Systemic Inflammation, Food Intolerance, and Autoimmunity

Did you know that there’s a connection between the immunological response in the gut and various systemic manifestations of disease? This seminar will describe current scientific concepts of digestion, immunity, and autoimmunity to explain this connection. Paul Bergner, the Director of the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism in Portland, teaches this in-depth course which will help you make healthy lifestyle choices. Paul reviews nutrition, herbal materia medica, and formulation strategies to help support the body’s healing of inflammation; a condition we all live with at some point. After taking this course, you’ll be able to assess and coach a patient (or yourself) using interview and observational skills taught by Paul. Foods that evoke an immunological inflammatory response are nearly universal in modern chronic disease. The removal of these food antigens can allow symptoms of diseases to simply fall away—even serious ones! The material for this course has been developed over a period of over twenty years, and delivered in various formats to hundreds of intermediate and advanced students of herbalism, nutrition, and naturopathic medicine as part of pre-clinical training. You will learn about:

• Methods that will successfully help with serious chronic illnesses such as autoimmune conditions, neurological problems, cardiovascular inflammation, kidney failure, mental disorders, and more
• The basic science of how nutrients affect inflammation and tissue integrity
• The “dotted line” between inflammation in the gastrointestinal system and the overall system
• The exact immune components and mechanisms which are responsible for the escalation of gut inflammation to systemic inflammation
• Interview techniques and assessment methods to evaluate a client for food intolerances
• The unreliability of the common lab tests for food intolerance
• How to coach a patient through the elimination of suspected offending foods
• A complete herbal materia medica of anti-inflammatory herbs
• A herbal materia medica and formulation guidance for healing “leaky gut syndrome”