Food-Associated Autoimmunities: When Food Breaks Your Immune System

Aristo Vojdani, PhD, MSc, CLS, obtained his MSc and PhD in the fields of microbiology and clincal immunology from Bar-Ilan University in Israel with postdoctoral studies in comparative immunology at UCLA and tumor immunology at Charles Drew/UCLA School of Medicine and Science. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Dept. of Preventive Medicine at Loma Linda University in California, and an Adjunct Professor at the Lincoln College of Professional, Graduate and Continuing Education at the National University of Health Sciences. His ongoing research focuses on the role of environmental triggers in complex diseases. Dr. Vojdani's research has resulted in the development of more than 300 antibody assays for the detection of autoimmune disorders and other diseases. He holds fifteen US patents for laboratory assessments of immune disorders associated with the brain and gut, has published more than 170 articles in magazines and scientific journals, and has just published the book "Neuroimmunity and the Brain-Gut Connection" with Nova Science Publishers. He is the CEO and Technical Director of Immunosciences Lab in Los Angeles, California, and is also the Chief Scientific Advisor for Cyrex Labs in Phoenix, Arizona. Dr. Vojdani sits on the editorial board of five scientific journals. Over the years he has received the Herbert J. Rinkel Award, the Linus Pauling, PhD Award, the F. R. Carrick Research Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute Lifetime Achievement Award.

Elroy Vojdani, MD, DABR, IFMCP, is the founder of Regenera Medical, a boutique Functional Medicine practice in Los Angeles, California. He is a licensed medical doctor, an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Functional Practitioner (IFMCP), and a certified Bredesen ReCODE Practitioner. After witnessing his father's groundbreaking work to help pave a better and more informed pathway to practice medicine, Elroy realized that medicine was his single passion. After graduating from high school, he applied and was accepted to medical school. Upon graduating medical school from the University of Southern California and completing his residency at Keck School of Medicine, Dr. Elroy Vojdani began his career as an Interventional Radiologist, diagnosing and treating complex, late-stage cancers and other extremely debilitating diseases. While this experience gave him unique insights into how radiology testing is done and interpreted, his desire to stop disease before it reached the point of becoming a chronic illness remained at the core of his desire to practice medicine. Over the years, Dr. Elroy Vojdani has applied everything he has learned to his own health. For instance, during medical school he was constantly fighting mental fatigue and fog and suffering from multiple bouts of nasal sinus infection. A simple blood test (at the time only adopted by functional and alternative practices) revealed that he had significant immune reactivity to dairy and gluten. After following a dairy and gluten elimination diet his symptoms entirely disappeared, and he felt as he had a new lease on life! Today, he continues in his father's footsteps - pioneering to find answers to medical conditions that go undiagnosed and untreated. Each day in his practice, Dr. Elroy Vojdani meets patients that are at their wit's end trying to find the cause of their chronic medical condition(s). Based on his medical training, along with his background in radiology, and his deep understanding of how blood tests are created and conducted, he is able to accurately diagnose patients and then create customized and effective treatment plans. Dr. Elroy Vojdani believes that Functional Medicine is, without a doubt, the future of medicine - and he is passionate about sharing his teachings and practices of this life changing medicine with his patients.