Director of Precision Medicine, Marcus Institute of Integrative Health, Thomas Jefferson University Mill Valley, California
Conventional medicine falls short when it comes to both diagnosing and treating toxic stress and trauma. Many people suffer from mysterious symptoms—severe fatigue, brain fog, aches and pains, abdominal pain, digestive problems, hair loss, insomnia, depression, and anxiety—and don’t realize their psycho-immuno-neuro-endocrine system is at the root. In this keynote lecture, Dr. Gottfried will share the unusual patterns that she sees in many of her patients downstream from toxic stress, including disruption of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, disturbed hormonal levels, diminished cerebral metabolism, lower heart rate variability, and autoimmune disease. You will learn evidence-based, novel, and actionable solutions to address chronic stress and trauma.
Learning Objectives:
Recognize the effect of trauma and toxic stress on the psycho-immuno-neuro-endocrine (PINE) network, with emphasis on the vulnerabilities of women’s mental and physical health
Review the most evidence-based and clinically expedient ways to assess toxic stress, trauma, and resilience including genomic, environmental, and biomarker testing
Analyze the pleiotropic roles of nutritional, nutraceutical modulation, and mind-body therapies to increase resilience, reduce inflammation, modulate cortisol, and support immune function
