run their practice.
Dawn Lovisa, MS, Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)
Functional Health Practitioner
The pace is perfect for both more experienced FMs and newbies.
The more experienced, or those with some FM experience like myself, definitely benefit from the foundational pieces.
Until now, my FM education had to be pieced together through many different avenues. It was lonely and a venture devoid in support.
I finally have an accessible community to run cases by and everyone is so helpful. This has been the best part! You can not put a price on 200+ experts at your fingertips.
Andrea Telfer-Karbo, Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP)
The course is absolutely worth the monetary and time investments required.
If you are struggling with how to incorporate functional medicine into your practice, ADAPT is an excellent option. It's the perfect mix of theoretical and clinical.
The learning experience has been great. Chris designed the course to maximize learning through exposure to materials via multiple avenues including audio, video, articles and quizzes - this has definitely improved my retention. The pacing is reasonable for a busy practitioner.
Brandon Heavey, FDN-P
Immediately & Effectively Use What You Learn This Year
Revolutionary medical training delivered in a revolutionary format
For this training, expect a unique learning experience. The topics are layered and integrated to mirror the way you'll use the information in real life. The training will unfold, like peeling an onion, so that you can apply what you learn a little at a time in a way that fits your life and creates immediate benefits for your practice. Based on best practices of learning theory, this course maximizes your retention and minimizes your effort. Most important, it goes beyond teaching information and theory and helps you hone your investigative approach and ability to use the new knowledge in a clinical setting to uncover and resolve patient health concerns.
Who should NOT take this course.
If you are not fully committed to a profession as a healer, if you are not already sold on the value of ancestral wisdom combined with functional medicine, if you are looking for something that will turn your whole business around in the next month, if you are already 100% happy with your level of patient care, if you are not ready to be challenged and encounter new information that may change how you practice, if you are not able to commit to participation and doing the work, then this course is not for you.
You'll never stop learning. Medicine will never stop changing.
The question is, will you be able to immediately and effectively use what you learn THIS YEAR with any other course of study in the same way you'll be able to hit the ground running with what you learn in ADAPT?
Curriculum at a Glance
Each learning track listed below is interwoven and unfolds in the weekly course work in a way that mirrors how we use the information in a real clinical setting
ADAPT Framework
A roadmap for working with patients
Optimizing the Exposome
Ancestral nutrition & lifestyle principles
Functional Medicine
Diagnostics and treatment in practice
Practice Management
Principles and tools for an evolved practice
Topic Spotlight
The ADAPT Framework
Materials in this topic area give you a complete roadmap—a systems model for functional medicine. Avoid a hit-and-miss, "whack-a-mole" approach with this logical, methodical, proven approach to patient care.
Course Overview
- Learning objectives and course syllabus
- How to get the most out of the course
The Future of Medicine
- The epidemic of modern disease
- A new approach to medicine
- Functional vs. conventional medicine
- Introducing the ADAPT functional medicine systems model
Patient Care
- Where do you start? Where do you go from there?
- How do you layer and structure an ADAPT framework treatment?
Optimizing the Exposome
Create fully personalized diet, supplement, and lifestyle protocols for your patients, all from an ancestral perspective. Discover the power of a Paleo template, and learn to create customized prescriptions for particular circumstances and needs, as well as for 13 of the most common health conditions you will see in your practice.
Functional/Ancestral Nutrition
- The Paleo template
- 14-, 30-, and 90-day diet adoption plans
- Pitfalls and compliance strategies
- Customizing for different conditions
- Autoimmune disorders
- Thyroid disorders
- Weight loss
- High cholesterol and heart disease
- High blood pressure
- GERD, IBS, IBD, and digestive issues
- Diabetes and blood sugar issues
- Anxiety, depression, and cognitive disorders
- HPA axis dysregulation
- Acne, eczema, and skin conditions
- Pregnancy, fertility, breastfeeding
- Customizing for different needs
- Women: hormones, pregnancy, etc.
- High-performance athletes
- Macronutrient ratios
- Meal frequency & timing
- Intermittent fasting
- Carb backloading
Basic Supplementation
- 3 principles of supplementing wisely
- 2 categories of supplementation
- Maintenance supplementation
- Vitamin A
- Vitamin D
- Magnesium
- Vitamin K2
- Vitamin C
- Iodine
- Nutrients to be cautious with
- Iron
- Calcium
- Vitamin E
- Beta-carotene
- Folic acid
Lifestyle and Environment
- Physical activity
- Physical activity–disease connection
- Move like your ancestors
- Overtraining
- Apps, tools, resources
- Sleep
- Sleep–disease connection
- Sleep hygiene
- Sleep nutrition
- Light management
- Apps, tools, resources
- Stress
- Stress–disease connection
- Core concepts
- HPA axis dysregulation
- Stress management
- Apps, tools, resources
- Environmental toxins
- Toxin–disease connection
- Minimizing exposure
- Support detoxification
- Apps, tools, resources
- Wrap up and patient resources
Functional Medicine
In-depth training for diagnosing and treating the most common chronic health conditions you'll encounter in your practice, from intake and testing to test interpretation and complete treatment protocols.
- Basic physiology
- Role in health and disease
- Pathology
- Risk factors
- Hypochlorhydria and impaired bile/enzyme production
- Infections
- Dysbiosis & fungal overgrowth
- Food intolerances
- Intestinal permeability
- Autoimmunity
- Diagnosis
- Food intolerances
- Myths & truths
- Recommended testing
- Gut pathologies
- Stool analysis
- Breath testing
- Urine organic acids
- Intestinal permeability
- Gut microbiome sequencing
- Food intolerances
- Treatments
- Two-stage treatment
- Specific protocols
- Dysbiosis/fungal overgrowth
- Parasites and H. pylori
- GERD/hypochlorhydria
- IBS-C/constipation
- Intestinal permeability
- Probiotics and prebiotics
- Lifestyle and behavior
- Advanced treatments
- Bringing it all together
HPA Axis Dysregulation (HPA-D)
- Basic physiology
- Etiology
- HPA-D vs. "adrenal fatigue"
- Pathology
- Diagnosis
- Signs and symptoms
- Lab tests: what to measure
- Assessment tools for perceived stress
- Comparison of available tests
- DUTCH adrenal profile
- Treatment
- Diet
- Behavior and lifestyle
- Adjunctive therapies
- Supplemental nutrients, botanicals, and hormones
- Building a protocol
- Bringing it all together
Functional Blood Chemistry
- How (and why) to use functional blood chemistry as a screening tool
- Principles of functional blood chemistry
- Functional vs. conventional ranges
- Recommended panel (and how to order)
- Blood chemistry patterns
- Hyperglycemia/metabolic syndrome
- Hypoglycemia
- Iron deficiency
- Iron overload
- B12 deficiency
- Vitamin D imbalance
- Zinc-copper imbalance
- Magnesium deficiency
- Thyroid imbalances
- Impaired kidney function
- Other metabolic patterns
- Impaired liver function
- Impaired gallbladder function
- Anemia (iron deficiency)
- Anemia (B12 and folate deficiency)
- Anemia (chronic disease)
- Dyslipidemia
- Infection and immune dysregulation
- Impaired methylation
- Bringing it all together
- Full blood panel interpretation
Practice Management
This material runs throughout the full 12 months of the course. Get everything you need to set up, run, and optimize your practice. Avoid clinician burnout and earn a great living.
