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2026 DIFM Virtual Symposium - Metabolic Health as a Driver of Disease: A Spotlight on Autoimmunity, Cancer, and Immune Resilience

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2026 DIFM Virtual Symposium - Metabolic Health as a Driver of Disease: A Spotlight on Autoimmunity, Cancer, and Immune Resilience

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Date: March 14
Time: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. (Central time)

A powerful perspective in medicine is gaining evidentiary momentum: the root causes of immune dysregulation—including cancer and autoimmunity—stem from metabolic dysfunction. At its core, metabolic health encompasses mitochondrial and cellular integrity, lipid and glucose metabolism, energy production, and fuel utilization, all of which directly influence immune resilience. In oncology, the field is shifting from the Somatic Mutation Theory, which focuses on genetic damage, to the Metabolic Theory of Cancer, which emphasizes mitochondrial dysfunction as a driver of disrupted signaling and energy metabolism. Adding further complexity, the gut microbiota plays a pivotal role, as its metabolites can either safeguard or impair health-protecting or damaging DNA, regulating inflammation, influencing tumor proliferation, and modulating autoimmunity. Collectively, this places nutrition, diet, and lifestyle front and center in both disease prevention and the optimization of health and immune resilience.

Product Publish Details

Release Date: March 14, 2026

SKU: LODIFMVS0326

CPE Level: 2

CPEU: (Valid Until March 14, 2029)

Learning Objectives

  • Session 1 - Mitochondrial Dysfunction as the Origin of Cancer
    • Recognize that cancer is primarily a mitochondrial metabolic disease, and not a genetic disease.
    • Recognize that cancer is a disease of defective respiration with compensatory fermentation regardless of the cellular or genetic heterogeneity involved.
    • Recognize that ketogenic metabolic therapy (KMT) is a cost effective, non-toxic therapeutic strategy that targets and kills tumor cells while protecting and enhancing the energy efficiency in normal cells.
  • Session 2 - Immunology of Cancer: Tumor Microenvironment
    • Describe the roles of the innate and adaptive immune systems in tumor recognition and suppression.
    • Identify key immune and metabolic alterations that contribute to tumor progression.
    • Apply evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle strategies to prevent or reverse immune and metabolic dysregulation associated with cancer.
  • Session 3 - Gut, Mitochondria & Immunity: A Functional Nutrition Roadmap For Managing Autoimmunity and Immune Resilience
    • Describe the key mechanisms by which diet quality, gut microbiota, and environmental exposures influence immune system regulation and resilience.
    • Identify evidence-based nutritional and lifestyle interventions that reduce chronic inflammation and enhance adaptive immune function.
    • Apply functional nutrition and environmental strategies in clinical practice to support clients in building long-term immune resilience.
  • Session 4 - Integrative Energy in Metabolic Health: From Biochemical Energy Balance to Biofield Therapies
    • Summarize current methods for assessing human caloric needs and metabolic energy balance, including their clinical advantages and limitations.
    • Describe major categories of biofield energy therapies (e.g., healing touch, movement-based practices, somatic psychology), their proposed mechanisms of action, and current evidence for metabolic health outcomes relevant to dietitians.
    • Apply one integrative energy-based intervention strategy to a client with metabolic dysfunction.

Performance Indicators

  • Session 1 - Mitochondrial Dysfunction as the Origin of Cancer
    • 9.2.2, 9.1.5, 9.1.2
  • Session 2 - Immunology of Cancer: Tumor Microenvironment
    • 9.1.2, 9.1.5, 9.2.2
  • Session 3 - Gut, Mitochondria & Immunity: A Functional Nutrition Roadmap For Managing Autoimmunity and Immune Resilience
    • 9.2.2, 9.2.4, 9.1.2
  • Session 4 - Integrative Energy in Metabolic Health: From Biochemical Energy Balance to Biofield Therapies
    • 9.1.2, 9.2.3, 9.4.1

Headshot. Professor Thomas Seyfried, Ph.D.

Professor Thomas N. Seyfried, Ph.D.

