Dr. Jeffrey Bland
The Nutritional Neuroendocrineimmune Network
It is now recognized that the nervous, endocrine, and immune systems are all interconnected into a network that engages in cross-talk among each of the component parts. This network is influenced by nutritional factors, macro and micronutrients, and phytochemicals.
This presentation will review the extraordinary revolution in the understanding of how nutrition influences the neuroendocrineimmune network.
Dr. Bland is known as the “Father of Functional Medicine”, a medical approach that focuses on the personalized prevention and treatment of chronic diseases.
Over the past 35 years Dr. Bland has traveled more than 6 million miles teaching more than 100,000 health care practitioners in the USA, Canada and more than 40 other countries about Functional Medicine. He has been a University biochemistry professor, a research Director at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, the co-founder of the Institute for Functional Medicine in 1991, and the founder/President of the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute. He has authored more than 100 scientific publications and 11 books for the health professional and health consumer.
He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife Susan, and near his three sons and their families while pursuing his hobbies of boating, surfing, scuba diving and a life-long passion for learning.
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