How to Structure Your Practice
- Distributed/virtual vs. hyper-local
- The Case Review process: a new model of patient care
- Patient flow from start to finish
How to Operate Your Practice
- Staffing: key positions and roles
- Onboarding new patients
- The initial consult
- The Case Review
- Follow-up appointments
- Processing patient charts
- Insurance and reimbursement
- Patient communication
Back-End Systems
- Electronic Medical Record (EMR)
- Accounting/bookkeeping
- Legal
- Phone/PBX
- Scheduling
- File management
- Collaboration & video conferencing
- Hiring staff
- Policies and procedures
ADAPT Practitioner Training Program Timeline
Join the next group of Kresser Institute course graduates. Chart a path to your future with a single course that includes the unique combination of training you'll need for success. Take a look below at how the carefully designed format fits into your life and launches you to a whole new level in just one year.
The ADAPT Course Begins
Join a unique cohort of motivated and highly qualified medical pros. Be part of the revolution in functional/ancestral healthcare.
Manageable Pace
Just 2–4 hours/week with a full week break each quarter & multiple weekly Q&A times.
Quarterly Breaks
A one-week break every 3 months gives you time for a breather or to catch up.
Celebrate your success. In just one year you have transformed your future. Join our group of graduates for ongoing growth, networking, and professional development.
Time Commitment
Flexible time commitment of two to four hours per week, depending on your circumstances and goals.
Course Materials
Audio, visual, and written material to maximize learning and retention.
Q&A / Study Support
Regular live Q&A sessions with the clinical faculty and support for group and personal study.
Webinars with Chris
Monthly webinars with ADAPT clinical director Chris Kresser, for "grand rounds" case review and additional Q&A.
Recordings of All Q&As and Webinars
Downloadable recordings of Q&A sessions and webinars.
Review Quizzes
Low-stakes, no-pressure quizzes to help you assess your understanding and retain material as you go along.
Blood Chemistry Manual
Functional blood chemistry interpretation reference manual to deepen your knowledge.
Recommended Reading
Extensive lists of optional reading & resources.
Real Case Studies
Case-based learning format ensures that you gain practical, real-world application of what you are learning.
I thought I knew a lot about functional medicine before I took this course and have realized that what I knew was only the tip of the iceberg.
There is no other program like this. I cannot complain about anything in this course. It has changed so many things in a positive way for me.
The format is really perfect for someone who is very busy and it helps you to really learn the material. The pace is perfect and although it is not difficult, it is challenging in a good way.
My patients have really responded well to these protocols as well.
Becky Campbell, DC
Kresser Institute provides the tools needed for the success of both patient and practitioner.
A common question that health practitioners often say: "Well, this is great information, but now what?" Chris and his team provide concrete solutions for your clients and your business. If you've dabbled with continuing education in functional medicine, Kresser Institute provides the tools needed for the success of both patient and practitioner.
Brian Musial, LAc
The ADAPT program has provided me with a specific framework to identify root causes and outline a treatment plan for the clients I used to refer out.
Before starting ADAPT 2016, I struggled with complicated client cases, and would often refer them out to more experienced practitioners.
Now I feel confident handling clients with a wide array of symptoms and conditions, because I have the exact tools to treat them with maximum effectiveness. This has led me to begin expanding my business and client base, and I am on target to double my revenue this year! Thanks Chris and everyone at the Kresser Institute.
Nicole Jardim, Health Coach
I had a background in many of the topics, but from what felt like 'the sidelines'. What Chris has done is really bring me onto the playing field.
I'd spent a few years trying to understand and integrate pieces of the functional medicine model into my acupuncture practice, but with limited success. I loved the ideas, but I just didn't have enough facility, or enough...breadth of understanding, I guess.
If you're like me, with loads of good intentions, but need help pulling it all together...then ADAPT will help you make sense of the whole thing.
I had a background in many of the topics, but from what felt like 'the sidelines'. What Chris has done is really bring me onto the playing field.
Tripp Hanson, LAc, FDN
Real-World Skills for Real-World Patients
A case-based learning based on the Harvard Medical School model
Textbook-based medical education is ineffective and out of date because it doesn't train clinicians to apply what they learn in real-world settings. This is why the ADAPT training employs the same case-based learning format that leading institutions like Harvard Medical School have adopted. You'll get the theory you need, but you'll learn it in the context of lab results and case studies from real patients. Studies have shown that clinicians trained with a case-based format are better prepared and more effective than those trained with conventional textbook-based methods.
- Learning happens in the context of real lab results and patient cases
- Sample cases to illustrate diagnostic problem-solving, test interpretation, and treatment design
- Opportunity to bring your own real-world cases to monthly calls with Chris for review and discussion
Everything You Need in a Format That Fits Your Real Life
How you learn is just as important as what you learn
Unfortunately, almost everything we learned about how to learn in school was wrong! The "firehose" method of cramming a lot of new information into a short intense period results in horrible retention. The "brute force" memorization strategy to retain it just long enough to regurgitate it for a test doesn't promote understanding or the ability to use the information. These methods simply do not work.
This course is different. It is based on the latest research in learning theory to ensure that you absorb and retain as much as possible no matter your learning style and no matter how busy you are. After all, there's no point in investing your hard-earned time and resources in a training program if you're not even going to remember what you learn, much less be able to put it into practice!
