Jeffrey Bland, PhD introduces the Functional Medicine Update 2014 series, previewing a three-part mini-course in functional gastroenterology. He highlights upcoming interviews: January with Dr. Alessio Fasano on gluten-related immune reactions and their links to autoimmune and neurological conditions; February with Dr. Gasparini on increased gut permeability ('leaky gut') and its relation to chronic illness; and March with Dr. Patrice Cani on endotoxemia from bacterial debris, systemic inflammation, and links to diabetes and cardiometabolic disease. Bland frames the gut as central to immune function and systemic chronic diseases.
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You know, over the years that I've.
Been so fortunate to be part of Functional Medicine Update, which is now 32.
Years, hard to believe I've had the.
Privilege of being there at the time.
When people are expressing opinions at such a level that you immediately hear a.
Hush in the room. It's like, oh boy, they just shared something.
That is frame shifting, it's paradigm shifting. And such is the start of the.
2014 Functional Medicine Update. My interview and discussion with Alacio Fasano.
At Harvard, as we all know, kind.
Of the one of the most important.
Opinion leaders in the area of gluten.
And nonspecific gluten related immune reactions that.
Translate into things like autoimmune disease and even neurological conditions. The discussion I had with him, which.
Follows on from his really extraordinary presentation.
He gave at the Institute for Functional Medicine annual International Conference in June of 2013.
This conversation that you'll hear in the.
January issue of 2014 with Dr. Fasano is truly remarkable.
And then I'm so amazed that we were able to then take that as.
An extraordinary kernel of information and move.
It forward into February issue of 2014.
With Dr. Gasparini, who happens to have.
Been a classmate in medical school of Dr. Bassano in Italy. Dr. Gasparini is arguably considered one of the top gastroenterologists in all of Italy and world renowned for his work in leaky gut or permeable gut or what we call increased gut permeability and its.
Relationship to chronic illness.
So you're going to hear from a.
Person in February who has over 400.
Publications in the area of functional gastroenterology.
That ties directly together with what you.
Have learned from Dr. Pisano in January. And then if that's not enough, da.
Da in March we have an interview.
Coming up with Dr. Patrice Connie at.
Leuven Catholic University in Belgium, who I think is arguably one of the world's leading expert in endotoxemia.
What comes from a leaky gut and.
From bacterial debris that leak into the systemic circulation and initiate then inflammatory response.
And how that relates to diabetes and cardiometabolic disease. An up and coming investigator with over.
100 publications in his own right, working.
With his colleague Nathalie Delzen at the institute there at Louvain Catholic University.
So what a one, two, three punch. It's a mini course in what I consider The Cutting Edge 2014 issue of.
The Gut as the center of the Immune system, how it interconnects together with bacterial microbiome activity, how it connects with gut mucosal integrity with the activity of.
The gastrointestinal lymphoid tissue and inflammation. How systemic inflammation derives out of the.
Gut relates to this constellation of chronic illnesses, not just regional to the gut.
But systemically, that has to do with dementia and arthritis and diabetes and cardiometabolic dysfunction associated with endothelial injury.
All of these you're going to hear.
In the first three months of 2014 as this mini course in functional gastroenterology on functional medicine update.
