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Empowering practitioners through high-quality, evidence-based education and events that inform and inspire lasting good health

An Annual Functional and Lifestyle Medicine conference. The Mission of the FMC is to redefine healthcare, and to support, empower and educate healthcare professional on the principles of functional and lifestyle medicine. Join the FMC and learn from world class experts and network with other like-minded integrative healthcare practitioners.

16/09/2026

Cancer, diabetes, depression and accelerated ageing share a common thread most training treats separately.
Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Chronic Disease: The Influence of Nutrition and Lifestyle examines mitochondria as central regulators of cellular metabolism and signalling, influencing biosynthetic pathways, immune responses, cell proliferation and programmed cell death, with dysfunction implicated in metabolic syndrome and diabetes, cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative and mood disorders, cancer, and accelerated ageing.

The session covers how oxidative stress, environmental toxicants and pharmaceuticals, caloric excess, glucotoxicity and lipotoxicity impair mitochondrial function, with particular focus on mitohormesis, where controlled, transient mitochondrial stress activates adaptive responses that enhance cellular resilience.

By the end, you'll be able to review the cellular biology of mitochondria and their role in energy production and metabolic signalling, discuss how oxidative stress and environmental and dietary factors contribute to mitochondrial dysfunction, chronic disease and ageing, and examine how physical activity, dietary strategies and selected supplements may promote beneficial mitochondrial adaptation through mitohormesis, biogenesis and quality control.

Bob has practised family medicine in Boulder, Colorado, since 1983, and has served as Medical Director of Boulder Wellcare since 2002. He's an original, long-standing member of the core faculty for the Institute for Functional Medicine in Federal Way, and received the Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Award from IFM in 2015 for his years of mentoring and training healthcare providers.

FMC 2026 takes place on the 14th and 15th of November at the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin. Comment FMC or click the link in bio to join us for the full session in Croke Park in November.

15/09/2026

Heavy metals, mould, POPs, relationships - four things most panels never test for.

The Four Main Inhibitors to Healing: Heavy Metals, Mould, POPs and Relationships names the obstacles that quietly prevent complex patients from improving, even when the protocol is right and the patient is doing everything asked of them.

Dr Shania Seeber is a Doctor of Complementary and Alternative Medicine with two decades of clinical expertise in private practice and integrative clinics focused on hormone health and detoxification. She works with bioidentical hormone replacement and personalised compounded treatments, and specialises in testing that addresses the underlying causes of illness rather than managing symptoms alone.

FMC 2026 takes place on the 14th and 15th of November at the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin. Comment FMC or click the link in bio to join us for the full session in Croke Park in November.

14/09/2026

Vascular inflammation, cardiometabolic risk, cognitive decline. Pete Williams treats them as one picture, not three.

Pete Williams is an Exercise and Medical Scientist specialising in Systems Biology applied to chronic disease. In 2013 he joined the first global cohort in the world to achieve Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner status, and has since lectured as a Clinical Innovator for the Institute.

With over 25 years of clinical experience in preventative cardiology, his work integrates cardiometabolic and vascular health, cognitive decline and vascular inflammation, drawing on genetics, the microbiome and the exposome.

His Day 1 breakout session, Precision Longevity: Where Functional Medicine Meets Conventional Cardiology, sets out how his cardiology practice blends functional medicine with conventional cardiology care.

FMC 2026 takes place on the 14th and 15th of November at the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin. Comment FMC or click the link in bio to join us for the full session in Croke Park in November.

14/09/2026

Twelve speakers. One room. A line-up Irish functional medicine has never seen before.

Dr Robert Rountree, Dr Datis Kharrazian, Dr Deanna Minich, Dr Julia Malkowski, Dr Ciara Wright, Dr Shania Seeber, Pete Williams, Dr Joel Evans, Heidi Jackson, Sue Camp, Dr Gary Goldman and Kiran Krishnan, together on the stage across two days at the Hogan Suite, Croke Park.

Between them they bring mitochondrial health, longevity medicine, women's endocrine and gut health, precision cardiology, dementia prevention, evolutionary biology, the mental and spiritual dimensions of healing, and the gut-glucose connection, covering more ground in two days than most practitioners see across a full year of CPD.

Sixteen CPD hours, BANT and NTOI approved, recorded sessions, presentation PDFs and catering included both days.

This calibre of line-up doesn't come around every year, and there's no guarantee it comes around again.
FMC 2026 takes place on the 14th and 15th of November at the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin. Two-day ticket €399.

Comment FMC below or click the link in bio to book your place.

13/09/2026

Meet the speakers bringing FMC 2026 to life.

We are also going somewhere most clinical events do not go. The mental, emotional and spiritual dimensions of health are not a footnote in longevity medicine, they are central to it and this year they are getting the clinical framing they deserve.

