What You’ll Learn at EHS 2021:

• How to evaluate disease through a toxicant exposure lens

• How the damage from aluminum, mercury, and other metals is crucial in establishing proper treatment protocols

• Understanding toxicity and the role of the innate immune system in immune resilience

• How immunity is affected by toxicant exposures and/or infection; evaluating the patient and identifying laboratory parameters and values

• How to build immune resilience in children; our vulnerable population

• How insulin initiates the inflammatory response and how to address inflammation and insulin resistance as underlying drivers in many chronic disease pandemics (cardiometabolic syndrome, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, chronic kidney disease)

• Why EMF/EMR exposure may create increasing vulnerability for COVID-19 and other pandemic/epidemic conditions and how to educate your patients about solutions

• Updates in using genomics to understand environmental illness in today’s medical landscape
  

Why this conference is important, NOW

On March 26, 2020 the Environmental Protection Agency abruptly waived enforcement of a range of legally mandated public health and environmental protections, citing the coronavirus pandemic and its effect on industries would “making it difficult for them to comply” with pollution controls.

This means that pollution levels of airborne metals (mercury, cadmium, arsenic, lead) oil and gas industry pollutants (solvents, methane, and airborne plastics like phthalates) and water contamination with pharmaceuticals, perfluorinates, arsenic, lead, etc. may and can legally occur with no notice.

Former Obama-era EPA chief Gina McCarthy, now president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, called the announcement “an open license to pollute.”

What’s Important for Clinicians

In this unprecedented time of challenges in a rapidly changing world, EHS will focus in on what we believe to be the most crucial information:

• Immunity will continue to be affected by toxicant exposure.

• Supporting immune function, particularly if compromised by prior exposures, will become even more essential to maintaining health and life. Prior exposures include, Lyme disease & co-infections, mold exposures, and air pollutants in urban environments, will continue to place a person at higher risk.

• Metals, especially mercury and aluminum, will continue to be a toxic part of the exposome and need to be addressed.

• Inflammation has been shown to increase susceptibility to Covid-19 and an underlying mechanism for many disease states, including obesity, insulin resistance and cardiometabolic disease.

• Environmental exposures play a huge role in these conditions.

• Reversing inflammatory pathways is challenging and requires additional modalities other than dietary changes alone.

• Immune-damaging effects of electromagnetic fields (EMF) have been evident in the medical literature for over 50 years and largely ignored by the medical community.

• Medical providers need to understand how to evaluate patients for the negative effects of electromagnetic radiation exposure and apply strategies for protection from their damaging effects. An understanding of EMF exposure needs to become a standard part of patient education and within the treatment plan.

• The toxicity of aluminum and mercury and how these intrusive metals get into our nervous system and damage the immune system.

• Research on these metals will be discussed in depth, including a detailed understanding on effective ways to eliminate them from the body.

• Detailed information on T cell competence and its role in immune resilience.

• The etiology of insulin resistance and metabolic dysregulation, and their role in inflammation and susceptibility to infection and disease.

• Including an in-depth discussion on strategies for reversal of the “second pandemic”.