Dr. Terry Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa where she conducts clinical trials.  In 2018 she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Linus Pauling Award for her contributions in research, clinical care and patient advocacy. She is also a patient with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. Dr. Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day. She is the author of The Wahls Protocol: A Radical New Way to Treat All Chronic Autoimmune Conditions Using Paleo Principles.

These lectures were part of the 2020 Advanced Practice Module for the Institute for Functional Medicine Bio-energetics module. Dr. Wahls uses a functional medicine approach to evaluate patients with multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s, cognitive decline, and mental health issues to understand how the patient’s genetics, diet, environmental exposures, and current symptoms can be used to specify their care. These lectures will break down complex concepts and better equip you to help those with complex chronic neurodegenerative disorders and grow their motivation to make the needed changes.

Dr. Wahls provides an overview of the various healing diets you and your family can choose from. These diets include the Anti-Inflammation (Pre-Wahls) Diet, Wahls™ Diet, Wahls Paleo™ Diet, Wahls Paleo Plus™, and Wahls Elimination Diet. She will also discuss the role of food sensitivity testing and strategies to heal increased intestinal permeability, also known as leaky gut.

Dr. Wahls explains how to identify where you are in the continuum of managing your disease. How aggressive are you with self-care and treatment strategies? She then presents strategies for improving emotional, physical, and metabolic resilience. She will also review the role of evolutionary biology in health promotion and improving our self-care routines.

Dr. Wahls will review strategies to support the liver and kidneys as they process and eliminate lead, mercury, arsenic, and other heavy metals. She will summarize dietary and supplement strategies that can be added to your self-care routine. In addition, she will discuss the Hero’s journey and elements of the pleasant life, good life, and meaningful life and other strategies to enhance emotional resilience.

Dr. Wahls will review the role of hormesis, a key strategy for improving metabolic resilience and increasing resistance to chronic disease that induces mild to moderate stress and then offers sufficient time for cellular recovery. She will guide a discussion on how to add more hormetic stressors to our regular self-care routines.

Dr. Wahls walks through the timeline again to deepen your understanding of your life events, health events, and environmental exposures and their impacts on your current state of health. You will then break out into small groups and discuss the insights you gained from your timelines. Hearing others describe the connections they uncovered in their timelines will further your own understanding of environmental and life exposures and your current state of health. It will also help you target your self-care efforts to improve your health effectively and efficiently and complete your vitality and health behavior timeline according to Dr. Wahls’ guidance.

When was the last time you extinguished an undesirable bad habit or added a new desirable good habit? What are the steps to more successful habit creation or removal of bad habits? In this interactive exercise, Dr. Wahls will teach us how to improve the stickiness of new habits we want to establish. These skills can be applied to adopting and sustaining desirable health habits that can change the trajectory of your healing journey.

Dr. Wahls will review the Vitality and Health Behavior Timeline and guide a discussion of how to identify which self-care practices will be the most impactful for you based on your unique timeline.

Dr. Wahls will provide an update on the status of the most current dietary studies in the setting of multiple sclerosis, including observational and intervention studies that focus on dietary patterns and foods (as opposed to supplement-based interventions).

Dr. Wahls will guide us through reflections on the key insights from the Seminar, changes we have already experienced, and changes we plan to implement to create more health.

What could you do if your health moderately improved in a year? Dr. Wahls will help you develop a big hairy audacious goal (BHAG) as well as Smart Goals to help you get there.

Ken Sharlin, M.D., M.P.H., IFMCP, is a board-certified neurologist and functional medicine practitioner.  He received his medical degrees from Emory University, and functional medicine education through The Institute for Functional Medicine.  He was the first physician to be recognized as a Wahls Protocol Certified Health Professional.  In addition, Dr. Sharlin has trained in the Bredesen Protocol for Reversal of Cognitive Decline (ReCODE) in Alzheimer’s disease.  He practices general neurology, conducts clinical research in multiple sclerosis, and directs his functional medicine program, Brain Tune Up!, through his clinic, Sharlin Health and Neurology, located in Ozark, MO.

In this presentation, Dr. Sharlin will present the currently available data on what is known about discontinuing disease-modifying therapy for multiple sclerosis, the likelihood of disease recurrence once medication is stopped, and strategies to potentially reduce the likelihood of recurrence using the principles of The Wahls Protocol and functional medicine. Upon completion of the talk participants will gain a broad understanding of why it is that The Wahls Protocol and functional medicine address the root causes of multiple sclerosis and arm them with the information they need to apply these principles in their own lives.

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Professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology

David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 

Founding President and CEO, Professor Emeritus, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA

Bio:

Dale Bredesen graduated from Caltech and received his medical degree from Duke.  He served as Resident and Chief Resident in Neurology at UCSF, then was postdoctoral fellow in Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner’s laboratory.  He was a faculty member at UCLA from 1989-1994, then at the Burnham Institute to direct the Program on Aging.  In 1998 he became the Founding President and CEO of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, and Adjunct Professor at UCSF; then in 2013 he returned to UCLA as the Director of the Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research.

