The Academy of Nutritional Medicine (AONM) connects science, education, and practice to support better health.
We provide training, resources, and testing for those passionate about integrative and preventative medicine. 🌐 Welcome to AONM! 🥦~ www.aonm.org
The Academy of Nutritional Medicine (AONM) - An international interdisciplinary forum dedicated to advancing nutritional medicine. Our principal aims are:
🔄 Work towards the integration of conventional and complementary medicine
🤝 Bring together academic expertise in nutritional medicine
📚 Provide high-quality information on new developments and therapeutic approaches in nutritional medicine to both practitioners and the public
🧪 Provide effective testing services for patients and practitioners
Join us on this journey of advancing knowledge and promoting overall health! 🌿💚
Inside this edition:
✨ A powerful US roundtable highlighting growing recognition of chronic Lyme disease
✨ Insights from leading experts, including Professor Bransfield
✨ New innovations like the FRAT® test
✨ Upcoming must-attend events in London and beyond
🧠Infection-Associated Chronic Neuropsychiatric Impairments
Exploring infectious and immune drivers of chronic cognitive, behavioural, and psychiatric symptoms
Join Dr. Robert Bransfield for a thought-provoking AONM webinar exploring the powerful connection between infections and chronic neuropsychiatric symptoms.
Discover how immune responses to pathogens can trigger brain inflammation, disrupt cognition, and influence mood and behaviour, and why a broader, integrative medical model is essential for understanding and treating these complex conditions.
💡 In this webinar, you’ll learn:
🦠 How infections like Borrelia burgdorferi contribute to neuroinflammation and autoimmunity
🧬 The role of immune dysregulation in chronic psychiatric and neurological symptoms
🧠 A multi-system approach integrating psychiatry, neurology, immunology, and infectious disease
📊 Insights into cumulative pathogen exposure and its impact on mental health
🌍 Emerging perspectives on infections, including SARS-CoV-2, and societal psychiatric burden
A huge thank you to Professor Craig Shimasaki from Moleculera Biosciences for an incredibly insightful webinar on The Gut–Brain–Immune Triad - What Happens When It Breaks Down? 🧠🌿
If you missed it, you can now watch and gain practical, integrative insights into addressing infection, inflammation, and immune dysfunction. ⚡💡
Watch it here:
What Happens When it Breaks Down?What if some of the most challenging neuropsychiatric symptoms arise not only in the brain itself, but also from a breakdown...
12/03/2026
🧬 Could the real issue be copper, not iron?
Many symptoms labelled as iron-deficiency anaemia could actually reflect impaired copper transport — a factor often overlooked in standard testing.
Our Root Cause Profile sheds light on bioavailable copper and its crucial role in:
⚡ Energy production
🩸 Red blood cell formation
🧠 Neurotransmitter function
💡 Thyroid health
🔍 What this panel measures:
• Caeruloplasmin – copper’s transport protein, rarely checked
• Retinol (Vitamin A) – needed to activate copper
• Full iron panel – to see iron in context, not isolation
• Magnesium (RBC), vitamin D, zinc, uric acid and more
💡 Understanding copper in context can help uncover hidden imbalances behind fatigue, anaemia, and other common symptoms.
Full blood count, Serum iron, Transferrin, Ferritin, Copper, Caeruloplasmin, Plasma zinc, Vitamin A (retinol), Red blood cell magnesium, 25-OH vitamin D, Uric a
11/03/2026
A HUGE thank you to everyone who joined last night’s webinar. We were honoured to have Professor Craig Shimasaki, CEO of Moleculera Biosciences, presenting and sharing insights on how disruptions in the gut–brain–immune axis can contribute to complex neuropsychiatric symptoms.
From dysbiosis and infections to autoantibodies and molecular mimicry, the session explored emerging evidence behind symptoms such as OCD, anxiety, tics, cognitive changes, and treatment-resistant mood disorders — and how integrative clinicians can better investigate the underlying drivers.
🎥 Missed it? The recording will be available very soon... watch this space!
In the meantime, learn more about Moleculera Biosciences and the Autoimmune Brain Panel™ here:
Up to 60% of patients globally with neurological, psychiatric, and behavioural disorders do not respond to treatment. Recent evidence suggests that in some of these cases, treatment resistance could be linked to an undiagnosed immune dysfunction, potentially triggered by…
10/03/2026
🌟 Last chance to register for our FREE Webinar… HAPPENING TONIGHT!
The Gut-Brain-Immune Triad – What Happens When it Breaks Down? 🧠🌿
Join Professor Craig Shimasaki for a fascinating exploration of how disruptions in the gut–brain–immune axis can trigger neuropsychiatric symptoms such as OCD, anxiety, tics, cognitive changes, and treatment-resistant mood disorders.
This webinar will cover the latest evidence on dysbiosis, infections, autoantibodies, and molecular mimicry, providing integrative clinicians with a systems-biology framework, case-based insights, and practical strategies to address infection, inflammation, and immune dysfunction.⚡💡
📅 DATE: Tuesday 10th March
⏰ TIME: 7:00PM GMT | 8:00PM CET | 3:00PM EDT
Enhance your diagnostic capabilities and gain a deeper understanding of the gut–brain–immune triad in neuropsychiatric care.
AONM is proud to support the 2026 ILADS European Scientific Conference – coming to London THIS APRIL!