- Topics are woven together and unfold in a way that mimics how you will need to apply the learning later
- The course encourages thinking, analysis, problem solving, and discovery—the same skills you need to work with patients
- The information is spread out over a year, which promotes greater comprehension and retention
- It is presented in audio, video, and written formats—with opportunity for writing, conversation, and questions—covering every learning style
The Only Practical, End-to-End, Functional and Ancestral Medical Training Available
Other Training Course Option 1
Other Training Course Option 2
Other Training Course Option 3
|Comprehensive functional medicine theory
|Clinical systems model and map to guide diagnosis and treatment
|Functional blood chemistry analysis
|Stool, saliva, urine test interpretation
|Paleo/ancestral nutrition training
|Paleo/ancestral lifestyle training
|Patient communication training
|Comprehensive practice management training
|Practice management toolkit with forms, procedures, and documents
|Patient education handouts with your clinic's branding
|Live interaction and Q&A with faculty members
|Case-based learning format to support real-world application of knowledge
|Delivered at a pace that is manageable and maximizes retention
|Evidence-based learning approach to support long-term mastery
|Preparatory course work to improve results in the full training course
If you combined some of the other training options, you'd spend at least two to three times more than you'll spend on the ADAPT course—and still not get everything it includes.
As an M.D., I have learned extremely important clinical information from Chris that was simply not taught to me throughout my five years of medical education…
Chris Kresser is at the forefront of the new medical model. Any astute physician knows that our current medical model is not designed to keep Americans healthy. It is designed to treat disease. This is equivalent to designing your financial portfolio to avoid bankruptcy—a necessary but insufficient goal. Chris has the vision, knowledge, and clinical experience to be a major influence in shaping the new medical model: one that OPTIMIZES health. Allopathic medicine does not yet have the tools to design such a system. It will have to come from practitioners like Chris Kresser. As an MD, I have learned extremely important clinical information from Chris that was simply not taught to me throughout my five years of medical education.
Kirk Parsley, MD
Former SEAL, Physician for West Coast SEALs, Division officer for SEAL Tactical Athlete Center
The ADAPT material is accessible for an entry-level FM practitioner.
It is also extremely thorough with lots of supplemental information and complexity.
ADAPT is allowing me to focus on FM and build my practice to another level where I am able to work independently and follow what I'm most interested in on a larger scale with a network of others doing the same.
Amber Wood, R.Ac.
Kresser Institute will play an important role in training the next generation of functional medicine practitioners…
Chris Kresser is one of the sharpest functional medicine clinicians and educators I know. I love his evidence-based, yet practical approach, and his blog and email newsletter are among the very few that I regularly read. I'm confident that the Kresser Institute will play an important role in training the next generation of functional medicine practitioners.
Mark Hyman, MD
Director, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine
Chairman, Institute for Functional Medicine
9-time #1 New York Times bestselling author
ADAPT will simply make you a better doctor.
It will help you get to the root of people's health issues. It gives you loads of patient education and protocols, so you don't have to spin your wheels figuring out what to do.
As a chiropractor, I had been seeing progressively sicker people come in with musculoskeletal complaints. Long-lasting health was more difficult to achieve. I had been doing some nutrition work with patients, but never knew where to start - gut, adrenals, thyroid? Or what tests were valid and the most useful. Or which were the best supplements to use.
Marcy Halterman-Cox, DC, RN
I am a dietitian and I would tell my peers that this is a much better investment than any other masters program available in our field.
The information you learn provides you with the ability to practically implement healing protocols with your patients in ways you never would have been able to with just going through the standard dietetic educational program.
Chelsea Gelina, RD
With the ADAPT program, my understanding of the human being has blossomed to another level.
I am able to help clients with more efficiency and address the exposome, which for me is an underrated key to health and wellness.
The ADAPT training has taken my practice to the next level. I have a waiting list and honestly I feel a bit overwhelmed by the number of clients looking to work with me. Truly a well thought out program! Heartfelt thank you.
Jator Pierre
The Optimal Practice System (O.P.S.)
Beyond education: a turn-key practice management system and tool kit
Imagine having not only the answers to your pressing logistical practice management questions, but also the written procedures and ready-made forms to go along with them.
Get over 100 guides, quick reference sheets, protocols, instruction sheets, forms, written policies, questionnaires, and handouts.
My goal with this course is to create more proficient, successful functional/ancestral medicine practitioners as quickly as possible. When I thought back on what it took to build my own practice—the trial and error, the consultants, the hiring mistakes, and the anxiety over creating procedures—I knew I had to provide more than just the training. I wanted to offer actual written policies and procedures and all the actual documentation you'd need to skip those first three years of struggle and trial and error.
Patient Intake Process
For a friction-free patient experience
Your initial interactions with patients set the stage for a smooth, successful relationship with a more actively involved patient—from establishing realistic expectations to collecting all the necessary paperwork quickly for a more friction-free patient experience.
- Patient intake questionnaires and surveys
- Initial consult script
- Informed consent paperwork
- The new patient guide
- Report of Findings template
- And more …
Practice Management Support
For faster staff training, fewer mistakes, and more efficient operations
Get a complete set of documents, templates, and written working procedures. Create a strong foundation, better-trained staff, and streamlined operations for a new or existing practice.
- Written procedures for major operational tasks
- Chart processing procedures
- Patient communication policy
- ICD-10 codes for superbills and labs
- Technology, software, and hardware recommendations
- And much more …
Clinician Handouts
Your new expertise at your fingertips in easy-to-use formats
What's often missing from other functional training is a system—with tools designed for day-to-day use—that empowers you to instantly apply what you've learned to your practice. That's exactly what you'll get in this training. The essential kit includes the reference guides and quick reference sheets you need to instantly access deeper expertise and use what you learn. Documents include:
- Functional blood chemistry manual
- Test interpretation guides
- Patient protocol matrices
- Structuring a treatment
- Test preparation guides
- And many more …
Over 50 Patient Handouts
With the option to easily add your branding/logo
Guide patients step by step through the big changes you're asking them to make. Boost compliance and get better outcomes, happier, healthier patients, and glowing testimonials. With energized word-of-mouth and referrals, you'll have a more stable flow of new patients and revenue. Our online system will allow you to instantly customize any patient handout with your own brand and logo. You'll get:
- 15 Paleo diet support handouts
- 10 condition-specific diet protocols
- 20 test prep and protocol guides
- Stress management guides
- Sleep improvement guides
- Organic food & shopping guide
- Living healthy on a budget guide
- Paleo for vegetarians guide
- Toxin-free home guide
- And much more …
Access to this turn-key system is worth the entire cost of this training course on its own
I've easily spent triple the cost of this course, more than $30,000, over the last five years to develop this system for my own practice. I've spent the time and money so you don't have to. Get unlimited access to all of this at no additional cost when you enroll in the ADAPT Framework clinician training.
You won't find any other resource that is more closely aligned to your practice needs—not to mention the ability to print over 50 different patient handouts with your own logo and branding on demand.