The Bredesen Laboratory studies basic mechanisms underlying the neurodegenerative process, and the translation of this knowledge into effective therapeutics for neurodegenerative conditions, publishing over 220 research papers. He established the ADDN (Alzheimer’s Drug Development Network) with Dr. Varghese John in 2008, leading to the identification of new classes of therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease. 

He identified subtypes of Alzheimer’s disease, followed by the first description of reversal of symptoms in patients with MCI and Alzheimer’s disease, published in 2014, 2016, and 2018.  His book, The End of Alzheimer’s, was on the New York Times Bestsellers List for 5 months and has been published in 32 different languages.

Neurodegenerative disease has been the area of greatest biomedical therapeutic failure, likely at least in part because the therapeutics developed do not target the underlying drivers of the disease process. Thus trials of novel therapeutics pre-determine a treatment rather than evaluating each person and addressing the contributors to decline. Following anecdotal, published success with a precision medicine approach that utilizes an increased data set size to identify and treat Alzheimer’s disease, we are now performing the first clinical trial to use this same approach.

Sheryl Poremba, PT, CCM

Licensed Physical Therapist, Certified Case Manager, Certified Functional Nutrition and Lifestyle Practitioner, Certified Wahls Protocol Health Professional, Amen Clinics Certified Brain Health Coach, Diabetes Prevention Program Lifestyle Coach

Sheryl has been a licensed physical therapist since 1985; when she graduated from Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, Illinois. Her extensive clinical experience includes acute care, home health, and orthopedics in hospital, corporate, and private practice settings.  In addition to a variety of settings, she has also worked in various positions as a staff therapist, clinical specialist, clinic manager, clinical education coordinator, and case manager.

Currently, Sheryl is the owner of Rehab Connections.  As Director of Clinical Services, her responsibilities include developing, coordinating and presenting courses, providing patient care, and managing the outpatient physical therapy clinic and Education and Training Center in Homer Glen. She is primary trainer and handler for Rehab Connections’ Therapy Dogs Trek, Bolt, and Ace.

To expand her holistic approach for physical therapy patients and wellness clientele, Sheryl has additional certifications and memberships through the Functional Nutrition Alliance, Institute for Functional Medicine, Amen Clinics, and The Wahls Protocol.

Sheryl has completed the requirements for Certified Pilates Instructor through Professional Health & Fitness Institute and Certified Fitness Instructor through the American College of Sports Medicine. She is also a Certified Case Manager (CCM) through the Commission for Case Manager Certification and received certificates from Isernhagen Work Systems in Functional Capacity Evaluations and Functional Job Analysis.  Sheryl has been a member of the Speaker’s Bureau for the Arthritis Foundation also.

In addition to her interests in the health professions, Sheryl has also volunteered and lectured extensively as a Master Gardener with the University of Illinois Extension. Volunteerism has also included acting as a liaison for AFS foreign exchange students.  

Sheryl is a firm believer in the importance of education and dedicates herself to providing continuing education to her peers on a national basis. Her current teaching and course development responsibilities are solely for Rehab Connections Continuing Education.  Sheryl has assisted in the Institute of Physical Art (IPA) course Back Education & Training and was a Level 1 instructor for Functional Orthopedics I. In addition, Sheryl has been a Teaching Assistant for Gross Anatomy at Northwestern University Medical School’s Physical Therapy Program for five years and taught Medical Terminology for 10 years at South Suburban College. Additional academic institutions at which Sheryl has taught include Robert Morris College, Morton College, Oakton College, and Midwestern University, University of Illinois-Chicago, and Fox College PTA Program.

Physical therapy has always played a key role in restoring and maintaining function and physical therapists are experts in the movement system. Your physical therapist (PT) may perform your movement checkup once or multiple times a year, and if appropriate, provide recommendations to help you maintain or improve your function. In this presentation, Sheryl will present how your PT may evaluate your strength, range of motion, balance, flexibility, posture, mobility, gait, and overall function on an on-going basis using standardized tests and personalized measurements.

Your physical therapist can be instrumental throughout your journey so in this presentation, Sheryl will share key functional tests and measurements including several that you can perform during her presentation and later as self-tests to monitor your own function. Plus you will receive her “Your Semi-Annual Movement Checkup” form of potential examination items plus a resource and reference list of selected standardized tests.

We now understand that sleep is a vital priority in our self-care and there are many frequently asked questions. What does sleep have to do with our ability to move, heal, or think? How many hours of sleep do we need? Is interrupted sleep a problem? Do we need to feel refreshed when we wake up? Is it okay to need a nap during the day?

This thought provoking, questionnaire-oriented presentation will help you identify physical issues potentially associated with sleep deprivation and factors that limit your ability to fall asleep and stay asleep at night, including those that physical therapy can address with positioning, muscle relaxation, exercise, breathing, and other PT interventions. In addition, you will be able to start an action plan with “Top 10 Sleep Tips” of evidence-informed healthy habits to help you sleep better tonight!

