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Restorative Medicine Digest

Practical Solutions for Neuroendocrine Imbalances at the 2025 Restorative Medicine Conference

Dr. Aimee Duffy, MD, is a board-certified physician and founder of Carolina Integrative Medicine, specializing in integrative healthcare for women. A bestselling author of "Normal Doesn’t Have Side Effects", Dr. Duffy combines her extensive knowledge of conventional medicine with holistic treatments to create personalized care plans that include nutrition, lifestyle adjustments, and hormone balancing.

Hormones, Hypothyroid, and Environmental Toxins at the 2025 Restorative Medicine Conference

Dr. Pamela Wartian Smith, M.D., MPH, MS, a renowned expert in hormone health, will present on key topics including endocrine disruptors, women’s hormones, and hypothyroidism. She will explore how environmental chemicals—such as BPA from plastics—disrupt hormone balance, impacting the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis and pituitary-adrenal function.

Dr. Smith is an internationally known speaker and author. She is in private practice and is the
senior partner for The Center For Precision Medicine with offices in Michigan and Florida. Dr.
Smith was one of the featured physicians on the PBS series “The Embrace of Aging” as well as
the on-line medical series “Awakening from Alzheimer’s” and “Regain Your Brain”. Dr. Pamela
Smith is the co-director of the Personalized Medicine Certification at The Morsani College of
Medicine, University of South Florida. She is the author of fourteen best-selling books, including
her newest book, How to Prevent Breast Cancer: Before and After, is due out in January, 2025.

Dr. LuLu Shimek to speak at the 2025 Annual Restorative Medicine Conference

Dr. LuLu Shimek is speaking at the 2025 Annual Restorative Medicine Conference, May 1-3. She's a Functional Medicine Practitioner and Naturopathic Physician celebrated for her expertise in women’s health, biohacking, and epigenetics. With a passion for addressing the root causes of chronic illnesses, she guides her patients toward transformative healing by enhancing the body’s natural ability to thrive.

Dr. David Brownstein, MD, Asks: What is the Optimal TSH?

Dr. Brownstein will be presenting at the 2025 Annual Restorative Medicine Conference on the topic of A Holistic Approach to Autoimmune Thyroid. He’s is a Board-Certified family physician. He is one of the foremost practitioners of holistic medicine and is the Medical Director of the Center for Holistic Medicine in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Here’s a sneak preview of his thyroid insights you don’t want to miss.

Natural Support for Autoimmune Rheumatic Conditions

The prevalence of organ-specific and systemic autoimmune conditions is increasing worldwide. Certain phytoconstituents may be helpful as part of a therapeutic protocol for autoimmune rheumatic conditions, as they have been shown to have immunoregulatory effects in experimental and pre-clinical studies. read more »

The Role of Dysbiosis and Chronic Viral Infection in Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases

A combination of genetic, epigenetic, and environmental factors is thought to contribute to the development of rheumatoid arthritis. read more »

Exploring Peptides for Neurological Health & Longevity

The need for safe and effective therapies to promote cognitive health, and the growing interest in healthy longevity have brought the therapeutic promise of neuropeptides increasingly to the forefront of restorative medicine practice. read more »

Lifestyle Factors and Cardiovascular Health: The Gut-Heart Axis

An emerging direction of research focuses on the gut microbiome as a complex, metabolically active system whose metabolites can impact the development of cardiometabolic diseases by directly influencing the phenotype of the host. read more »

Genetics and Genomics in Cardiovascular Health Risk: It’s Complicated

A growing body of evidence shows that susceptibility to adult-onset CVD begins in early life, even in utero, presumably as a result of epigenetic dysregulation. read more »

High Blood Pressure: A Major Risk Factor for Heart Failure

Over time, increased hemodynamic stress on the heart from high blood pressure leads to the compensatory development of left ventricular hypertrophy. read more »