Ancestral wellness strategies have staggering potential to solve the biggest health issues of today.
A combination of scientific and clinical acumen, compassion, and unique gift to educate make Chris one of today's most influential and important health practitioners.
Dan Pardi, MS
CEO, Dansplan.com – Simplify Your Daily Health Practice
This course is an amazing bridge to get providers across the huge divide between Standard and Functional Medicine.
I have told other providers that this program has exceeded my exceptions. That it offers practice management education which is not offered by IFM or the Integrative Fellowship in AZ. This course is an amazing bridge to get providers across the huge divide between Standard and Functional Medicine. I am working on creating my own practice now while continuing to work doing Integrative Medicine. I know that when I open my practice, I will have many of the tools I will need to be successful and to offer myself a work-life balance.
Bodhi Anderson, PA-C
Adding the knowledge that ADAPT brings to the table is extraordinary. You will be elevated to the highest level of healthcare professionals.
I received a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner designation from Functional Medicine University in 2014. However, I never learned how to integrate that knowledge with practical situations.
Chris is all about teaching the integration of useful, current, and practical information from the start.
ADAPT is very detailed. This is not a cursory program where you could get the information from reading a book. The use of prerecorded videos, printed material, live webinars, and the Facebook forum have been outstanding.
Alvin Danenberg, DDS
Learning in this fashion exposes me to so much info that would have taken years to assimilate and is now available to me on demand.
Still working on the office procedures but I can see how it will help once I integrate more of the office management skills. Overall, helping so much.
Larry Silber, MD
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Upon completion, join a larger group of your peers, alumni of the course, and expand your network even further, sharing in resources, knowledge, collaboration, and camaraderie.
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Why spend the next five years cobbling together weekend intensives and disconnected trainings? Why struggle to build a practice foundation and develop documentation, policies, and procedures all on your own? Why spend over $25,000 on options that ultimately take more time and lack some of the critical elements you need?
Enrollment Spots Are Limited
Please note that we limit each enrollment in order to maintain the quality of the experience for each student in the cohort. We do expect to fill all the "seats" again this year like we did last year. So, if you want to be sure to get a spot, don't wait too long to enroll, and claim it.
Limited enrollment also means that when you enroll you are securing a "seat" in the course. Once the course begins, that seat is yours for the full year. Even though you are paying monthly installments, you are paying in full for a spot that we can't fill later even if you decide to drop out. Therefore, we do consider deferment and hardship requests, but we do not offer full or partial refunds. We are here to answer any questions you have and give you as much information as you need to confidently decide, in advance, to commit to the full year.
Some Frequently Asked Questions
This training is open to licensed health professionals, other trained allied health professionals, and some trained health coaches. Before enrollment, you'll be able to check your eligibility with a simple survey. If you do not qualify, you will see a secondary page that allows you to petition if you think that you should be considered for enrollment due to extenuating circumstances. Take the eligibility survey here. You can also visit the ADAPT Practitioner Training Program Eligibility page for more details about who is a good fit for this course.
No. This course provides a complete systems model for functional medicine.
Chris expects that anyone entering the course will have read his book, The Paleo Cure (previously published in hardcover as Your Personal Paleo Code and published internationally as Your Personal Paleo Diet). Beyond this basic ancestral nutrition overview, you do not need to have any other prior training in the ancestral perspective.
While Chris may offer certification in the future, and this course will likely be a part of that certification process, completing this course will not certify you in the ADAPT Framework. However, you will be awarded a certificate of completion stating that you completed the ADAPT Framework training with Chris Kresser, and if desired you will be listed in a directory of practitioners who have completed the Level One course at the Kresser Institute website. You will also get access to an official badge you can use in your marketing and on your site indicating you have completed this Level One ADAPT course.
Weekly quizzes are included in the year-long course for your convenience and to aid in the learning and retention process. However, they are low-stakes quizzes that are offered for your own benefit and are not tallied or tracked, nor are they considered as part of the certificate of completion. The certificate does not indicate your level of mastery. It simply affirms to others that you were indeed a participant in and completed the ADAPT Framework training. You are encouraged to use them, and in order to be listed in the directory of clinicians who have completed the training, you will need to have completed all the quizzes.
We estimate that most health professionals will need to spend two to four hours per week on this course. Some weeks may require more or less time than this, depending on your personal prior training and experience.
Strictly speaking, you are free to go at your own pace. New modules will become available according to a schedule, but you will have access to all released content for up to six months after the end of the course. If you fall behind, you will not miss any material. However, you may miss opportunities to fully take advantage of learning through Q&A sessions where the majority of the conversation focuses around the content that is on the schedule for that week or month. That said, you are free to ask about any content from any past section of the course during any of the weekly Q&A sessions. At the end of the course, you are free to continue your study; however, the weekly and monthly Q&A will be over. There is also a one-week break every quarter that you can use to catch up.
Strictly speaking, you are free to go at your own pace. New modules will become available according to the schedule, but you will have access to all released content for up to six months after the end of the course. You are free to ask about any of the course material at any of the weekly Q&A sessions. However, the Q&A sessions last for only the 12 months of the scheduled course.
Absolutely! This is a big part of the learning process in this course. There are weekly Q&A sessions with the Kresser Institute trained staff and a monthly webinar/Q&A with Chris Kresser. You'll be able to ask questions live and/or submit them prior to the Q&A sessions and webinars if you're not able to attend them, giving Chris and his staff time to prepare answers as necessary. Recordings of each Q&A session will be made available, so you can listen later if you can't make the live sessions.
Yes. There will be opportunities in the monthly Q&A with Chris Kresser to review real questions from real cases.
If you have additional questions not answered here, please simply email firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll do our best to find the information you require.
We hope that you'll have no reason to voluntarily quit. We've done our best to design a course that fits into even the busiest schedule. If you should need to temporarily interrupt your participation, you can return and continue at your own pace. You'll have access to the materials for six months following the end of the course, which will give you plenty of time to complete the course. This is a non-refundable, self-paced course. You are free to quit at any time, but you will not receive a refund and will still be required to complete your monthly payments until you have met your full course fee obligation.
The entire course was created personally by Chris Kresser, and all of the course materials are delivered by Chris (written, audio, video). Monthly webinar/Q&As will be directly with Chris as well. In between the monthly Q&A sessions, you'll have access to additional weekly Q&A sessions with members of Chris's staff that have been personally trained by Chris.
The systems model of approaching functional medicine and ancestral nutrition and lifestyle and the basic framework of practice management principles that Chris is teaching are applicable to practitioners all over the world.