Speaker Session 1 - Mitochondrial Dysfunction as the Origin of Cancer

Dr. Thomas N. Seyfried, currently a Professor of Biology at Boston College, has built a remarkable career focused on understanding cancer from a metabolic perspective. He began his academic journey at the University of New England, where he completed his undergraduate studies, and then earned a master's degree in Genetics from Illinois State University. He received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Biochemistry from the University of Illinois. Following this, he conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Neurology at Yale University School of Medicine, where he later joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor in Neurology. The diverse academic foundation laid the groundwork for his pioneering research on the metabolic roots of cancer. Dr. Thomas Seyfried research focuses on understanding cancer's origins, progression, and management.

Headshot. Stacy Seslowsky, MS, RD, LDN

Stacy Seslowsky, MS, RD, LDN

Speaker Session 2 - Immunology of Cancer: Tumor Microenvironment

Stacy Seslowsky is a Functional Medicine Registered Dietitian and the founder of Heal From Food, a practice dedicated to helping patients resolve chronic inflammation and restore immune balance through nutrition and lifestyle intervention. She is the creator of Immunology for Dietitians & Nutritionists (IDN), an advanced eight-week professional education course that teaches practitioners to interpret immune system dysfunction and apply evidence-based strategies to improve patient outcomes. As the leader of the IDN Community Forum, Stacy fosters collaboration among expert-level clinicians through live lectures, research reviews, and case discussions on immune modulation, gut health, and hormone balance. She is the Co-Founder of Tegrity Health, where she partners with functional medicine physicians to bring precision nutrition care to a wider audience. She also co-teaches the Precision Health Architect Masterclass Series with a genomics expert integrating nutrigenomics and systems biology into clinical nutrition education.

Headshot. Cindi Lockhart, RDN, LD, IFNCP

Cindi Lockhart, RDN, LD, IFNCP

Speaker Session 3 - Gut, Mitochondria & Immunity: A Functional Nutrition Roadmap For Managing Autoimmunity and Immune Resilience

Cindi Lockhart is a respected board-certified integrative and functional nutrition practitioner with over 33 years of experience training nutrition, fitness, and medical practitioners including the Army and CEU-based courses and certifications through PESI, Inc. Along with practitioner training, Cindi has been cited regularly in the Experience Life Magazine, as well as in USA Today, and has contributed to an 'integrative and functional nutrition' advanced practice training through the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics on gut health, and regularly engages in public speaking events. She also maintains a personal practice as she believes the only way she can effectively educate and inspire other practitioners is through her own practical experience with clients. Her focus lies on optimizing one's health and day-to-day function by getting to the root cause/s of dysfunction through comprehensive assessments and targeted nutrition and lifestyle protocols. In addition to one-to-one coaching, Cindi continues to develop progressive health-improvement programs such as group fasting and menopause transformation programs. Cindi has extensive expertise in hormone imbalances, gut health, thyroid dysfunction, cancer prevention, detoxification and weight loss resistance. In her spare time, she enjoys reading (most practice-related), working out, hiking, preparing nutritious meals, and being out in nature with her family and dogs.

Headshot. Annie B. Kay MS, RDN, LDN, E-RYT500 C-IAYT

Annie B. Kay, MS, RDN, LDN, E-RYT500 C-IAYT

Speaker Session 4 - Integrative Energy in Metabolic Health: From Biochemical Energy Balance to Biofield Therapies

Annie B. Kay is a holistic Registered Dietitian Nutritionist and certified yoga therapist, licensed in Massachusetts. Trained in nutritional biochemistry and nutrition communication, she integrates evidence-based nutrition with yoga and wisdom traditions to support whole-person healing.

A former Lead Nutritionist at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, Annie is the author of Every Bite Is Divine and co-author of Yoga & Diabetes (with the American Diabetes Association). She has written for scientific journals and publications including Yoga Journal and EatingWell, appeared on CNN and PBS, and speaks nationally and internationally on women's health, mindful lifestyles, and healthy aging.

Annie lives in the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, where she continues to write, teach, and explore the intersection of science, spirituality, and everyday life.

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