Build Your Foundation: Evidence-Informed Integrative IBD Care
A comprehensive, evidence-led approach to managing inflammatory bowel disease that bridges conventional medicine with proven integrative therapies.
Living With IBD Shouldn't Be This Hard
If you're struggling with inflammatory bowel disease, you know the challenges all too well.
- Constant Uncertainty: You've tried multiple treatments, but still experience unpredictable flares that disrupt your life plans and leave you feeling powerless.
- Medication Concerns: You may feel unsure about your medications due to alarming information online, limited time with your doctor, or feeling dismissed when raising concern, yet you also recognize their importance in managing IBD and want to weigh the risks carefully.
- Information Overload: Searching online gives you conflicting advice from questionable sources, making it impossible to separate science from pseudoscience.
- Dismissive Healthcare: You may feel dismissed by healthcare providers when you raise questions about diet, supplements, and lifestyle, leaving you to experiment on your own without guidance.
- Lost Freedom: You've given up activities you love because of bathroom anxiety, pain, and fatigue, severely impacting your quality of life.
- Feeling Isolated: Friends and family try to understand, but you lack a community of people who truly grasp what you're going through.
Transform Your IBD Journey
The Foundational IBD Course provides the knowledge, tools, and community you need to take control of your health.
Evidence-Based
Our course is grounded in scientific research, ensuring you get reliable, proven strategies.
Comprehensive Coverage
Over 10 hours of expert-led content covering every aspect of integrative IBD care from diagnostics to emerging treatments.
Practical Implementation
Downloadable resources, tracking tools, and step-by-step guides to help you apply what you learn immediately.
Supportive Community
Connect with others on similar journeys through our moderated forum (free access for 3 months included).
Provider Collaboration
Knowledge to help you have productive conversations with your healthcare team about integrative approaches.
Imagine a future where you confidently manage IBD with integrative, evidence-informed care.
Join thousands of IBD patients who have transformed their health journey through evidence-based integrative approaches.
Brought to you by...
Drs. Natalie Scheeler, Mark Davis,and Claudia Bustamante
With over 20 years of combined clinical experience treating thousands of patients, we bring proven expertise and a deep understanding of the patient journey to make expert care more accessible. Our content is grounded in real clinical practice, with an unwavering focus on safety and evidence-based approaches that you can trust.
Course Curriculum
A comprehensive approach to managing your IBD through evidence-based integrative strategies.
- Module 1: Introduction to IBD. Start here! Learn what IBD is and how it develops. Meet the Foundational Medicine team, explore our integrative approach, how to navigate the course, and get familiar with key terms and concepts.
- Module 2: Labs & Imaging. Learn about common labs and imaging used in both conventional and integrative care—what they show, why they're ordered, and what we’re looking for.
- Module 3: Therapeutic Diets and Nutrition. Explore common therapeutic diets and nutrition strategies to support the management and overall health of individuals with IBD.
- Module 4: Drug Therapies. Learn about conventional and off-label drugs, risks, drugs to approach with caution, and how to feel confident in your treatment choices, including what to consider if thinking about stopping meds.
- Module 5: Supplements. Discover research-backed supplements that may support IBD management and how to choose the right ones for your health.
- Module 6: Herbal Medicine. Explore herbal medicine categories, common herbs, and the research on their safe and effective use (or avoidance) in IBD management.
- Module 7: Microbial Medicine. Learn about microbial therapies like FMT, probiotics, and prebiotics, including their roles and research in supporting IBD management.
- Module 8: Helminthic Therapy. Discover the concept of helminthic therapy, its potential role, and the current research on using helminths to modulate immune response in IBD.
- Module 9: Lifestyle Medicine. Explore how sleep, stress, exercise, and environmental factors impact IBD, and learn strategies to support your overall health and well-being.
What others are saying...
Patrick Hanaway MD, IFMCP
"Coming "
Lise Alschuler, ND, eMBA
"Dr. Davis is an exemplary instructor. He has a unique ability to energize an evidence-based integrative approach to digestive disorders, IBD in particular, with clinically-informed perspectives. His enthusiasm for integrative self-care of IBD is informative and inspirational."
Ilana Gurevich, ND, LAc, FABNG
"I’ve had the privilege of learning from Mark Davis for over a decade. Every time I hear him speak, I walk away with new insights that immediately shift my perspective on health. His ability to break down complex concepts into tangible takeaways makes it easy to absorb and apply the material quickly. I always learn something new—and useful—from him. "
Steven Sandberg-Lewis, ND, DHANP
"Dr. Mark Davis is a superb educator. Charismatic, creative, intelligent and extremely knowledgeable about IBD, he thinks outside the box with innovative approaches to sustaining remission and creating balance. I highly recommend this course on integrative self-care for IBD."