However, some of the specific tests, treatments, and practice management tools that Chris will be recommending and teaching may not be readily available to all international practitioners. Also, for the blood chemistry unit, Chris will be teaching the lab ranges and values in US units. For these reasons, the training may not be as relevant and useful for international practitioners as it is for US-based practitioners.
Below is a complete list of lab tests Chris will be teaching along with their availability internationally. We also encourage potential sign-ups to contact the labs directly to confirm if you are able to order these tests.
- The Precision Analytical DUTCH Advanced Adrenal Assessment is available in Canada (Rocky Mountain Analytical) and Australia (Research Nutrition) and is expanding to other countries. There are only a few countries they cannot test in, so contact them for further information here.
- The Cyrex Arrays 2, 3, 4 & 10 are only available internationally in the UK and Ireland.
- The Doctor's Data Comprehensive Stool Analysis & Parasitology x3 is available in Canada (direct, or In-Common Lab in Ontario), the UK (Regenerus Lab), and Australia (Research Nutrition Lab).
- The BioHealth 401H is available in all countries internationally.
- The Commonwealth SIBO Breath Test is available internationally to licensed practitioners. However, their shipping rates are high. Genova offers a SIBO breath test that can be used as a substitute, and it has the same availability as the Genova Organix Comprehensive and Intestinal Permeability Assessment (below). Another alternative is Breathtrackers, which is available from Regenerus Labs (which also supplies Doctor's Data and Cyrex). This may be a better option than Genova for UK practitioners, as the test seems very similar to Commonwealth and the cost is much less.
- The Genova Intestinal Permeability Assessment and Genova Organix Dysbiosis Profile are available to international clinicians for patients in their own country through the website based on the country's specified distributor. An international clinician CANNOT order for a domestic patient unless the clinician has an office in the same state as the patient.
Because each country is different in terms of access to labs, supplements, and tools, we cannot make any promises to individual international practitioners about how relevant the training will be. Ultimately, you must weigh what Chris is offering against other options that you have in your country of residence or in the US.
If you have additional questions not answered here, please simply email firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll do our best to find the information you require.
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GLOSTRUP, DENMARK--(Marketwire - Jan 7, 2013) - Dako, an Agilent Technologies company,
announced today it has entered into a master framework agreement with Eli
and Company for the development of companion diagnostic tests to identify
patients who may be more likely to benefit from an investigational oncology
medicine currently under development by Lilly.
The agreement constitutes a framework for collaboration between Dako and
with a focus on the Lilly oncology pipeline.
"Building lasting partnerships is a cornerstone to Dako," says Lars
CEO of Dako and senior vice president, Agilent. "I warmly welcome Lilly,
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Companion diagnostics are increasingly in demand with the recognition that
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health-care costs by targeting treatments to individuals more likely to
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Dako has a strong heritage of developing diagnostic tests in collaboration
pharmaceutical companies. The collaboration with Lilly is another example
Dako's position in the clinical diagnostics market as a strong partner for
developing diagnostic tests for use in conjunction with medicines.
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Dako, based in Denmark, is a global leader in tissue-based cancer
Hospital and research laboratories worldwide use Dako's reagents,
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effective treatment for cancer patients. Dako, with 1,200 employees,
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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world's premier measurement
and a technology leader in chemical analysis, life sciences, diagnostics,
electronics and communications. The company's 20,500 employees serve
in more than 100 countries. Agilent had revenues of $6.9 billion in fiscal
2012. Information about Agilent is available at www.agilent.com.
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Can the Police search my phone without my consent?In 2014 US Supreme Court in Riley v. California, 573 U.S. ___ (2014) held that police needs a warrant to search the data on your phone. Notice that I put data not the phone itself. Police can check and search the "physical aspects" of your phone... read more
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Screens as Portals to the World, by Alyssa J. O'Brien
Graduate Students in the Writing Center, by John Peterson
and Joel Burges
awards outstanding student work with IRAs and OPRAs, compiled
by Wendy Goldberg & Chris Gerben
Publish Work in New Anthology: Official Book Introduction with
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Library Honors Boothe Prize Winner in Podcast
Rhetoric and Rhetoricizing Expression Inside and Outside of
the Prison System, by Donna Hunter
Knowledge? How Race, Class, Religion & Gender Intersect
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Instructors Leaving the Farm
This Spring
edition of the PWR Newsletter is focused on the students of Stanford
University. As instructors, we naturally interact with our students
in the classroom, our offices, and the Writing Center. However,
we likewise support these young scholars as they venture into
research and publication beyond the Farm. We are therefore devoting
this edition to highlighting some of the more extraordinary achievements
in student-teacher interactions: from awarding our students'
exemplary work to facilitating student discourse across continents.
The faculty of the Program in Writing and Rhetoric is of course
committed to scholarly exploration in our program and our field,
but first and foremost to our students. To honor that, we present
this Newsletter.
I have been
very fortunate to be the editor of this publication, and a member
of this outstanding group of instructors, this year. Before passing
the reins, I'd like to personally thank former editor Mark
Feldman and web editors Christine Alfano and Corinne Arraez for
their contributions and guidance. And of course, I'd like
to acknowledge the always inspirational direction of Andrea Lunsford
and Marvin Diogenes. On behalf of all the instructors devoted
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■ 2015년 1월 8-10일 중국 시안에서 열린 2015 AAPA (The Asian Association for Public Administration) International Conference에서 성균관대 국정관리대학원 박성민 교수님 연구팀 (김민영 연구원, Miao Qing 교수, 박성민 교수, 오현규 연구원)이 우수논문상을 수상하였습니다.
(논문제목: A Revisit to the Concept and Role of Entrepreneurial Leadership in the Public Sector: Exploring Ways to Boost Positive Attitudes and Behaviors of Chinese Public Employees)
■ 연구요약: This study investigated the meaning and construct of entrepreneurial leadership of the enhancement of organizational consequences in Chinese public sectors. Hypotheses and a research model were designed to determine the antecedents and consequences factors of entrepreneurial leadership from the perspective of the social exchange theory. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that there was a significant construct of entrepreneurial leadership in Chinese public sectors which developed by western culture. And structural equation modeling revealed that entrepreneurial leadership positively influence on affective and cognitive trust. Second, entrepreneurial leadership might be boosting by co-worker and organization support. Finally, affective trust was also identified as the mediator variable underlying the relationship between entrepreneurial leadership and organizational consequence (i.e., managerial accountability and creative behavior). We show that entrepreneurial leadership of supervisors elicits higher levels of trust in the organization and leads the employees to interaction by revealing a higher level of managerial accountability and creative behavior. Our results provide greater support for the deepening of administrative reforms and the dissemination of entrepreneurial leadership practices in China's new civil service system.