Andrea is a Health Supportive Chef & Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. She helps clients learn to love food again after food allergies or a healing crisis causes them to radically change their diets. With over a decade in the culinary business, Andrea first went to culinary school to learn to cook for herself after a food allergy diagnosis. In culinary school, she discovered not just her love of cooking, but a new way to feed herself that completely eliminated the symptoms of the food allergy that had plagued her for years. Through her own health journey, she discovered the immense healing power food can have and dedicated her life to helping others heal in the same way. She utilizes healing diets like the Wahl’s Protocol to create nutrient-dense menu plans that are also delicious and satisfying. Andrea is a certified Wahls Health Practitioner. Andrea’s mission is to help people live their best life, focusing on the role nutrition plays in their overall wellbeing. She is masterful at helping people implement dietary changes that stick. She has a series of online courses focused on allergy-free cooking that is designed for both the home cook and professional chefs.

Come be inspired by all the foods you could be enjoying for your morning meal, even after giving up eggs and pancakes. Andrea will demonstrate how she prepares her favorite breakfast dishes that are all Protocol compliant. You will receive copies of the recipes so you can make them yourself.  Recipes will include Protein Rich Smoothies, and how to prep them ahead of time, Chicken Hashbrown Fritters, her favorite “Wahls Inspired” Hash, a Green Soup, and even Grain Free Waffles.

There are so many ways to bread your chicken or pork without using regular flour, eggs and breadcrumbs. You can still make a Chicken Marsala or Veal Parmesan by swapping in some different ingredients, which Andrea will show you in this demo. See 5 different ingredients you can “bread” meat with and add some variety into your chicken dishes. It is possible to make a gluten free chicken tender the rest of the family will like, which helps with getting the rest of the family on board with joining you at the dinner table.

Adopting the Wahls Protocol® involves huge dietary changes for most people. This might be the first time you have tried to eat foods without gluten or dairy and you aren’t sure how to replace those eggs in your recipes. Come learn some basic strategies for how to adjust to eating this new way.  We will cover topics like how to batch cook, preparing and planning out your menu for the week, pantry clean out, how to get your kitchen set up like a chef and much more.

Learn the ingredients that Andrea uses to make all your favorite recipes both gluten and dairy-free. You will come away with ideas for quick ingredient swaps you can use to make any recipe wahls diet compliant and still taste good!

Preparation methods for your daily leafy greens including how to evaluate greens at the store for quality and freshness; A Leafy Greens Identification (kale, dino kale, purple kale, collards, swiss chard, spinach) what they tastes like and how best to cook each one; And a few recipes and cooking methods to make them less bitter and more tantalizing.

Dr. Darin Ingels is a licensed naturopathic physician, author, international speaker and leading authority on Lyme disease and Multiple sclerosis.
He is a former Lyme patient who overcame his own 3-year battle with Lyme disease, after having failed conventional treatment and became progressively debilitated. Dr. Ingles found that proper diet, lifestyle management and natural therapies worked with his body to heal instead of against it.  He then applied what he learned about his own healing journey to his own Lyme patients and found they recovered faster and with less side effects. Dr. Ingels has now treated more than 7000 Lyme patients using his novel approach, many who have gone one to live healthy, symptom-free lives. He is also an MS patient and has been able to control is symptoms following the Wahls protocol.
Dr. Ingels has been featured on WebMD, MindBodyGreen, BeWell, ThriveGlobal, Motherly and Dr. Ron Hoffman’s Intelligent Medicine podcast and is the author of The Lyme Solution: A 5-Part Plan to Fight the Inflammatory Autoimmune Response and Beat Lyme Disease.

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Ed Paget is a UK-trained osteopath and exercise physiologist. He specializes in treating people with back pain by using a natural whole-body approach that blends the best of modern science with evolutionary wisdom. This unique approach hasn’t gone unnoticed and Ed has been recruited to work with many Canadian National Teams and was invited to the Sochi Olympics as part of Team Canada’s medical contingent. He now splits his time between Canada and Nicaragua working with patients globally, both virtually and in person. Ed has been a Wahls Protocol® Health Practitioner since 2018.

In this lecture Ed Paget will cover the basic concepts of pain science with regards to back pain.  He we debunk the common myths about what can be causing back pain and highlight some of the problems in our current medical treatment of chronic pain. He will the lead delegates through a series of simple self-assessments and exercises that are easy to do and can help people regain confidence in their spines.

Best-selling author, consultant, and master clinician, Dr. Joan Rosenberg is a cutting-edge psychologist who is known as an innovative thinker, acclaimed speaker and trainer. As a two-time TEDx speaker and member of the Association of Transformational Leaders, she has been recognized for her thought leadership and influence in personal development. Dr. Rosenberg has been featured in the documentaries “I Am”, “The Miracle Mindset”, “Pursuing Happiness” and “The Hidden Epidemic”. She’s been seen on CNN’s American Morning, and ABC, CBS, FOX, PBS and OWN networks, as well as appearances and radio interviews in major metropolitan markets. A California-licensed psychologist, Dr. Rosenberg speaks on how to build confidence, emotional strength, and resilience; how to achieve emotional, conversational and relationship mastery; how to integrate neuroscience and psychotherapy; and suicide prevention. An Air Force veteran, she is a professor of graduate psychology at Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, CA. Her latest book, 90 Seconds to a Life you Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings to Cultivate Lasting Confidence, Resilience and Authenticity, was released February 2019.

