The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) Conferences and Exhibits

🚨Exciting news!

A4M is proud to welcome the National University of Natural Medicine (NUNM) as an official partner.

Together, we’re committed to advancing practitioner education, whole-person care, and the future of medicine.

⭐Welcome to the A4M community, NUNM!

Detoxification has become a cornerstone of functional and longevity medicine, yet practitioners continue to see dramatically different patient responses. While some individuals experience meaningful improvements in health and vitality, others plateau, struggle with treatment, or fail to achieve lasting results. What accounts for the difference?

Join Dr. Drew Kidder, Vice President of Education at CellCore Biosciences, in conversation with Dr. Emily Hernandez, Naturopathic Doctor and Director of Healthcare Practitioner Education at CellCore, as they explore why successful detoxification depends on more than simply removing toxins.

Register now: https://go.a4m.com/4zmcKpr

Webinar co-sponsored by CellCore Biosciences

Autophagy is the body's cellular cleanup process, a method of removing damaged proteins, organelles, and pathogens by encircling them in double-membrane structures called autophagosomes.

The autophagosomes fuse with lysosomes, degrading and recycling the damaged cellular material into reusable building blocks like amino acids, fatty acids, and nucleotides to maintain cellular homeostasis, enable metabolic adaptation, and support the cellular stress response.

➡️Read the blog: https://go.a4m.com/3U1fWXA

Join us at the stunning Ga***rd Rockies Resort in Aurora, Colorado for three exceptional educational opportunities designed to advance your healthcare practice and patient care.

Whether you’re looking to enhance practice operations, master hormone therapy protocols, or become certified in clinical weight management - we have the perfect program for you!

📍 Ga***rd Rockies Resort, Aurora, CO

Secure your spot for this transformative learning experience!



💼 Streamline. Optimize. Succeed.

The Practice Management program at A4M Summer Sessions focuses on the business side of healthcare excellence.

Learn from industry experts how to:
🔧 Implement efficient operational workflows
📈 Maximize practice profitability
👥 Build high-performing teams
📊 Leverage technology for better outcomes

Designed for healthcare professionals, practice managers, and administrators who want to create thriving, patient-centered practices.

Ready to take your practice to the next level?

🧬 Precision. Confidence. Results.

Dive deep into the complexities of hormone replacement therapy with our intensive Masterclass.

This hands-on program covers:
⚖️ Individualized dosing strategies for optimal outcomes
🔬 Advanced protocols for both men and women
📋 Real patient case studies and problem-solving
🎯 Fine-tuning adjustments based on patient response

Perfect for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, and naturopathic doctors seeking mastery in hormone optimization.

Transform your hormone therapy practice with evidence-based expertise!

⚖️ Address America’s #1 Health Challenge

With obesity rates at an all-time high, specialized weight management expertise is crucial.

Our comprehensive certification program equips you with:
💊 Latest GLP-1 and pharmaceutical interventions
🧠 Behavioral modification strategies
🍎 Nutritional counseling techniques
🏃‍♀️ Exercise prescription protocols
🎯 Personalized treatment planning

Become a certified specialist in clinical weight management and make a lasting impact on your patients’ lives and health outcomes.
The future of healthca

❓Are the keys to healthy aging hidden in the human digestive tract?

Emerging research shows that the gut microbiome, with its trillions of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microbes, is a major factor in determining how we age, how long we live, and how well our body's defenses protect against systemic inflammation and disease.

The link between a diverse gut microbiome and an improved healthspan means that promoting gut health through diet, lifestyle, and targeted therapeutics may offer a viable path to healthy aging.

➡️Read more in this week's blog: https://go.a4m.com/4qdOp17

The future of longevity medicine will be shaped by an organization’s ability to transform ever-growing volumes of health data into actionable clinical intelligence.

In this session, David Korsunsky, Founder and CEO of Heads Up, explores how AI and intelligent agents are helping longevity practices synthesize data, automate workflows and scale expertise within the practice.