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Many businesses need to determine that their systems have been adjusted for the Prince Edward Island harmonized sales tax (HST) rate increase to 15% (from 14%) that will be effective 1 October 2016.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and you feed yourself. He's a grown man, fishing's not that hard.
I've had to learn and discipline myself that I'm much happier and much less depressed if I give myself a project. It's just that simple.
No matter how you decide to spend a little more time on your gestures of giving, the point is just quite simply that you do.
I always call performing live "giving the people the medicine," because when you're engaged in it, you can feel the sort of soul magic being exchanged between the performer and the audience.
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Former Arlington Heights Trustee Ed Duffy dies
Former Arlington Heights trustee and Arlington Park executive Ed Duffy, a longtime advocate of horse racing in Illinois, died Saturday.
Duffy's varied career included time with the Chicago Police Department, working for former Illinois Gov. Jim Thompson and lobbying in Springfield.
"He was respected in the community. He was respected in Springfield," said state Rep. David Harris, an Arlington Heights Republican.
Former Arlington Heights Mayor Arlene Mulder said Duffy was on the board that helped develop North School Park into the space it is now instead of letting it become a commercial or housing development.
Now, all the bricks there commemorating park donors' marriages and births of children are "a tribute to his vision," Mulder said.
"He's one of those people that don't get a lot of recognition but get a lot of things done," she said.
Duffy retired from the village board in 1989, the same year former Trustee Steve Daday was first elected, but that didn't stop him from continuing to share his thoughts on the direction of the village.
"He would call me when he thought I wasn't doing something the way it should be done or to congratulate me when he liked a decision," Daday said.
He wasn't afraid to stand up for a development he believed in, even if that meant going against some neighbors, such as when Lutheran Home was looking to expand and develop town homes, Daday remembered.
"That was very hotly contested and the neighbors were not happy, but (Ed) thought it was a good thing and that the community needed it," he said. "He foresaw the need for more senior housing in Arlington Heights and it became one of the first developments like that in the area."
Duffy was also on the village board when the master plan was approved to virtually rebuild downtown Arlington Heights, where he later lived.
"He was one of the architects of that," Daday said.
Duffy worked at Arlington Park after time on the village board and was an executive at Sportsman's Park in Cicero after that.
Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen Association President Mike Campbell said Duffy was the group's first lobbyist in the late 1990s.
"His enthusiasm encouraged other people to be enthusiastic about horse racing," Campbell said.
He is survived by his wife Nancy, five daughters and eight grandchildren.
A visitation will be held beginning at 3 p.m. Friday at Countryside Funeral Home & Crematory, 950 S. Bartlett Road, Bartlett, followed by a service at 8 p.m. at the funeral home.


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Grand Canyon National Park Climber's Log
farrisgl - Mar 10, 2009 3:03 am Date Climbed: Apr 10, 1973South Rim as a Day Hike & 3 Day Backpack Trip
I have both backpacked and day hiked to Phantom Ranch on seperate occassions. My backpack trip, while I was in college during spring break. Very cold on the rim with a couple feet of snow. 80 degrees at Phantom ranch.
ArankaP - Mar 5, 2009 10:19 pm Date Climbed: Jul 29, 2005Bright Angel - Plateau Point
Started hiking 2:30 afternoon and planed to go only to the Bright Angel. Kept walking up to Plateau Point. Gorgeous views. Finished in the dark. Temperature 110°F, newer drink so much water in one day.
davidjhoopes - Nov 27, 2008 10:09 pmRim to Rim to Peak
Went R2R (N to S) on day 1, then cycled 80+ miles to base of humphries on day 2 then climbed humphries on day 3. Meg (my wife) and a bunch of other family/friends came along. Great adventure.
nextyearranier - Nov 4, 2008 2:27 pm Date Climbed: Nov 10, 2003My Walk Through Time
South Rim to Bright Angel Campground via South Kaibab (down) and then Bright Angel (up). The trip of a lifetime. Next up- North Rim!
395guy - Oct 29, 2008 12:55 am Date Climbed: Oct 22, 2008r2r2r
backpacked 45 miles in 3 days... SRim to NRim to SRim... down S Kaibab trail, up & down N Kaibab trail, and then up Bright Angel trail... camped at Cottonwood and Bright Angel campgrounds... 14 miles on first day, 21 miles on second day, and 10 miles on third day. Perfect weather. Awesome trip.
srclimb1 - Oct 14, 2008 4:59 pm Date Climbed: Sep 20, 2008South Kaibab to Phantom Ranch up Bright Angel
I've done some pretty good hikes; but this is one of my all time favorites!!!
srclimb1 - Oct 14, 2008 4:56 pm Date Climbed: Sep 18, 2008Grand View Mesa-Horseshoe Mesa
Nice day hike...Steep, and a bit rocky, but certainly cuts down on the traffic of Bright Angel!
davebobk47 - Oct 6, 2008 4:40 pm Date Climbed: Oct 3, 2008Clouds and Rain!
South Kaibab to Phantom Ranch then up Bright Angel back to the S Rim. Rained the second day. Saw 2 Elk, 1 Rattlesnake, and many deer.
BigRob - Sep 17, 2008 3:34 pm Date Climbed: Apr 11, 2008Rim to Rim to Rim
Camped out two nights at Cottonwood. 1. Bright Angel to Cottonwood 2. Cottonwood CG to North rim and back 3. Cottonwood to S. Rim Via S. Kaibab
dpsiebert - Aug 23, 2008 5:40 amBright Angel and S Kaibab
I've made 5 trips to the bottom over the years. They were all a lot of fun, but my favorite trip was with my Dad.
Shaylee - Aug 17, 2008 11:45 am Date Climbed: Dec 25, 2007Grand Canyon
Bright Angel Trail Christmas 2007:
Great trip with the crew. See the trip album.
Fredd C Dobbs - Aug 4, 2008 12:42 am Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2008Must Return
First time at GCNP- will return to hike Bright Angel Trail!
tleaf - Jun 1, 2008 2:54 pm Date Climbed: Dec 5, 1999Beautiful Hiking
nearly rim to rim headed down the south kaibab trail and back up the bright angel trail. We stayed 3 nights and 'almost' made it to the north rim but our cocktail of travelers were not motivated. Great trip!
asaking11 - May 27, 2008 5:38 pm Date Climbed: Apr 14, 2007Spectacular!
