Patients are increasingly seeking help from Integrative and Nutrition-focused practitioners for post-pandemic symptoms and cognitive issues. Recent estimates show that 5–30% of the population experiences post-COVID conditions, with over 200 connected symptoms. In Dr. Kristi's session, she delves into sub-phenotypes of PASC, exploring hypotheses related to viral persistence, mitochondrial dysfunction, immune dysregulation, organ injury, and microbiome challenges.

The Tumor Immune Microenvironment is a complex ecosystem containing adaptive and innate immune system with tumor-promoting and anti-tumoral roles. Navigating and understanding these characteristics within the TME is critical for both diagnosis and an individualized treatment strategy design.

This presentation explores the complex relationships between the immune system, metabolic processes, and the impacts of nutrition and lifestyle. It covers the basics of immune functionality, the critical role of metabolic pathways, and how dietary and lifestyle choices can enhance immune efficiency. Exploring recent research, the talk offers practical strategies for integrating non-pharmacological interventions to improve immune health through personalized dietary and lifestyle modifications.

Oestrogens are a family of hormones and each of the forms produces unique effects on the immune system. Understanding the complexities of the immune system and its interactions with oestrogens is essential for every practitioner to optimize the health of their female patients.

 

Learn about the cutting-edge published science that supports the interrelationship between food and mood, and how to apply these findings in clinical practice. Attendees will gather insights about the role of nutrition in mental health, whether mood defines food selection or if nutrients change food choices, how stress and emotions mediate one's relationship with food, and, finally, a definition of emotional eating and clinical strategies to help patients overcome their challenges in this area.

Learn personalised and precise nutrition and lifestyle interventions based on select gene variants and micro/macronutrient analysis in the preconception and pregnancy time periods, with particular focus on toxic exposure and immune function. Recognise the empowering physiologic and economic impact of such a programme on generational health and resilience with reduction in non-communicable diseases (NCD).

Two groups of small molecules, widely neglected in nutritional practice, produced both endogenously and consumed from exogenous sources, are increasingly recognised as critical modulators of processes governing both our immune response and longevity. Find out how levels of each small molecule group can be modulated in ways that can optimise psychoneuroimmunological function, gene expression and telomerase activity.