Microbiome Keynotes Symposium

Speakers

Anna Cabeca, DO, FACOG

Vaginal Health, Intimacy and Microbiome

    • Understand the importance of Vulvo-Vaginal health, the vaginal microbiome and be able to integrate options in therapeutic interventions.

    • Discuss restorative vaginal treatment options, both hormonal and non-hormonal

    • Gut and the Sexual – health connection

    • Nutrition fundamentals for sexual health Sexual health is about more than sex

    • 3 steps to improving vaginal health

Elisa Song, MD

Grandma Knows Best: The Transgenerational Microbiome Impact on Epigenetic Outcomes in Children 

    • Describe the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHAD) and specific mechanisms by which the gut microbiome influences epigenetic programming in children, including the transgenerational impact of maternal, paternal, and even grandparental microbiomes on epigenetic outcomes in children.

    • Recognize critical developmental windows during which microbiome disruption may have an increased impact on epigenetic outcomes for children.

    • Understand how microbiome disruption - including increased intestinal permeability, gut dysbiosis, and metabolic endotoxemia - contributes to chronic pediatric disease.

    • Learn how to test for microbiome disruption, and the importance of age-specific references appropriate for infants, children, adolescents, and adults.

    • Implement evidence-based, practical and fun protocols to reset the gut microbiome and create microbiome resilience to optimize epigenetic outcomes at any age. 

Dushyant Viswanathan, MD

Enteroimmunology & Endocrinology: Understanding how to reverse chronic disease at the root source

    • Learn 3 immunologic mechanisms by which megasporebiotic is clinically beneficial

    • Learn about how to balance the microbiome

    • Learn about root cause of autoimmune disease

    • Learn about the root cause of allergic disease

Haroldo Magarinos, ND

Silent Disruptors: The Hidden Impact of Environmental Toxins on the Microbiome and Disease

    • Define xenobiotics and understand their common sources, including pesticides, pharmaceuticals, and industrial pollutants.

    • Examine the effects of xenobiotics on gut microbiome diversity, composition, and function.

    • Identify the mechanisms by which xenobiotics contribute to chronic inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, and immune suppression.

    • Discuss detoxification pathways and the role of the gut-liver axis in processing and eliminating xenobiotics.

    • Explore strategies to mitigate xenobiotic damage through diet, lifestyle, and microbiome-supportive interventions.

Mark Houston, MD, MS, MS, ABAARM, FACP, FAHA, FASH, FACN, FAARM

The Microbiome and Coronary Heart Disease(CHD)

    • Review to pathophysiology of CHD

    • Discuss the role of the microbiome in CHD and Heart Attack

    • Determine the best treatment with pre and probiotics

Chris Turnpaugh, DC, DACNB, AMFCP

Evolution of Testing & Recognition of Immune Shifts in Tick Borne Disease

    • · Understanding testing for TBD - direct/indirect

    • Understanding the mechanisms to balance out the immune shifts (including the microbiome!) in TBD patients

Lacey Hall, MS, RDN

Kiran Krishnan