There are distinct elements that contribute to one’s sense of resilience that include one’s ability to experience and move through unpleasant feelings; emotional strength, assertiveness and engaging in resilient thinking. Not only will participants be able to understand how these concepts weave together, he or she will be able to apply each of these concepts upon completion of this lecture.

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Our children are facing an epidemic of autoimmunity – from Atopic Disease to Juvenile Rheumatoid arthritis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, to PANS/PANDAS. Understanding the root causes and potential triggers of the development of autoimmunity in children can lead the way toward more effective prevention and treatment strategies. During this session, we will explore the role of the gut microbiome, chronic infections, environmental toxins and psychological stress on the progression of autoimmune illness in children. We will then explore a functional and integrative pediatric approach to identifying and treating each child’s unique set of root causes to truly heal them from the inside out.

With 8 in 10 children predicted to have a chronic diagnosis by 2025, now more than ever we need to understand the foundations of cellular resilience in children to build a lifetime of optimal health and wellness. Cellular resilience allows our cells to cope with stress and recover rapidly and completely. Cells differ less in their “vulnerability” than in their “resilience.” During this session, we will explore the 5 Foundations of Cellular Resilience to help our children thrive body, mind & spirit. The 5 Foundations are: 1) Nutritional & Lifestyle Resilience; 2) Gut Health Resilience; 3) Immune Resilience; 4) Mitochondrial Resilience; and 5) Emotional & Vagus Nerve Resilience

Dr. Nicole Apelian is an herbalist, a biologist, an anthropologist, a survival skills instructor, and a mother. Nicole was a challenger on the second and fifth seasons of the History Channel’s TV series “Alone”, where she thrived in the wilderness totally solo with little more than her knife and her wits and stars in the new UK documentary mini-series “Surviving the Stone Age: Adventure in the Wild”. She is the author of two books, The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies: The Healing Power of Plant Medicine and A Reference Guide to Surviving Nature: Outdoor Preparation and Remedies (GEAR-WILDLIFE-WEATHER-FIRST AID).

An unexpected diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 2000 led Nicole to apply her scientific research skills towards her own personal wellness. She focuses on a healthy living strategy, including deep nature connection and gratitude practices. Through changes in her lifestyle & diet, recognizing profound mind-body linkages, and making and using her own herbal remedies, Nicole went from bedridden to being fully alive and from surviving to thriving. 

She has spent years living in nature with the San Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert, one of the last Indigenous peoples who still live as hunter-gatherers. Developing strong relationships within the tribe helped Nicole learn many of the remedies and skills she practices and teaches today and she continues her work with the San through her non-profit, “The Origins Project“. 

At home in the Pacific Northwest, she makes her own herbal medicines from local plants as part of her healthy living strategy, especially as related to autoimmune issues, and has her own herbal medicinal apothecary line. 

Find out more about Nicole at www.nicoleapelian.com.

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Reishi, Lion’s Mane, and Turkey Tail are three medicinal mushrooms gaining attention for autoimmune disorders. Evidence shows these mushrooms are exceptionally effective in regulating the immune response in autoimmune conditions like MS and also help with leaky gut syndrome and gut inflammation.

Research strongly suggests that some medicinal mushrooms need to be extracted in both alcohol and water to access all the active compounds. For example, in Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum), the main components with pharmacological activity are polysaccharides and triterpenoids. Polysaccharides (including beta-glucans) extract in water while triterpenoids, like ganoderic acid, extract in alcohol. 

Recent research will be presented.

Maya Shetreat, MD is a neurologist, herbalist, urban farmer, and author of The Dirt Cure. She has been featured in the New York Times, The Telegraph, NPR, Sky News, The Dr. Oz Show and more. Dr. Maya is the founder of the Terrain Institute, where she teaches Terrain Medicine™, earth-based programs for transformational healing. She works and studies with indigenous communities and healers from around the world, and is a lifelong student of ethnobotany, plant healing, and the sacred.

Human health has depended on the elements of the natural world since the beginning of time. Our bodies evolved with the support of the medicine of plants and nature. In fact, most pharmaceuticals were derived from one or more compounds extracted from plants. And we now know that even common, accessible plants contain thousands of such healing compounds.

Plants and nature are a foundational part of healing, recovery, and maintaining resilience in the face of acute and chronic illness. Though traditional wisdom has told us this for centuries, there is now excellent scientific evidence to support this as well. In a world when so much is uncertain – and even science and medical knowledge is ever-changing – the healing power of herbs, plants, and connecting with the elements of nature are eternal and true.

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(1) You will learn about plants and nature practices that have powerful healing properties. 

