Practitioner Course

Fighting Fungi with Flora: Medicinal Plants Against Mycotoxins and Fungal Infections

This course is for practitioners wanting a clearer framework for managing mycotoxins and fungal related presentations in the clinic.
Format

Online Course
1 lesson

Availability

12 Months OR Subscriber Pass

Duration

1.5 hours total

Presenter

Kerry Bone

About this course

Fungi are everywhere, in our food, our homes and even in and on our own bodies, yet their impact on health is often overlooked.

This course examines fungi from several angles, including as a source of toxic mycotoxin exposure, as damp-building allergens that drive asthma and rhinitis, as local and invasive infections, as members of our own mycobiome whose imbalance can contribute to disease, and as stealth pathogens capable of evading the immune system altogether.
Professor Kerry Bone is co-founder of MediHerb and a practising herbalist and naturopath with many decades of clinical experience. He is a prolific author, having written multiple textbooks on herbal medicine and contributed to more than 40 scientific papers on herbal research, and he lectures widely across Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom.

In this presentation Kerry works through the mechanisms of mycotoxin toxicity, fungal allergy and fungal infection, and shows how the Keap1/Nrf2/ARE detoxification pathways and immune receptors such as Dectin-1 shape our response to fungal exposure. He then sets out a practical, herbal-based approach to protecting, repairing and restoring the body when fungi and their toxins become a problem.

This is a detailed, evidence-based session for practitioners wanting a clearer framework for managing mycotoxin and fungal related presentations in the clinic.

What you receive:
  • A personalised certificate of completion including continuing education hours
  • Clear protocol explanations from some of the world's top practitioners
  • Clinical pearls for improved practice results
  • Access to your audio and video recordings via the App Store
  • A downloadable PDF of the presenter’s slides
  • Links to all referenced research papers and useful clinical handouts
  • Access to the community hub where you can get answers to your questions

From this course you will learn

  • How mycotoxins are produced by moulds and the acute and chronic health effects linked to exposure
  • Why damp buildings present more than a mycotoxin risk, and how this drives asthma and allergic rhinitis
  • The limitations of common online mycotoxin detox protocols
  • How the Keap1/Nrf2/ARE pathway supports detoxification, and which herbs and foods activate it
  • A structured approach to toxin-specific biotransformation, hepatoprotection and glutathione production
  • The immune mechanisms behind fungal allergy and steroid-resistant asthma
  • Why fungi can act as stealth pathogens, and how Dectin-1 receptors underpin antifungal defence
  • The role of our mycobiome in health and disease, and how dysbiosis is linked to a wide range of conditions
  • A practical herbal protocol for fungal infections, biofilms and mycobiome dysbiosis, illustrated with a clinical case history

What's in this course

Your Presenter

KERRY BONE

Prof. Kerry Bone BSc (Hons) is the co-founder and innovation driver at MediHerb, where he serves as Director of Research and Development. In 2016 MediHerb was awarded the American Botanical Council’s (ABC’s) Varro E. Tyler Award for excellence in Phytomedicinal Research.
As part of his educational role, Kerry is Principal of the Australian College of Phytotherapy and also Adjunct Professor at New York Chiropractic College, providing input into their postgraduate applied nutrition program. He also founded the successful Masters of Health Science (Herbal Medicine) course at the University of New England in 2004, and served there as Associate Professor from 2004 to 2012.

Kerry is co-author of more than 30 scientific papers on herbal research, including original research and systematic reviews. He currently serves as the only Australian member of the editorial board of the journal Phytomedicine, the top herbal research journal in the world, and is also on the advisory board of the ABC.

He has also written or co-written six popular textbooks on herbal medicine, including his latest with Simon Mills, the long-awaited second edition of Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy, which was awarded the 2013 James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award by the ABC. Other key texts include The Essential Guide to Herbal Safety (also awarded the James A Duke Award in 2006), A Clinical Guide to Blending Liquid Herbs and The Ultimate Herbal Compendium. These texts are widely used at naturopathic and medical colleges throughout the world.
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