This year’s speaker lineup is genuinely exceptional. Joining us in Dublin this November are Dr Robert Rountree, Dr Datis Kharrazian, Dr Deanna Minich, Dr Shania Seeber, Dr Julia Malkowski, Dr Ciara Wright, Pete Williams, Dr Joel Evans, Heidi Jackson, Sue Camp, Dr Gary Goldman and Kiran Krishnan PhD: twelve world class international speakers bringing two days of clinical depth, practical tools and perspectives that will change how you think about patient care.

Join us on 14th and 15th November 2026 in the Hogan Suite at Croke Park, Dublin. Two-day ticket €399, comment FMC below or click the link in bio to secure your place.

13/09/2026

Dr Gary Goldman's Day 1 session sets out an evidence-based approach to reducing dementia risk, built on a multidomain strategy that starts well before cognitive symptoms appear. Alongside hearing loss, he covers vascular and metabolic risk reduction, physical activity, diet, and social and cognitive engagement as genuine risk-reduction tools, not afterthoughts.

He will also look at: the evidence on statins and dementia, where observational data suggests a possible protective effect that hasn't been confirmed in randomised trials, the emerging link between GLP-1 receptor agonists and reduced dementia risk, and the case for herpes zoster vaccination, where the evidence associating it with lower dementia incidence is genuinely strong. And where the evidence for fish oil and omega-3 supplementation actually stands versus where it's assumed to stand.

Dr Goldman earned his MD with Distinction in Research from the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering, where he served as Chief Resident. He's held a faculty appointment at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College since 1990, and joined the Institute for Functional Medicine's group of educators in 2020 after completing his certification in 2018.

FMC 2026 takes place on the 14th and 15th of November at the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin. Comment FMC or click the link in bio to join us for the full session in November.

12/09/2026

Hot flushes are the smallest part of the story.

A Woman's Endocrine Symphony: Where Science Meets Spirit Across the Lifespan traces hormonal transitions from menarche through menopause as a dynamic, whole-body interplay of endocrine signals, environmental inputs and circadian biology, rather than a set of isolated hormone levels to chase.

By the end, you'll be able to describe key hormonal transitions using a systems-based framework, explain how circadian rhythms and environmental exposures shape endocrine signalling, apply hormone dynamics, synthesis, transport, activation, metabolism and excretion, to clinical assessment, and recognise menopause and midlife transitions as recalibrations reaching beyond the reproductive axis.

Dr Deanna Minich, the 2025 recipient of the Linus and Ava Helen Pauling Award in Functional Medicine, is a nutrition scientist and Fellow of the American College of Nutrition specialising in longevity, phytonutrients and women's health, and the author of The Rainbow Diet and Whole Detox.

FMC 2026 takes place on the 14th and 15th of November at the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin.

Comment FMC or click the link in bio to join us for the full session in November.

11/09/2026

Kiran Krishnan ran a six-month trial. A1c, insulin, and gut endotoxin all moved together.�
Kiran Krishnan's data traces the mechanism behind it: a leaking gut wall lets bacterial endotoxin into circulation, which impairs insulin signalling years before glucose markers show any change.

His six-month randomised controlled trial found A1c, fasting insulin, circulating endotoxin and the specific organisms producing it all shifting together, evidence for a chain running from dysbiosis to endotoxemia to receptor dysfunction.

Kiran Krishnan is a Research Microbiologist and Co-Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Microbiome Labs, with close to 20 years running clinical trials in human nutrition and multiple ongoing studies into probiotics and the microbiome.

The Metabolic Microbiome: The Missing Link Between Glucose Control and Metabolic Health.

FMC 2026 takes place on the 14th and 15th of November at the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin. Comment FMC or click the link in bio to join us for the full session in November.

10/09/2026

You've been treating the immune system as broken, it's just outdated

The Selfish Body: How Evolution, Energy and Immunity Conspire Against Longevity argues that chronic disease isn't a malfunction, it's an ancient survival strategy still running in a body that no longer needs it.

Energy conservation, immune vigilance, and inflammatory responses that once kept us alive are the same mechanisms now working against longevity.

Sue Camp is Registered Nutritional Therapist and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, she's currently completing a Master's in Clinical Psychoneuroimmunology.

FMC 2026 takes place on the 14th and 15th of November at the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin. Comment FMC or click the link in bio to join us for the full session in November.

10/09/2026

We're delighted to welcome Kenko Health back as a Gold Sponsor for FMC 2026, and grateful for their continued support.

Kenko Health is an Irish practitioner-led diagnostics platform, co-founded by Fabrizio Marini and Dr Shania Seeber, built to make advanced functional testing more accessible and clinically relevant for practitioners. It brings together leading diagnostic laboratories, practitioner-exclusive clinical nutrition and ongoing education in one place, so practitioners can spend less time navigating logistics and more time with their patients.

Working with clinicians across Ireland, the UK and Europe, Kenko Health is a proud Irish company committed to a practitioner-first approach.

Thank you, Kenko Health, for your continued support of FMC 2026.
FMC 2026 takes place on the 14th and 15th of November at the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin.

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