(2) You wlll be able to identify common plants with powerful medicinal effects.

(3) You will have easy recipes to make your own tonics for calming, sleep and more.

(4) You will understand why our ecological terrain (the world around us) is so important for the health and wellbeing of our internal terrain (our bodies).

Michael Ruscio is a doctor, clinical researcher and best-selling author whose practical ideas on healing chronic illness have made him an influential voice in functional and alternative medicine.  His research has been published in peer reviewed medical journals and he speaks at integrative medical conferences across the globe.

Dr. Ruscio’s best-selling book, Healthy Gut, Healthy You, has paved the way for a ‘start with the gut’ philosophy which has enabled doctors and patients to obtain improved outcomes with minimal expense and effort.

He is leading the charge to make alternative medicine more affordable, effective and practical, through a pragmatic application of evidence-based therapies.  Dr. Ruscio’s ability to objectively analyze medical literature has made him a trusted voice of reason, a voice he shares on his top-rated podcast and website.

Gut dysbiosis, immune activation, and histamine intolerance can co-exist in an interconnected web. Individuals may experience dermatological, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, and/or respiratory symptoms.

While a diagnosis of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) is sometimes made, patients with these hypersensitive immune responses can significantly improve symptoms with natural interventions.

While some of the science is still preliminary, this talk will provide progressive, yet evidence-based recommendations for using diet, lifestyle, environment, probiotics, antibacterial treatment and over-the-counter medications in the management of gut dysbiosis, immune activation, and histamine intolerance. 

Dr. Ginsberg completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Bowman-Gray School of Medicine in North Carolina before Houston’s sunny climate brought her to Texas. Dr. Ginsberg has years of experience providing comprehensive obstetrics and gynecology treatment. As her career advanced she developed a special interest in functional medicine and the manner in which it bridges the gap of a patients illness while minimizing severe symptoms and optimizing health. This passion now encompasses special focus on the understanding of genetics and methylation, optimal hormone balance and overall healthy aging. Being a black belt in Tae Kwan Do and an accomplished marathon runner and an Ironman triathlete has led her to explore the latest medical advances in wellness for athletes along with anti-aging therapies for both men and women. She is motivated to continue her research in nutritional therapies for many reasons, most significantly for the benefits it has brought to her sons with specific learning needs.

Dr. Ginsberg has used her extensive experience to help men and women with hormone imbalance regain the vitality and fitness they thought was lost forever. She lectures for Functional Medicine University on the topic of PCOS, its natural reversal, and pathways to fertility. She is the author of The PCOS Environmental Roadmap. Rectangularization of aging is her personal passion, and she is faculty at the American Academy of Anti-Aging where she has lectured about bio-identical hormone replacement and telomeres (DNA caps) and how instrumental their preservation is for ongoing health. She is also involved in a ground breaking infusion study looking at Young Fresh Frozen Plasma and the effect it has on helping reverse symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson’s Disease. She is lecturing all over the country on the amazing results of this study and how it can help neurodegenerative diseases.

Autoimmunity and Adrenal issues have been studied for years. As research continues it is more and more apparent that MS and the disease progression is of an autoimmune inflammatory origin. 

There is a clear connection between microbiome disruption, sleep, leaky gut, free radicals and the development of autoimmune disease and MS. Chronic cortisol disruption will lead to issues with neurotransmitter(NT) production. Abnormal NT will prevent restorative sleep and increase the stress response even more.  In the light of chronic cortisol, leaky gut and eventually brain inflammation changes occur.

Dr. Kasia Kines is a CEO and Founder of Global EBV Institute and Holistic Nutrition Naturally. She is an international leader in recovery therapy for Epstein-Barr Virus infections and the Amazon best-selling author of The Epstein-Barr Virus Solution. She is a Doctor of Clinical Nutrition, a Board-Certified Nutrition Specialist, and a Certified Nutritionist licensed by the Washington State, trained at the prestigious Bastyr University. Dr. Kines trains other clinicians in her methodology in her EBV Clinical Training and Certification Program and runs her EBV Recovery Program for people with chronic EBV.

Dr. Kines has been in clinical practice since 2005, providing individualized support to several thousands of clients with complicated health issues, especially gastrointestinal and autoimmune, with EBV being the main focus in the last few years. Her virtual practice serves clients nationally and globally. Dr. Kines lives in Friday Harbor on San Juan island, WA with her husband, a cat and an African gray parrot

Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) is marginalized in medical community even though the devastation it causes in the US population is of epic proportion. This presentation explains how far-reaching EBV is, its prevalence, and consequences. Evidence is consistent and overwhelming and yet, millions of people fall through the cracks of traditional medical approach to the virus, which is grossly outdated. Dr. Kines takes the audience on a fascinating journey through the eyes of the virus and the evidence-based recovery, backed up by her clinical experience.

