Gut-Brain Connection Forum

Consumers can hear the latest insights into the role that gut microbes play in disease prevention and emotional well-being at a special public event as part of the 15th annual Natural Supplements Conference, hosted by the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine.

The event will bring together some of the nation’s leading authorities in this field, including Joseph Pizzorno, naturopathic physician, researcher and editor of the peer-reviewed publication Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal. Other experts on the panel will include physician-researcher Robert Bonakdar, MD, of Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, and Rob Knight, co-founder of the American Gut Project and senior editor of the microbial ecology journal, ISME Journal. Rounding out the panel will be Dale Bredesen, MD, a neurodegenerative disease expert and founding president of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging, and Mimi Guarneri, MD founder and president of The Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine.