Daniel Kraft, MD
Friday, February 16 | 8:30am – 9:45am
Join Daniel Kraft, a prominent physician and innovator, in a dynamic exploration of how technology is revolutionizing health and medicine. This talk explores the convergence of accelerating technologies and cutting-edge advancements and their implications and potential over the next decade. We’ll delve into how low cost ‘multi-omics,’ big data, digital health, to remote patient monitoring and wearables are changing patient care and reimagining clinical practice. Discover the art of the possible in Generative AI, to Virtual Reality and 3D printing in advancing education, diagnostics and treatment. The presentation not only spotlights technological innovations but also discusses their role in empowering patients and enhancing healthcare delivery. It’s a comprehensive look at the exciting intersection of technology and medicine, offering insights into the future of integrated health.
David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM
Thursday, February 15 | 9:30am – 10:30am
This lecture explores the crucial role of lifestyle choices in shaping the trajectory of brain health and functionality with an emphasis on prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, a disease for which there is no meaningful treatment and for which lifestyle factors play a powerful role. Our daily lifestyle choices directly modulate key influencers of metabolic functionality, including uric acid and nitric oxide as we will explore. By embracing the fundamental role of metabolic dysfunction in this now epidemic condition, practitioners can utilize proactive lifestyle centered measures to promote brain health and dramatically reduce Alzheimer’s risk.
Thursday, February 15 | 4:00pm – 5:00pm
We know that what our patient chooses – and avoids – plays a huge role in their healing and future health. But what is better for them? There are so many different tools and resources telling us – and our patients – what they should and shouldn’t eat, how do we make sense of it all? How do we get them to actually make their better choices? Join this seasoned panel for evidence and practice-based approaches to personalizing nutrition plans that get implemented. From labs to assess, foods that heal, caloric timing, and what is driving appetite this panel will tackles today’s hottest nutrition topics including fasting, GLP-1 endogenous and exogenous, herbs, cooking, alcohol and the quality of choices.
Joe Pizzorno, ND
Friday, February 16 | 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are synthetic chemicals with multiple fluorine atoms. They are widely distributed in drinking water, food, food packaging materials and many other regularly used products These “Forever chemicals” have half-lives in humans measured in years and have been shown to contribute significantly to the chronic disease epidemic. Clinical research on body load of PFASs has shown a dose-dependent relationship with many physiological dysfunctions and diseases such as several cancers, ovarian dysfunction, infertility, insulin resistance, diabetes II, thyroid dysfunction, liver damage, kidney damage, asthma, the list is long. This presentation summarizes the latest research on the contribution of PFASs to dysfunction and disease, reviews methods for assessment of body load and focuses especially on mechanisms of detoxification and optimal methods for decreasing body load.
Kenneth Pelletier, PhD, MD
Saturday, February 17 | 8:30am – 9:30am
Biology is no longer destiny. Our DNA doesn’t determine our health and disease prospects, as geneticists once believed. According to the new science of epigenetics, the vast majority of our genes are fluid and dynamic—and their expression is shaped by what we think and what we do. Our genetic profile may signal an inherited vulnerability to a disease, but our choices and behaviors determine whether these genes will be switched on or off. Each of us can influence our genes to create optimal health and longevity. Dr. Pelletier will discuss the latest epigenetic research, including the Ancestry.com inspired ‘Heritability Study’, and share timely media coverage including details of the “Blue Zone” communities around the world and its potential impact on science. He will also reveal the organizations and cutting-edge technology that will forever change the landscape of optimal aging and longevity. We encourage you to attend and to engage with Dr. Pelletier in learning how to incorporate these new findings into your own lives.
Jeffrey Bland, PhD, FACN, CNS
Saturday, February 17 | 3:45pm – 4:45pm
“We are witnessing the explosion in prevalence of what has been termed in the medical literature as “pre-autoimmune disease”. There are many variations of this condition in term of symptom type, severity and duration of the condition. Over the past decade an understanding of the cellular biology of this complex array of conditions has started to emerge leading to new Functional Medicine approaches to their assessment and management focused on immune imbalances and their connection to genetic, lifestyle, environment and dietary factors. This presentation will review the role that the intestinal microbiome plays in these conditions and how this results in the development of a personalized patient management program for the immunological imbalances associated with pre-autoimmune diseases.
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