The Sleep-Gut-Brain Connection- A New Clinical Target
Sponsored By: Mirobiome
It is well recognized that individuals who suffer from sleep disturbances have altered composition of their intestinal microbiome. The question has been whether this relationship is coincidental or whether there is a physiological mechanism that connects these observations together in a systematic way that allows for a treatment of the primary cause of both conditions.
Recent research has shown that there is a mechanistic connection between sleep and the gut-immune-brain network. It is now recognized that poor sleep induces changes in the composition of the intestinal microbiome which in turn further alters sleep quality and duration. In turn alterations in the intestinal microbiome and its connection to dysbiosis can trigger sleep disturbances. The discovery of this “push-pull” relationship between sleep and gut-immune-brain function opens the door for new therapeutic approaches to the treatment of sleep disorders.
This conference will focus on the development of understanding of the connection between the neurobiology of sleep and the functional status of the gut-immune-brain network. This conference will provide information related to the assessment of alterations in sleep quality and functional status of the gut-immune-brain network. Personalized clinical approaches to remediation of alterations in the sleep-gut-immune function will be provided from the understanding of the principle factors that drive alterations in this network.
Hourly Schedule
August 29, 2023
- 5:00pm - 5:30pm
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Speakers:
Jeff Bland, PhD
- 5:30pm - 6:00pm
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Speakers:
Professor John Groeger
- 6:00pm - 6:30pm
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Speakers:
Peter Bongiorno, ND
- 6:30pm - 7:00pm
- Panel Recording
Speakers
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Jeff Bland, PhDFunctional Medicine Founder and Pioneer
Dr. Jeffrey Bland is a personable and highly respected thought leader who has spent more than four decades focused on the improvement of human health.
He is known worldwide as the founder of the Functional Medicine movement, which represents his vision for a care model that is grounded in systems biology and informed by research that he has a unique ability to synthesize. His pioneering work has created the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute (PLMI), as well as the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), the global leader in Functional Medicine education. Since 1991, hundreds of thousands of healthcare practitioners have participated in PLMI and IFM programs, and this collective knowledge has positively impacted the lives of patients all over the world.
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Professor John GroegerDirector SleepWellScience
John Groeger is Professor of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University (NTU, UK), a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and Chartered Psychologist, and Director of NTU’s SleepWellScience sleep assessment service. He has been Honorary General Secretary of the British Psychological Society and President of the International Association of Applied Psychology’s Traffic and Transport division; holds/has held four full professorships in psychology and three honorary professorships and has received extensive research funding from national and international governmental, industry and research bodies.
John’s primary interests lie in understanding how the brain and body support performance of everyday tasks, and how that performance is temporarily or permanently compromised by sleep loss, diet, ill-health, and injury. His sleep research spans laboratory and real-world settings, from young children to older adults, sex, sexualities, and methods ranging from diaries to electroencephalography, total sleep deprivation to brief napping, from measuring hormones to gene expression, and the changes in cognition and emotion that result from disrupted sleep and circadian phase. John has published over 200 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and reports, two books (Memory and Remembering, 1998; Understanding Driving, 2000) and is writing a third entitled “Systemic Sleep”.
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Peter Bongiorno, ND
Dr. Peter Bongiorno’s passion is to bring effective holistic healing to the practice of mental health. He has thriving practices in New York City and Long Island established in 2004. Prior to earning his naturopathic doctorate from Bastyr University, he researched as a pre-doctoral fellow at the National Institutes of Mental Health and Yale University’s Department of Pharmacology. Peter authored the first textbook on integrative medicine for depression in 2008 (Healing Depression by CCNM Press). Since then, he has also authored numerous papers, textbook chapters, and books on the topic of integrative medicine and teaches the naturopathic and functional medicine community about how to effectively heal mood usual natural medicines. His newest text for practitioners is Holistic Solutions for Anxiety and Depression, published by Norton. More information can be found at drpeterbongiorno.com .
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