Did the Lava Falls trail with some friends. That sign at the begining of the trail means what it says. Take lots of water! We ran out on the way back. I have also done the South Kiabab a few years ago.
StumblingBear - May 19, 2008 2:42 pm Date Climbed: Aug 12, 1971Southern Side
Made a number of hiking trips, mostly Bright Angel to Phantom Ranch area(campground) Indian Gardens, Plateau Point, etc. Also got to get a tour of air quality monitoring the park does, most impressive. The day I was there was a clear day they have about 3 percent of the time. Have also made the hike into Supai.
edevart - Apr 20, 2008 9:36 pmThe Canyon
Rim to rim as part of Everett Ruess Trail. Hiked into a closed north rim in April of 2001--had the campground on Bright Angel Point all to myself--not a single other camper there. Hiked into the canyon via North Kaibab trail and up to the South Rim via the South Kaibab.
Many other times while living in Flagstaff.
RedTreachery - Apr 20, 2008 3:19 pm Date Climbed: Apr 17, 2008Can't Stand It...
The Grand Canyon itself is amazing, but I can't stand all the people at the beginning who are visiting and think because they've read the warning signs they can lecture you on if you're prepared enough... and I was. I was having trouble realizing how big the canyon really was when I started, then once I finished and looked down I could really take it all in.
Kenneth.alone - Apr 13, 2008 3:26 pm Date Climbed: May 25, 2007Wonderful
Wonderful place down there. I'll do it again.
jimegan - Apr 10, 2008 10:56 am Date Climbed: Sep 13, 2003RTRTR
South to North and return next day with Alan and Luba
Ditto route 10/13 and 14 2007 with Mike B et al


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Your Kids Will Love These Children's Books Illustrated by Famous Artists
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Title: Flowers 69
Medium: Screenprint on paper.
Year: 1970
Size: 36″ x 36″
Edition: Edition of 250. Signed in ballpoint pen and numbered with a rubber stamp on verso Portfolio of ten.
Flowers 69 is a screenprint created in 1970 and is from one of Andy Warhol's most popular series. It is well known and a favorite among Andy Warhol collectors. Warhol got many of his source images by appropriating them from other artists, or from advertisements and magazines. Flowers is based on a photograph of a cluster of hibiscus flowers taken by nature photographer Patricia Caulfield. Warhol cropped the image and printed it in vibrant color combinations characteristic of the pop art king. In this print, Warhol used a fluorescent pink and yellow background to create the grass, with vibrant purple, orange, and light pink flowers in the foreground. Flowers is from a portfolio of ten screenprints and remains one of Andy Warhol's most iconic prints.
Series: Flowers, 1970
Signature: Signed by Andy Warhol in ballpoint pen and numbered with a rubber stamp on verso.
Obsessed with celebrity, consumer culture, and mechanical (re)production, Pop artist Andy Warhol created some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. As famous for his quips as for his art—he variously mused that "art is what you can get away with" and "everyone will be famous for 15 minutes"—Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk-screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color. Known for his cultivation of celebrity, Factory studio (a radical social and creative melting pot), and avant-garde films like Chelsea Girls (1966), Warhol was also a mentor to artists like Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. His Pop sensibility is now standard practice, taken up by major contemporary artists Richard Prince, Takashi Murakami, and Jeff Koons, among countless others.
American, 1928-1987, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, based in New York, New York
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livery: the scarlet and white tricorn hat and the white sleeveless shirt with the Duke's heraldic arms on its chest-- red and green concentric circles pierced by a black arrow.
The street led always downward, for the city had been built on the foothills of the mountains. It wandered here and there and gave Green plenty of time to think.
The trouble was, he thought, that if the two imprisoned men at Estorya were to die before he got to them he'd still be lost. He had no idea of how to pilot or navigate a spaceship. He'd been a passenger on a freighter when it had unaccountably blown up, and he'd been forced to leave the dying vessel in one of those automatic castaway emergency shells. The capsule had got him down to the surface of this planet and was, as far as he knew, still up in the hills where he'd left it. After wandering for a week and almost starving to death he'd been picked up by some peasants. They had turned him in to the soldiers of a nearby garrison, thinking he must be a runaway slave on
This title seems to have been withdrawn; it\'s no longer listed at Project Gutenberg. The audiobook is still listed and downloadable.I had this but lost it somehow and now can\'t find it anywherel
A very light, quirky and uneven adventure story: Earthman Alan Green is shipwrecked and enslaved on an unknown barbarian planet, where he is forced to minister to the whims of two very demanding women. He is without hope until he hears of "two men who have fallen from the sky in a great ship of iron" in another country and resolves to escape and join them.
Green is an odd sort of antihero, not exactly likeable, and ranging from hapless to ingenious. I agree with the previous reviewer that the ending is a letdown. Still, the tale mostly moves along, Farmer has a fun-to-read style, and his world is extremely interesting.
Well written, but ultimately anticlimactic story. I enjoyed several scenes in this tale and was hoping for an ending to make the uninteresting parts worth trudging through, but was sadly dissapointed. Would not recommend.
Fine adventure storytelling by a master.
A well structured and imaginative book.
Alan Green is an astronaut trapped on a planet where superstition holds the masses. Two years after crashing on the unknown planet he hears a rumour of other astronauts and sees an opportunity to escape.
However, superstition has demonised science on the planet. The travellers from space are condemned as demons and Green has to keep his own history and his plans secret from those around him. The story chronicles his journey to the distant city where his hopes of escape lie. Within that is the constant clash of the people around him and an imaginitive menagerie of cultures.
Well worth reading.
ANYTHING by Philip Jose Farmer is good, his approach to the Mystical is opposite to Clarke, he does not seek to rationalise in a dogmatic way, but rather lays out his wares for all to judge and appraise, and as the Victorians use to say "It's a Rattleing good Yarn"


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By Alan Herbert
Before selling your coins online or to local coin collecting shops, Subscribe to a NumisMaster Coin Price Guide today, and discover what your coins are really worth.
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A frequent question from numismatic newcomers: "I have a coin. What is it worth?"
With certainty, the answer is that no one can tell anything about that coin from the owner's all too brief description. If you have coins to sell, it is natural that you might wonder where you can sell the coins. The first, and most obvious answer is that you can buy and sell coins at your local coin shop. Coin shops serve as excellent locations where you can sell coins, as well as get more information about coins in general.
If you want to know how to sell old coins, or any coins for that matter, you need to start with a detailed description of the merchandise. Tell us as much about the coin as possible – denomination, date, mintmark, anything that looks "wrong." Always helpful is to note the apparent metal, if you want to sell gold or silver coins, or just modern clad coins, make a note of the coin's composition. A sketch of the coin, and a record of the wording on both sides, may be vital to identification, even if you include a photo or scan.
