The local clinic, Optimized Wellness Center, “takes a whole- person approach to healthcare, seeking to treat the underlying causes of disease and injury rather than treating the symptoms themselves,” according to its website. The clinic is offering free seminars on several health-related topics held on Thursdays over the next three months.

Symbolic Vision and Seeing the Bigger Picture

• Aug. 23, 7 p.m. Discuss how change in thought or vision can lead to change in the physical environment.

Amino Acid Therapy

• Sept. 13, 7 p.m. Learn how diet and lifestyle factor into every aspect of human health. Leave with specific details of dietary recommendations based on the latest research, ways to age gracefully and protect the heart.

Living with an Open Heart 

• Sept. 27, 7 p.m. This seminar focuses on recovery from and overcoming pains of the past. 

Foods that Help to Prevent Disease

• Oct. 11, 7 p.m. Everyone fears cancer, but who really knows what it is, how it occurs and, more importantly, how to avoid it? This talk will provide specific insights into foods which will reduce cancer risk and stop the growth of cancer.

How to Feed the Soul

• Oct. 25, 7 p.m. No one wants cancer. There is so much information out there, and much of it is simply wrong or too complicated. This seminar will teach the 10 ways to greatly reduce risk for all forms of cancer.