Broken Immunity: Obesity & the Gut Microbiome

Broken Immunity: Obesity & the Gut Microbiome is organized by Metagenics.

Course Description:
Protecting immunity is top-of-mind with patients and clinicians. In this course, you’ll learn how obesity presents as an extreme vulnerability to infections and how that can be addressed in the clinic by focusing on the relationship between the gut microbiome and the immune system.

Objectives:
• Understand the development of the immune system with the gut microbiota
• Understand how medications and lifestyle choices affect gut microbiota and contribute to obesity
• Understand the impact of microbiota changes on immune response
• Understand how to address immune response and obesity by nurturing a relationship to gut microbiota