This is especially important if you are asking about a minting variety. Photos or scans of old coins you want to sell are useless if they are blurred, so get things in focus. Don't waste money on a professional photo until you have a firm value for your coin. Few professionals are equipped to photograph coins.
The alternative is a rubbing, either with a soft pencil or aluminum foil. The problem is that neither one will survive a trip through the mail. A pencil rubbing will smear and a foil rubbing will look like it had been run over by a steamroller. You need to encase the rubbing in a reversed 2x2 cardboard holder or a small box, so that there is no pressure on the rubbing.
Don't be afraid to ask if you feel you have a coin that has potential value. All too many collectors decide their coin is rare and valuable so they sit on it, in hopes of finding more.
Coin price guides mostly quote retail prices for coins. This is because dealers use wholesale prices and add their individual markup, so no two dealers are likely to have the same retail prices. Coin dealers won't give you wholesale prices, but they may give a small discount if you look like a good customer.
When you do find a dealer that meets your standards, hang on to him or her. The more business you do, the more you are likely to profit from buying. Most dealers are happy to share their expertise with regular customers.
Before buying that beautiful coin offered on TV, try the local coin dealers. In most cases, they can provide the same coin at a fraction of the cost. When you sell, expect offers that are discounted heavily from the retail value, unless the coin is especially valuable, or one the dealer needs for a client. Like collectors, most dealers specialize; keep this in mind if you are trying to figure out where to sell gold coins, where to sell silver coins or where to sell old coins, the answer might be the same shop, or perhaps, three different shops.
Many collectors make the mistake of expecting full retail from a dealer. Like any other business, the coin dealer has to buy at wholesale in order to profit on a retail sale to pay the help, rent, taxes and other expenses of doing business.
Coin shops are businesses, and despite the prices listed in price guides, the average dealer has no use for rolls of circulated clad quarters, halves and dimes, or nickels and cents. The dealer has no market, since anyone with time on their hands can search rolls of coins. What this boils down to is that – except for the odd silver coin that shows up – you should spend the coins, rather than keeping them for a dreamed of day when a dealer wants them. Even dealers don't know how to sell a coin that there is no demand for on the market.
Collectively there are probably millions of dollars worth of coins that are being hoarded, both by collectors and the public, based on the assumption that they will gain in value as they get older. The assumption is based in part on fact, but any appreciation will be painfully slow. It will be even slower than the better choice, a savings account. The important thing to remember is that in nearly all cases uncirculated grade coins will appreciate much more quickly than coins that are worn. This applies to bullion coins as well. If you are looking to sell bullion coins, you can expect to get at least the spot price of the precious metal in the coin, but dealers are still going to account for their profit margin.
Most price guides show the retail value of the coin, usually in several grades. This is confusing to the novice trying to figure out how to sell coins, who assumes that is the price someone will pay for the coin. The important point to understand is that the retail price is a base. Every dealer deducts his or her profit margin from the retail figure, just as every other business does. Be happy that coin dealers don't use the really complicated formulas that are used in other instances.
Don't make the mistake of trying to sell your coins by putting an ad in the local newspaper. You are asking to get your coins hijacked, even if you meet your potential customers in a bank. It's unsafe at any speed. Most local coin clubs have swap meets or auctions where you are likely to do better and be in a safe environment. Like most aspects of numismatics, research is important, knowing where you can sell a silver coin isn't just about having silver coins to sell, it is about knowing the value of the coin, and taking safe, reasonable measures to realize that value.
Many "vest pocket" dealers offer coins for sale in the hobby publications classified sections, just remember, until you can grade for yourself, you need to be careful of the offers. Knowing how to sell silver coins, or any coins, is just as important as knowing how to buy them. And just like when buying, it is important to keep a careful record of what you sell, and for how much.
When selling a collection, sell the coins as a group. Don't let anyone "cherry pick" the collection by buying the valuable coins and leaving the lower valued pieces behind. Make a list of your coins, showing exactly what you paid for each one. If you cannot show proof you paid a premium for a coin, the IRS will take the difference between the sale price and the face value of the coin as taxable profit. Picture what that does to $20 gold coins you might sell. Copy this paragraph and post it where you can't miss it.
When selling, take your list and a few sample coins and shop them to several dealers to find the one with the most interest in your collection. Talk to a dealer you trust if you have questions about where you can sell, especially if you have rare old coins, or gold and silver coins. If the collection is large or valuable, you will want to find an appraiser to give you an idea of the value before you try to sell it. Here again, the list comes in handy.
Coin dealers have had a bad rap. The public perception of coin dealers ranks them down close to used-car salesmen. This is an unfair assessment, due mainly to the fact that the public knows next to nothing about coin collecting. Their only contact probably was to try and sell some coins. Or they may have heard of a neighbor's "bad deal."
Word of mouth is great advertising for a firm, but it can never catch up with bad mouthing. While there are a few bad apples in the bunch, the majority of coin dealers are like any retailer, hard-working assets to the community. They are great sources of information, depending on their specialty, on where and how to sell gold coins, or where you can sell old coins. As previously mentioned, dealers, like collectors, are specialists, keep this in mind.
A big part of the problem is the misconception that coin dealers somehow differ from all other businesses that pay wholesale prices for the merchandise they sell at retail. Many collectors get furious when they are offered a discounted price for their coins. They display their ignorance of common business practices by this attitude and the result is unwarranted bad press for the dealer.
The solution is to realize that buying and selling coins is, in fact, a business, and it will not survive if there is no profit. You, in turn, have several ways to ensure that you are not being ripped off. It's a good idea when doing business with a dealer you are unfamiliar with to first make several small purchases or sales.
Questions to ask yourself include, "Was the dealer courteous? Did he know his stock? Was the coin accurately graded? Were you satisfied with the cost?"
If the dealer passes the test you've found a good place to do business on a larger scale. This is the same thing you would do when buying anything. What's different between buying a coin or going into a hardware store and buying a pound of nails? Or going to a grocery store? Coin prices fluctuate. So does the price of grapes or bananas. The grocer buys from the producer at wholesale and sells at retail.
Once you see the coin dealer as a business person, you will have come a long way toward a successful relationship with the dealer.
It will surprise you, but one of the biggest problems that dealers have are collectors trying to rip them off in any of a hundred ways, not limited to the thief who stuffs his pockets with coins when the dealer isn't looking or is taking care of a legitimate customer. That's one reason why you see heavy security at coin shows.