🔗Register now: https://go.a4m.com/4qerK4U

Webinar co-sponsored by Heads Up

Some children get better on everything you’d expect to work. Some don’t.

Same protocol. Same clinician. Different child.

For years I assumed the ones who didn’t respond were missing a piece of the functional medicine workup. They weren’t. What they were missing was the cellular signal of safety – the all-clear that the alarm bells can switch off, and the body and mind can return to health. Until a child’s nervous system registers safety, the cellular alarm doesn’t switch off, and healing doesn’t finish.

This is the Health and Healing Cycle, and the alarm that sets off the Cell Danger Response – so beautifully described by Dr. Robert Naviaux.

🧠 That’s the piece almost nobody was taught. Not the diet, not the exposures, not the sleep. The signal that tells the body it’s over.

It’s also the most accessible thing to change. Breathing, humming, singing, gargling. Most of that list is free.

I’ve walked through the whole mechanism in the post — cellular how the alarm gets stuck, what the vagus has to do with it, how to measure vagal tone, and why the microbiome is part of the same conversation.

This is such an important topic for pediatric practitioners that as Chair for A4M Pediatrics, I’ve chosen 2 sessions on this for our Pediatrics Reimagined Summit in Nasvhille. Mine on Friday discussing the microbiome, neuroception and the cell danger response. And Navaz Habib, DC | Vagus Nerve Doc Pediatric V.A.G.U.S. Protocol on Saturday. I’ll give you the mechanism. He’ll give you the protocol.

👉 Join me at A4M Pediatrics Reimagined

📅 September 17–19 · JW Marriott, Nashville · CME available
🔗 https://www.a4m.com/pediatrics-reimagined-2026.html
⏳ Use code TAKEOVER15 for 15% off now through Sunday, August 9

👉Please share with any pediatric practitioners who would find this useful!

Dr. Elisa Song, MD
Chair, A4M Pediatrics
Founder, Healthy Kids Happy Kids

Do we really know the “safe” level of toxins in our kids?

The honest answer is that often what we believe to be safe today, is proven to not be later.

⚖️ We’ve lowered the “safe” level of lead five times since 1960. We’ve never once raised it. Sixty. Then thirty. Then twenty-five. Then ten. Today, no safe level.

It’s not about knowing what’s safe today. It’s about knowing how to build resilience to keep our kids safe for a lifetime. Because let’s face it - avoiding every toxin is not possible in our modern world.

Our children don’t just face one toxic compound at a time - they face multiple. And we have no data on the cumulative and synergistic effects of these combined exposures.

Our patients face exposure from conception onward — that argues against aggressive protocols, not for them.

🌱 The work is making detoxification a lifestyle.

I’ve put the foundations of this work in the post, including fiber, phytonutrients, fermented foods, the four routes of elimination, and what each one can and can’t clear.

👉 Learn more at A4M Pediatrics Reimagined Symposium. We have 4 sessions on this in Nashville, including Dr. Bruce Lanphear of Little Things Matter – the leading expert and advocate on toxicants and children.

📅 September 17–19 · JW Marriott, Nashville · CME available
🔗 https://www.a4m.com/pediatrics-reimagined-2026.html
⏳ Use code TAKEOVER15 for 15% off. It’s good through Sunday, August 9.

Dr. Elisa Song, MD
Chair, A4M Pediatrics
Founder, Healthy Kids Happy Kids

Today's children are facing chronic illness at rates we've never seen — anxiety, ADHD, autoimmunity, eczema, PANS/PANDAS, and more. But beneath the diagnoses lies a connected story: the gut, the brain, and the environment are all shaping our kids' health from the ground up.

In this live webinar, Dr. Elisa Song will connect the dots — showing how the gut-brain axis and everyday toxic exposures drive pediatric chronic illness, and how a root-cause, resilience-focused approach can transform outcomes.

🔗Register now: https://go.a4m.com/454LCh1

🚨Don't forget to join us on Instagram all day tomorrow for a Social Media Takeover by Dr. Elisa Song leading up to the live webinar tomorrow evening!🚨