The Autoimmune Academy

Autoimmune cases can often involved multiple overlapping dysfunctions and mechanisms, and people with complex autoimmune illness can be hypersensitive and reactive. We will discuss how to assess and break apart cases and organise the information, how to decide where to start and how to create a plan for working forwards through a complex case over time.

People with autoimmune disease may have broken oral tolerance, polyreactivity or wildly different dietary needs from person to person. Moving forwards from the AIP days, we’ll be looking at which diet tools we can use and when, and how to assess food reactivity using testing when that’s appropriate.

I don’t think it’s discussed enough that there are two types of stress. Current or perceived stress, and historical stress which re-wires the nervous system. People with an ACE score of 2, have a 400% increased risk of autoimmunity. A hypervigilant nervous system equals a hyper vigilant immune system and so often just building in relaxation techniques is inadequate when it comes to creating real and lasting change in this area. Not knowing how to recognise or appropriately make changes to the nervous system can mean getting stuck in diet and supplement protocols that aren’t effective .

In this module, we’ll be covering how mould, mycotoxin and related environmental exposures can contribute to or cause autoimmunity. You will also be learning what to do and how to do it, to address overt or underlying mould and mycotoxin issues in autoimmune patients and clients.

The Lancet study concluding 1/10 in the UK with AID was done pre-pandemic. We will be exploring and understanding the mechanisms through which covid can induce autoimmunity and long covid and the tools we have for working with downstream autoimmunity and immune dysregulation.

Infections are among the best studied and understood environmental triggers of autoimmune disease -but infections or dysbiosis can occur at many stages of autoimmune development. How can we understand when infection is part of an individual’s autoimmune process, and how do we know if the issue is past, or current? How do we know which infection is causing problems? And how do we develop effective clinical strategies for targeting infection and dysbiosis and restoring healthy immune tolerance to our total microbial load? We’ll be exploring all of this and more in this module

Many people with autoimmunity are prescribed immune suppressant medications and immunomodulators long term. Here we will be learning more about these drugs and drug classes, how to with with people who are taking these meds, which nutrients are depleted by the meds and how to understand drug-nutrient interactions and recommendations .

In this module we will explore autoimmune breast implant illness, and also the science behind vaccines being both protective of autoimmune disease and also a potential trigger, plus how to support explant and vaccine administration should your clients and patients choose these procedures.