Regulate, don’t suppress: A functional approach to inflammation and immunomodulation
DURATION:
5
Hours
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CPD:
BANT
NNA
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EVENT TYPE:
VOD
Event
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LECTURER:
Robyn
Puglia
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DURATION:
5
Hours
-
CPD:
BANT
NNA
-
EVENT TYPE:
VOD
Event
-
LECTURER:
Robyn
Puglia
-
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
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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?
- Nutritional therapy practitioners
- Nutritionists
- Dieticians
- Naturopaths
- Other health care provider
- Final year nutrition students
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Course information
Cost | £99.00 |
CPD | BANT CPD 5 hours |
Study mode | On-demand |
Materials | PDF of course presentation upon registration |
Recording | You can access the course up to 20 times |
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- This course was recorded in August and September 2026. All recordings are removed approximately one year after they are recorded so that we can ensure our courses contain up to date information.
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Additional learning
The presenter does provide additional training to be able to work with eating disorders and will offset the price of ION’s course against their post graduate eating disorder programme
