A must-have resource for clinicians who deal with inflammation. Take a deep dive into the different types of immune responses (Th1, Th2 & Th17) and why not all inflammation can be treated the same way.
Course Information
1. Introduction
- Why functional immunology?
- Understanding the inflammatory cascade
- When bloodwork is “normal”
- The last few years…
- Increased incidence of immune conditions
- The modern approach
- If not you, who else?
- The importance of inflammation
2. Innate Immune System
- Innate immunity overview
- Innate vs acquired immunity
- Th2 drives acquired
- What inhibits the innate response?
- Switching off autoimmunity
- Barrier defence
- How to drive innate immunity
- NK cells
- Pregnancy
- Sunlight & NK cells
- Germ Theory vs Terrain Theory
- Is there a better way?
3. Acquired Immune System
- Immune system review
- Innate vs acquired immunity
- Understanding the immune response
- T helper cells
- Th1 characteristics & solutions
- Th2 characteristics & solutions
- Th17 characteristics & solutions
- Treg protocol
- SCFAs & Resistant starch
- Gut fermentation, mTOR & autophagy
4. Stress & the Immune System
- The medical paradigm
- How & why trauma presents
- Stress, IL-6 & Th17
- IL-6, Th17 & Treg Balance
- Autophagy & mitophagy
- Vagus nerve & IL-6
- Pavlov for patients
- Overload & neuroception
- Mitochondria & Cell Danger Response
- Maladapted stress
- The 4 triggers of CDR
- Fight, flight & the polyvagal theory
- 5 energy depleting personality patterns
- How to reset & calm the nervous system & immune function