Cynthia Thurlow is a globally recognized expert in nutrition & intermittent fasting, highly sought after speaker, CEO and founder of Everyday Wellness Project. She’s been a nurse practitioner for 20+ years, is a 2x TEDx speaker: her 2nd talk on intermittent fasting has been viewed over 7.5 million times. She has been featured on ABC, FOX5, KTLA, CW and in Medium and Entrepreneur. Cynthia was recently listed in Yahoo Finance as one of the “21 Founders Changing the Way We do Business.” She’s also the host of Everyday Wellness podcast, which was listed as “20 Podcasts That Will Help You Grow in 2020”  by Entrepreneur magazine, and in Business Insider “21 Podcasts To Expand Your Mind in 2021.”

Twitter: https://twitter.com/_CynthiaThurlow

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Intermittent fasting (IF) is a strategy that may contribute to longer and healthier lives. This is has been demonstrated in observational studies in humans and animal models, though, more research is necessary. By further refining our understanding of the physiology of the fasted state in animal models—and eventually via human clinical trials—we hope to gain a better grasp of IF’s effects on key bio-physical markers, to determine whether IF consistently contributes to anti-aging, and to identify the extent to which IF may significantly enhance metabolic health, autoimmunity and longevity.

Dr. Anna Cabeca is an internationally-acclaimed menopause and sexual health expert, global speaker and pioneering promoter of women’s health.  She is Emory University-trained and triple board-certified in gynecology and obstetrics, integrative medicine and anti-aging and regenerative medicine. She is the author of two books, The Hormone Fix and Keto-Green 16.

Dr. Anna is known as The Girlfriend Doctor helping women combat negative hormone-related symptoms and implement natural and easy-to-follow solutions that will have them feeling happier, healthier and confident.  

Dr. Anna’s compelling story is inspired by her own life experiences; she went through menopause twice – the first time at 39 after suffering a tragedy of losing a toddler, and then again at 50 years old. She was actually able to reverse her own early menopause at 39 (and the probability of doing this is about 1%!), and went on to conceive a beautiful daughter. 

 Dr. Anna infuses her presentations with humor, raw connection and passion, and she impacts lives each and every day. Follow her journey on her blog at DrAnnaCabeca.com and connect with her on Facebook and Instagram.

Dr Anna Cabeca, the Girlfriend Doctor, introduces the solution for women who are suffering with vaginal dryness, loss of libido, and a feeling of disconnect in their relationships due to hormonal and endocrine changes. As we enter this time period of neuro-endocrine vulnerability (before, during, and after menopause) we deal with autoimmune conditions and consequences from the gynecologic standpoint. These must be addressed, and absolutely can be reversed, to create greater intimacy, connection, and quality of life, while reducing vaginal dryness and incontinence, and increasing pleasure.

Dr. Becky Campbell is a board-certified doctor of natural medicine who was initially introduced to functional medicine as a patient. She struggled with many of the issues her patients struggle with today, and she has made it her mission to help patients all around the world with her virtual practice. Dr. Becky Campbell is the founder of Dr. Becky Campbell.com and author of The 30-Day Thyroid Reset Plan and The 4-Phase Histamine Reset Plan She has been featured on multiple online publications like Mindbodygreen, Bustle, Popsugar and more. She has been a guest on the Mind Pump Podcast, Harder to Kill Radio and many others as a thyroid health & Histamine Intolerance expert. Dr. Campbell specializes in Thyroid disease, Autoimmune disease and Histamine Intolerance and hopes to help others regain their life as functional medicine helped her regain hers.

I will speak on histamine intolerance, which is a widely-overlooked issue in medicine today. Histamine is of extreme importance to the immune system, Gastrointestinal system and a powerful chemical messenger between the body and the brain. 

Many people have a misconception of histamine, thinking it is only a bad thing. I would like to educate your audience on the role histamine plays in the body and when histamine becomes a problem. I would also like to teach them how to identify if histamine intolerance is an issue for them, and the symptoms to look out for. I provide tools for reducing histamine in the body, finding the underlying causes of histamine intolerance and teaching people how to increase their body’s ability to breakdown histamine. I discuss the different phases of diet changes for histamine intolerance, including reducing inflammatory foods in addition to high histamine foods. This method is very useful for those with autoimmune disease in general.

As a Certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), a Certified Gluten Practitioner and a Certified Restorative Wellness Practitioner which collectively enable her to specialise in functional laboratory testing to provide further insight and information to her clients.  

She draws on her life journey and shares her personal near-death health story going from an over achieving work-a-holic to having a physiological body breakdown that left her almost bedridden for two years.  She was told by countless medical practitioners that she was going to die. This led her to dive deep into Functional Nutrition and rebuild her body. Now she travels the world as a keynote speaker at a conference or delivering corporate trainings and presentations to help others to do the same.  

Shelley divides her time between seeing clients 1-1 at her own private clinic, running her online programs, speaking, facilitating workshops to Corporates in NZ and overseas as well as helping other wellness practitioners to have booked out clinics like hers so that she can amplify her impact on wellness even further.

