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Dr. Tom Obryan

Dr. Tom Obryan

Founder of the Dr.com

When it comes to getting healthy, Dr. Tom O'Bryanâ€™s goal for you is â€˜Making It Easy To Do the Right Thingâ€™. As an internationally recognized, admired and compassionate speaker focusing on food sensitivities, environmental toxins, and the development of autoimmune diseases, Dr. Tom's audiences discover that it is through a clear understanding of how you got to where you are, that you and your Dr. can figure out what it will take to get you well.

Dr. Oâ€™Bryan is considered a â€˜Sherlock Holmesâ€™ for chronic disease and teaches that recognizing and addressing the underlying mechanisms that activate an immune response is the map to the highway towards better health. He holds teaching Faculty positions with the Institute for Functional Medicine and the National University of Health Sciences. He has trained and certified tens of thousands of practitioners around the world in advanced understanding of the impact of wheat sensitivity and the development of individual autoimmune diseases. Dr. O'Bryan's most recent book, You Can Fix Your Brain: Just 1 Hour a Week to the Best Memory, Productivity, and Sleep You've Ever Had, was published through Rodale Books to global accolades and ranked #1 in several brain categories on Amazon.com. This best seller offers a step-by-step approach to better cognitive function, from nutrition to environment to toxicity, ultimately creating better long-term memory and a sharper mind.

Dr. Oâ€™Bryan released Betrayal: The Autoimmune Disease Solution They're Not Telling You, an investigation into why our immune system, designed to protect us, begins attacking our own tissue (autoimmunity). Currently, over 500,000 people worldwide have watched the Docuseries. www.betrayaldocumentary.com His ground-breaking book, winner of the National Book Award, The Autoimmune Fix outlines the step-by-step development of degenerative diseases and gives the tools to identify our disease process years before the symptoms are obvious and how to turn your health around, one step at a time. He is the founder of www.theDr.com and the visionary behind â€˜The Gluten Summit -A Grain of Truthâ€™, bringing together 29 of the worldâ€™s experts on the gluten connection to diseases, disorders, and a wide-range of symptoms and ages. You can find this info at www.theglutensummit.com

Italy

Abstracts

2026

Predicting Brain Disease Before It Strikes: Autoimmunity, the Blood-Brain Barrier, and the New Clinical Roadmap

Patients with fears of declining brain function present daily in clinical practice, complaining of brain fog, memory lapses, or fatigue—yet rarely are they given clear, actionable answers. Emerging insights from basic anatomy, neuro, and autoimmunology demand a paradigm shift: what we once believed to be the immune system ‘attacking itself’ may, in fact, be a protective response against hidden triggers—microbes, bacterial and viral antigens, toxins, and food antigens—that breach the body’s most vital defense: the blood–brain barrier (BBB).

The BBB is not a passive wall; it is an active gateway regulating immune surveillance and neuroprotection, safeguarding CNS homeostasis. Once compromised, it opens the floodgates for autoantibodies, inflammatory cytokines, beta-amyloid, and toxicants, fueling neuroinflammation and
accelerating diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Multiple Sclerosis, Depression, and Anxiety. Crucially, emerging evidence shows that these
mechanisms are not random—they are predictable, measurable, and, most importantly, actionable.

Advances in predictive autoimmunity testing now allow us to detect early autoantibody signals years before clinical symptoms or diagnostic thresholds are reached. This empowers clinicians to move TheDr.com 877-GLUTEN 1 (458-8361) upstream: to recognize risk, identify the precise triggers, and implement targeted interventions before irreversible damage sets in.

This presentation will deliver a practical roadmap for clinicians, including:
• Recognize the genetic and environmental factors driving BBB compromise and autoimmunity.
• Differentiating key dietary and toxic triggers that initiate neuroinflammation.
• Understanding the role of predictive autoantibody testing to identify patients at risk.
• Applying simple, actionable laboratory markers to assess early brain involvement.
• Determining evidence-based treatment strategies to restore immune tolerance and protect neural tissue.

By demystifying the interplay between the immune system, environmental triggers, and the blood–brain barrier, Clinicians will gain
the tools to intervene earlier, personalize care, and shift the trajectory of brain health long before irreversible damage occurs.