L’ennemi invisible démasqué – santé environnementale

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L’ennemi invisible démasqué 

Santé environnementale : quand la médecine fonctionnelle, l’oncologie et l’endocrinologie apportent des solutions

Les expositions aux toxiques environnementaux, complexes et omniprésentes, ont des répercussions majeures sur le fonctionnement du corps humain et sur la pratique quotidienne des professionnels de santé. Nous vous proposons d’en analyser les enjeux actuels grâce à l’intervention d’experts.

Les fondateurs et dirigeants de Biotics Research partageront également leur vision et leur expérience à l’occasion des 50 ans de leur entreprise. Interventions en anglais et néerlandais (traduction simultanée en anglais des interventions en néerlandais).

Lecture: Exposure to toxic substances and the limits of European chemicals policy

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jacob de Boer

Since the mid-1960s, when the world was shaken awake by Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, fundamentally little has changed in the field of persistent substances. We are still regularly startled by new threats, as has been the case in recent years with PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances). In the Netherlands, this has led to a ban on eating eggs from free-range chickens, while worldwide not a single baby is born who is not already exposed to PFAS through the mother.

In Europe, the REACH programme (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) is supposed to ensure the limitation—and preferably the prevention—of exposure of the European population to toxic substances. In practice, however, any company can start producing new substances without those substances being tested for public health risks, as is required for medicines. At present, the trend in Brussels politics is mainly focused on competition with China, and therefore on increasingly less restrictive regulations for companies. The result is that in the coming years we must reckon with more contaminating substances in our environment—and also within ourselves.

Lecture: The Evolving Hormone Landscape: What Every Practitioner Must Know in 2026

Speaker: Dr. Devaki Lindsey Berkson

The hormone landscape is undergoing a profound transformation in 2026—driven by emerging science that informed practitioners can no longer afford to ignore. Today’s most successful clinicians are those who understand how to evaluate, support, treat, and track hormone health, while recognizing the critical intertwining roles of nutrition, the microbiome, and "receptor functionality".

As research continues to expand our understanding of hormone signalling and regulation, a more integrated, systems-based approach is essential.

In this presentation, you will learn:

• How hormones function as the “Wi-Fi signals” of human physiology, coordinating communication across multiple systems and even to “all” cell membranes, not only receptors.
• Why the number of known hormone signaling pathways and receptor mechanisms continues to grow—and why this matters clinically.
• The protective role of hormones on hippocampal volume and its significance in cognitive health and anti-aging.
• Which laboratory markers best assess whether hormone interventions are truly reversing biological aging.
• How excessive inflammation alters receptor behavior, shifting hormones from protective to potentially harmful.
• How to identify uncontrolled inflammation, address it clinically, and preserve healthy hormone signaling in both genders and across the lifespan.
• Why routine hormone testing—from adolescence onward—should become as standard as lipid and glucose screening.
• How “competitive inhibitors” and “environmental toxic exposures” disrupt hormone signaling—and why detoxification strategies must move into mainstream practice.

This session empowers you to become the practitioner who understands how to protect hormone function, preserve receptor integrity, and support human health—grounded in the emerging science that every modern clinician should know.

Lecture: Brain Toxicity, the Blood–Brain Barrier, and Neurodegeneration

Speaker: Ing. Biochemistry Angélique De Beule

Every day, we are exposed to environmental toxic substances, and unfortunately the brain is not spared. In this lecture, Ing. Biochemistry Angélique De Beule maps out the chemical pollutants that impact our brain health. She examines how these substances affect the blood–brain barrier (BBB) and the role they play in contemporary neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. Finally, she highlights the glymphatic system, which plays a crucial role in the brain’s daily cleansing process.

Lecture: Oncology and mitochondrial health in a toxic world

Speaker: Dr. med. Henning Saupe (M.D.)

Dr. Henning Saupe has been working for over 30 years with integrative and complementary medicine specialised in holistic oncology. In all these years he came to understand that it is fundamental and the very nature of naturopathic medicine to find and eliminate the obstacles that block the flow of vitality inside the human organism and to regain a state of inner balance where toxins can be dissolved, detoxified and excreted.

In his lecture about mitochondria and the role of toxins in oncology he will explain the problems we meet in our time from the perspective of a holistic oncologist and share his experiences about the detox- and mitochondrial support therapies that help us to live a good life, especially when it comes to prevent cancer or treat patients suffering from cancer. He will elucidate the important role of photo-bio-modulation-therapy, pulsed electromagnetic field therapy and hydrogen-inhalation as well as the importance of a healthy diet and detoxifying naturopathic remedies.