Most people don’t know all the stressors that are in their lives. So I begin this lecture by looking at all the stressors in the persons life, we fill up the beaker. Then we have options we either bring down those stressors in our lives, or we have to make the beaker bigger, we make the beaker bigger by implementing self care rituals. As a practitioner I like all of these self care strategies to also have health benefits so we need to be getting double results. Improving your health while also improving your self care rituals. As you do this, your resilience increases.

Dr. Chris LoRang serves as owner and chiropractic physician at Capital Chiropractic & Rehabilitation Center in Des Moines, Iowa. Dr. LoRang received his BA from the University of Iowa in Social and Culture Perspectives on Health, with a minor in Jazz Studies. He then graduated Magna Cum Laude from Palmer College of Chiropractic. 

His holistic approach includes acupuncture, soft tissue rehab, dynamic stretching, take-home exercises, and nutritional coaching to allow each patient an opportunity to become involved with their own outcome. Dr. LoRang is a Wahls Protocol Health Professional.

Dr. LoRang also co-founded Building Your Baby From the Ground Up. This educational platform promotes baby-led movement by empowering parents, caretakers, daycares, and clinicians with clear and evidence-based guides. He has presented at conferences around the country and been published in national publications and journals on this topic of baby-led movement.

In addition to helping people through manual medicine and lifestyle coaching, he enjoys family time, cooking, bicycling, gardening, playing guitar, and noodling on the saxophone.

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Dr. Shelly Sethi is a double board-certified family physician who provides integrative and functional medicine to people who are looking for clarity and root-cause resolution of their chronic health issues and to people who want to optimize their body and brain to live to their full potential. She provides a step-by-step system that is customized for your unique health condition with a focus on nutrition science,  sleep physiology, stress management, exercise physiology, connection to community and mind-body practices.  Her program reverse engineers your health goals by understanding your genetic potential and focuses on recovery from stress exposure. This results in more energy, a clear mind, and an optimized body and spirit which improves your relationships, impact, and lifestyle.

She is the Founder of Dr. Shelly Sethi Personalized Medicine and a national speaker in the field of Integrative Medicine.  Additionally,  she is the best selling author of “Built to Thrive. Overcome Chronic Illness, Fatigue and Hormonal Imbalance and Get Your Energy and Vitality Back Without Medication or Surgery.”  She teaches culinary medicine and mind-body seminars in Austin and has been a practitioner and teacher of meditation for over twenty years.

More than 23 million adults suffer from pain, inflammation, anxiety and depression. Additionally, meditation has been studied as an effective approach for pain relief, and is an intervention for both anxiety and depression.  However, less than 10% of adults in the US practice or have practiced a daily breathwork or meditation practice and as fewer than 5% of doctors actually talk to patients about how to begin a daily practice.  In this talk, we will review how: 

• Mindfulness meditation as well as other forms of mind-body practices can improve pain and the biological mechanisms underlying disease. 
• Meditation has direct effects on immune system parameters.
• Meditation has a positive effect on depressive and anxiety symptoms, with secondary outcomes of improved well-being and happiness
• Practical tools to get started with a meditation and breathwork practice.

Pilar Gerasimo is an award-winning health journalist, pioneering social explorer, and author of a new book, The Healthy Deviant: A Rule-Breaker’s Guide to Being Healthy in an Unhealthy World (North Atlantic Books, 2020).

Best known for her work as founding editor of Experience Life magazine, which today reaches more than three million people with each issue, Pilar has also served as top health editor for The Huffington Post, and as visiting faculty for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. 

Today, Pilar co-hosts a top-rated podcast called The Living Experiment and teaches online courses through her digital learning platform, Healthy Deviant Academy. She guest lectures at universities, leads workshops at top retreat centers, and consults for organizations committing to transforming health and happiness at work and around the globe. 

When she’s not travelling, Pilar hangs out on an organic, communal family farm in Wisconsin with her pit bull pal, Calvin. 

Learn more at www.pilargerasimo.com and www.healthydeviant.com (where you can also take the “Are You  a Healthy Deviant?” quiz).

Connect with Pilar on Facebook at @pilargerasimo or follow her on Instagram at @pgerasimo.

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The glymphatic system is a recently defined brain-wide paravascular pathway for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and interstitial fluid (ISF) exchange that facilitates promotes clearance of extracellular proteins and excess fluid from the interstitium which serves a similar function to the peripheral lymphatic system. Age and trauma related changes in the function of this system, specifically aquaporin-4 channels can lead to significant disruption of extracellular and intracellular solute clearance, leading to accumulation of extra- and intra-cellular protein aggregates such as amyloid b and tau. This system is primarily active during sleep, specifically N3 deep sleep and during wakefulness glymphatic clearance has been documented to be decreased by up to 90%. Research has shown that non-optimal sleep can lead to a decrease in overall glymphatic clearance and optimal sleep as well as wakeful, very low stress states, such as during meditation can improve glymphatic clearance. This knowledge of how sleep impacts this system as well as many common disease processes negatively impact sleep can go a long way for the practicing clinicians seeking to help their patients maintain their cognitive faculties and minimize the impacts of aging on the brain.