“Lyme and Beyond: Strategies for Complex Multi-System Disorders”
Join clinicians, researchers, and experts for three days of evidence-based education on tick-borne diseases, including Lyme and associated infections.
Why Attend:
🧠 Intensive Thursday session: European Vector-Borne Illness Fundamentals Course
📊 Full-day scientific presentations Friday & Saturday on diagnostics, co-infections, chronic cases, emerging pathogens, and treatment innovations
🤝 Evening networking with international experts
🏢 Exhibitor hall showcasing medical technologies and cutting-edge clinical services
🎓 CME credits available
Who Should Attend: MDs, DOs, NDs, PAs, NPs, RNs, PhDs, researchers, and allied professionals in infectious disease, environmental medicine, functional medicine, and related fields.
🧠 A simple sore throat is usually harmless, but in rare cases, it can trigger post-infectious immune responses that may affect a child’s brain and behaviour.
The article touches upon PANS/PANDAS, conditions in which an immune reaction to common infections like strep may lead to sudden-onset OCD, tics, anxiety, or other behavioural changes. Families affected often face misdiagnosis and challenges accessing care, and researchers are still working to understand the underlying mechanisms.
At AONM, we’re committed to raising awareness of these rare but impactful immune-neurological conditions and supporting earlier recognition and better care for affected children. Check out the full article below.
Growing research suggests the bacteria left behind by the common childhood infection may trick the immune system into attacking both the invader and the body's own cells.
03/03/2026
ONE WEEK TO GO!
🌟 Free Webinar: The Gut-Brain-Immune Triad – What Happens When it Breaks Down? 🧠🌿
Join Professor Craig Shimasaki for a fascinating exploration of how disruptions in the gut–brain–immune axis can trigger neuropsychiatric symptoms such as OCD, anxiety, tics, cognitive changes, and treatment-resistant mood disorders.
This webinar will cover the latest evidence on dysbiosis, infections, autoantibodies, and molecular mimicry, providing integrative clinicians with a systems-biology framework, case-based insights, and practical strategies to address infection, inflammation, and immune dysfunction.⚡💡
📅 DATE: Tuesday 10th March
⏰ TIME: 7:00PM GMT | 8:00PM CET | 3:00PM EDT
Enhance your diagnostic capabilities and gain a deeper understanding of the gut–brain–immune triad in neuropsychiatric care.
🌟 We’re proud to support “Stronger Together” – ME/CFS Alliance 20th Anniversary Event
📅 4 March 2026 | 10:00–16:30
📍 The Pavilion, Wi******er Cathedral
Join patients, families, charities & world-leading researchers for a one-day symposium driving ME/CFS & Long Covid research forward.
Highlights:
🧬 Ground-breaking genetic findings from DeCodeME
🧪 Latest biomedical & immunology insights
🤝 Collaborative workshops shaping the next strategic steps in research
🌍 Hear from top experts including Prof. Sir Stephen Holgate, Dr Rob Wust, Prof. Chris Ponting, Prof. Danny Altmann, Dr. Carmen Scheibenbogen & more!
Thank you to everyone who joined Tuesday night’s webinar, “Lyme Disease, Coinfections and the Brain: Clinical Strategies for Neuropsychiatric and Neurological Recovery.”
The feedback from our community has been incredible! A special shout-out to Dr Aylin Ozdemir, Kunal Garg, and Leona Gilbert for making this event possible.
This webinar explored why Lyme disease is often misdiagnosed in patients with cognitive, behavioural, and neurological symptoms — and how expanded diagnostic approaches can uncover immune dysregulation and neuroinflammation when standard testing falls short.
💚 And a huge thank-you to our community...we couldn’t continue bringing high-level experts like this without your support. Your engagement and feedback make it all possible!
Clinical Strategies for Neuropsychiatric and Neurological RecoveryJoin Dr. Aylin Ozdemir for an expert-led exploration of the neurological and neuropsychiatr...
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The Academy of Nutritional Medicine (AONM) was established in 2005. It has always had an interest in supporting, developing and promoting cutting-edge research in the field of integrative medicine with a particular focus on patients who are suffering from poorly understood conditions that are often misdiagnosed as psychiatric when they have biomedical causes.
For over a decade AONM has held national and international conferences and seminars attracting researchers, scientists, doctors and patients from around the world. AONM conferences are well renowned. They focus on educating both the professionals and patients in an inclusive and interactive way. AONM ensures that their conferences are also patient-centred.
The Academy’s main areas of focus are the underlying drivers of chronic complex conditions, and has been instrumental introducing an understanding of the bacterial and viral causes. A key to this has been to find tests that actually evidence persistent infection in chronic cases where serology has its shortcomings. As a result, AONM has pioneered testing methods from abroad where these technologies have long been established, such as ArminLabs for vector-borne disease, Moleculera Labs for infection-driven autoimmune encephalitis (also called PANS/PANDAS). A natural development was therefore moving into the area of Lyme Disease and co-infections as well as other stealth pathogens and biotoxins.
AONM’s testing activity has therefore become very strong and unique. We also represent Maintrac in Germany which runs tests of circulating cancer cells and can also test for chemo-sensitivity and the effectiveness of natural agents against these cells on a personalised basis.
The Academy has an additional specialism on the mitochondria due to its contacts with research taking place in the UK and the rest of Europe.
We act as a force for the integration of complementary and conventional medicine, and increasing numbers of NHS doctors attend our conferences, use our tests and involve us in their teams on occasion in complex cases.
