Regulate, don’t suppress: A functional approach to inflammation and immunomodulation
EVENT DATE:
9 September
2026
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DURATION:
2
days
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CPD:
BANT, ION
NNA
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EVENT TYPE:
Live,
Online
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LECTURER:
Robyn
Puglia
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Continue your professional development with our Regulate, don’t suppress: A functional approach to inflammation and immunomodulation course
Inflammation isn’t just a switch to turn off and suppression is rarely the whole answer. This course builds a clear, clinically grounded understanding of inflammation as a staged process, introduces immunomodulation as a more precise and upstream way of working, and looks at the central role oxidative stress plays in driving and maintaining immune dysfunction.
Practitioners leave with a practical framework for choosing botanical and nutraceutical tools that work with the immune system rather than against it, and the confidence to apply this across their most complex cases.
This course opens with a focused revision of inflammation as a staged immunological process. From innate activation through to adaptive recruitment, amplification and resolution, with attention to the clinical levers available at each stage.
It then introduces the principles of immunomodulation, what it means to work upstream rather than suppress, how to assess the inflammatory landscape before selecting tools and why choosing interventions that act on multiple points of the cascade offers genuine clinical advantage.
The role of oxidative stress as both a driver and a consequence of immune dysregulation is addressed in depth, including how reactive oxygen species, redox imbalance, and post-translational protein modification contribute to the initiation and perpetuation of autoimmunity.
Key questions the course will answer include:
- Why do botanicals and nutraceuticals often outperform single-target drugs in complex immune presentations
- Which immunomodulatory tools multitask across antigen burden, barrier integrity, and T cell regulation
- When is antioxidant supplementation clinically indicated, and when might high-dose provision be counterproductive
- How do you build a nutraceutical programme for someone already on prescription immunosuppressants
The course closes by applying all of this to real world clinical decision making and coherent programme design.
Course details
What will I learn?
- Describe the four-stage inflammatory process and identify the clinical levers available at each stage, from innate activation through to resolution, moving beyond the binary of suppress or leave alone
- Apply a systematic framework for selecting immunomodulatory nutraceuticals and botanicals based on each individual client’s inflammatory landscape, rather than by diagnosis alone
- Explain the relationship between oxidative stress, reactive oxygen species, redox balance, and immune dysregulation, including the role of post-translational protein modification in the initiation of autoimmunity
- Choose and dose key immunomodulatory tools including curcumin, quercetin, Chinese skullcap (Baicalin), garlic, green tea (EGCG), and alpha lipoic acid, with greater clinical precision and awareness of contraindications
- Design antioxidant support strategies that prioritise dietary and endogenous systems, with appropriate targeted supplementation layered over the top, and avoid the clinical pitfalls associated with excessive antioxidant provision
- Recognise when a client’s case has moved beyond the remit of functional nutritional support alone, and navigate those conversations with clarity and clinical confidence
Full Agenda
Who is this course suitable for?
- Qualified nutritional therapy practitioners
- Nutritionists
- Dieticians
- Naturopaths
- Other qualified healthcare practitioners
- Final year nutrition students will also be welcome
With
Robyn Puglia
Nutritional Therapist
Robyn Puglia is a Nutritional Therapist and IFM Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner.
Robyn Puglia
Robyn is a Nutritional Therapist and IFM Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner. Robyn is very involved within the field of Coeliac Disease, Gluten-Reactive Disorders and Autoimmune Disease, stemming from her own experiences with Coeliac disease and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Her passion for biochemistry and deep conviction regarding the healing power of food and lifestyle change, has led her to work with complex cases, involving multiple diagnoses, chronic infections and complex health issues such as ME, chronic Lyme and fibromyalgia. Robyn runs a busy private practice with her team, supporting people all over the UK, Europe and globally and in addition is the co-founder and director of The Applied Functional Medicine Mentoring Program and The Autoimmune Academy practitioner mentoring program. Robyn has been the VP of Education for Europe and the UK for Cyrex Labs for 10 years, and is a key opinion leader on the subject of autoimmune disease in the UK.
Course information
Cost | £130 |
Dates | Wednesday 9th September 2026, at 01:30pm – 4.30pm / Wednesday 23rd September 2026, at 01:30pm – 4.30pm |
CPD | BANT, NNA, ION CPD 5 hours |
Study mode | Live online course, with the ability to ask some questions (within set times) |
Materials | PDF of course presentation upon registration |
Recording | Edited recap post course, available to view up to 20 times |
Course timeline
Book course ticket
One-use registration link sent via email
Course materials released week prior to course date
Live course takes place
Edited course recap video released within two to three days post course
On-demand course version released within three weeks post course
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- If you successfully book on a course, you will be automatically sent a link to the course when you register. Please do not share this with anyone. This is set up to only allow entry to the first user that clicks it. Further links cannot be generated.
- Approximately 1 weeks before the course you will be sent an email so that you can access course materials.
- Where indicated in the programme, a recording of the course will be available after the course to view for 60 days
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