Tick-borne co-infections are becoming increasingly appreciated as causes of human disease and morbidity. Once thought to be relatively rare, researchers are now finding that co-infection of ticks, such as Ixodes scapularis, occurs “more frequently than expected, resulting in enhanced human exposure to multiple infections that can cause more severe symptoms and sometimes make diagnosis more difficult” [Dunn 2014]. This knowledge has helped clinicians better define the often complex presentation of patients with the persistent tick-borne disease and opened new pathways for effective treatment and management of these patients.

Along with this greater understanding of the frequency of tick co-infection, other researchers have also looked for more effective treatment approaches for persistent co-infections. In the past 2 years, there have been research breakthroughs in the utilization of both pharmacologic and botanical anti-microbials that have led to significant improvements in patient outcomes, decreased patient suffering and decreased burden of illness to society.

Lara Adler is an Environmental Toxins Expert & Educator and a Certified Holistic Health Coach who teaches health coaches, nutritionists, and other health professionals how to eliminate the #1 thing holding their clients back from the results they are seeking – the unaddressed link between chemicals and chronic health problems. She trains practitioners to become experts in everyday toxic exposures so they can improve client outcomes without spending hundreds of hours researching on their own.

Combining environmental health education and business consulting, she’s helped thousands of health professionals in over 25 countries around the world elevate their skill set, get better results for their clients, and become sought-out leaders in the growing environmental health & detoxification field.

Lara is a member of the National Association of Environmental Medicine, and the American Holistic Health Association.

Environmental chemical exposures are one of the most overlooked factors when it comes to health – including a healthy immune system.

In this presentation, you’ll learn about some of the ways that everyday exposures to chemicals like pesticides, heavy metals, and plasticizers may lead to immune dysfunction, and what you can do to minimize them.

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In this presentation, you’ll learn:

• The landscape of environmental toxin exposures and how we’re all affected
• How heavy metal exposure can lead to immune system issues
• Why it’s important to minimize exposures to common chemicals like phthalates and pesticides to support a healthy immune system
• How to quickly lower body burden of some chemicals and support the body in addressing others
• Simple steps to minimize exposures with the goal of optimizing health

Michael Bernoff is the President and Founder of the Human Communications Institute, a leader in the personal and professional development industry. He works directly with individuals as well as corporate executives who desire to transform their corporate culture in an ever changing marketplace. His passion for his work is limitless and his dedication to positively impacting the world by empowering every individual is uncompromising.

“Michael is both a teacher and lifelong student of self-development and personal transformation.”

During his own journey of self-discovery, Michael studied and modeled effective leaders recognized worldwide. He focused their philosophies, strategies, and techniques that have consistently produced rapid and lasting change. By combining a variety of these proven disciplines and his own strategies, Michael has created his own programs that have enabled both him and his clients to overcome limiting beliefs and achieve a life beyond limits.

How to Influence to easily take on new habits and Actions

Understanding and overcoming the dominant force that slows down positive Change

3 Psychological Triggers that you can use to snap out of habits and create new actions

Learn to Influence yourself to live a life that allows you to to be an Influence to others

Lori Enloe plays in life as a physical therapist, National Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach,  certified Tai Chi instructor and Certified Exercise Expert in Aging Adults. She works in an outpatient hospital setting partnering with clients with chronic health conditions as they consider “What Matters  Most” in their lives. They collaborate to create plans and goals for lifestyle changes to improve their  health and wellbeing. Lori weaves physical therapy and Tai Chi principles, including mindful awareness  and active relaxation, throughout her work. 

Lori has studied Tai Chi and Qigong for over 25 years and is an Advanced Certified Tai Chi Instructor with  Tai Chi Health and she teaches adapted Tai Chi to individuals of all abilities. Lori teaches private and  group community tai chi classes and offers seminars at educational institutions, including the University  of Iowa, about the benefits of tai chi and meditative movement. She offers Tai Chi Fundamentals®  teacher training locally, regionally, and nationally. Through coaching and her tai chi practice, she  cultivates physical, mental and spiritual resiliency. She lives with her spouse, Jim, in Iowa City and is a  parent of 2 college students. You may learn more about her work at Breath and Balance Tai Chi at  https://breathandbalancetaichi.wordpress.com/

Tai Chi is a powerful mind body movement practice combining slow flowing movements with breathing, visualization and focused awareness. Based in Asian martial arts, Chinese medicine and philosophy, it has been used for hundreds of years to promote health.  Research suggests practicing tai chi reduces pain and enhances relaxation, mental well being, balance, reasoning, flexibility, strength and vitality and more. It can be adapted for all people of all abilities.

Ravi Batista has been dancing since she was a toddler. She began studying belly dance when she was in law school more than twenty years ago. She believes that movement and art help us to express ourselves. She is delighted to share her love of dance with you. She is an artist, teacher, lawyer, and most importantly, a mother. She is also a Wahls Warrior– thank you Dr. Wahls for your wonderful mentorship and insights.

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