Beginning January 2025
The Autoimmune Academy
Professional mentoring Program
Autoimmune Disease now affects 1/10 people in the UK
-Lancet. 2023
Do You…
See more and more complex and autoimmune cases in your practice these days?
Struggle to know where to start with a very complicated or autoimmune case when there are so many things happening all at once?
Feel like you don’t have someone to ask questions or bounce ideas off when things are complicated or not going to plan?
Want to specialise, or already specialise in autoimmunity?
New to clinical practice or functional medicine but already seeing autoimmune patients or clients?
Feel like you don’t have time to do all the research needed for all the different aspects of an autoimmune case?
Feel like you don’t know enough, or don’t have enough tools in your tool kit for autoimmune and complex cases?
Have an autoimmune disease yourself, or have a loved one with an autoimmune disease?
Would you Love…
To feel confident about understanding all the overlapping issues in an autoimmune case?
To know how to start, and how to keep moving a case forwards when things aren’t working or results plateau or even regress?
To have a sounding board of experienced practitioners to workshop cases with, and to learn from their clinical experiences as well?
To have an expert, who has been immersed in the world of autoimmune disease and immunology for more than a decade, deep dive in to this subject and share what they have learned and know with you.
To have a comprehensive toolkit of tests, lifestyle tools and nutraceuticals.
Science
Clinical Practice
Lab Testing
Toolkit
Nutritional Therapy & Functional Medicine
Robyn Puglia
I am Robyn Puglia – Nutritional Therapist and IFM certified Functional Medicine Practitioner specialising in Autoimmunity for 15 years in my clinical practice (and in my own life for 20 years).
I have been a prominent educator and thought leader in the UK on the subject of autoimmune disease for many years, teaching the autoimmune modules for many of the UK Nutrition colleges for many years as well as speaking and teaching about all aspects of autoimmune disease via a broad range of platforms in the UK and globally.
I am the UK head of education for Cyrex Labs – a specialist functional immunology lab that focuses on environmentally induced autoimmunity since 2013.
Since 2014 I have been mentoring nutrition professionals and MDs on all aspects of clinical practice.
I have been wanting to develop a comprehensive practitioner education and mentoring program that specialised in autoimmune disease for a long time, and I’m excited that the time to bring it to fruition has arrived!
Beginning January 2025
The Autoimmune Academy
Professional mentoring Program
Join me for an Autoimmunity Clinical Practice deep dive
The Autoimmune Academy offers a truly comprehensive all round support to your on-going clinical practice; for your confidence as a practitioner and the success of your interventions for your clients and patients.
2 Live Sessions Per Month
2 x 2 hour live, online education sessions per month for a year – excluding August and December. This will cover the science you need to know, practical clinical practice and case study learning, functional and conventional testing and diet, nutrition and lifestyle interventions.
Video Library
All of the live sessions will be recorded to watch and rewatch for your own learning, so you don’t have to worry about missing anything if you cannot attend part or a whole session for any reason. You will also have downloadable copies of slides and all other resources.
Private Community via Circle
Participants will be invited to join a closed group where we can come together to share information, discuss clinical issues as they arise, and communicate between live sessions.
Guest Experts
Alongside Robyn, you will also be learning from the clinical experience and expertise of a variety of guest speakers to create a wide and deep learning experience.
I am very excited to gathering a community of autoimmune practitioners around me and around each other, during a time when autoimmune diseases continue to rapidly rise in number and complexity, to guide and promote our ability to support successful programs for this community.
Robyn’s insight & depth of knowledge in autoimmunity is beyond any other clinician or teacher I know of. She delves deep into the complexities of this topic, but gives manageable clinical pearls and remember-able analogies, that makes this one of the best courses of its kind.
If this is an area you wish to work in, then this is a supportive group you can’t afford not to be in.
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Topics
Immunology
How to break down a case when it’s complex and how to get started
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.
Food: How to Use Food as a Tool in Autoimmunity
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.
The Mucosal Surfaces: the gut, skin, mouth, sinuses, lungs and genitourinary trct.
Stress, Trauma and the Nervous System
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 .
Mould and Mycotoxins
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.
Covid, Long Covid and Autoimmunity
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 – Viruses, Yeast and Bacteria
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
Immunosuppressant Medications and DNIs
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 .
Adjuvent Induced Autoimmunity - vaccines and breast implants
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.
