Monday, March 13, 2023

2023 SCDROCKS Conference

 

Join the Specific Carbohydrate Diet community, including followers, parents, caregivers, doctors, clinicians, companies, and others from around the world! The SCDROCKS Conference weekend on August 5 and 6, 2023 will be filled with 100% SCD-compliant food. You will not need to cook or wash dishes. Meeting with other community members in person, after days, months, and years communicating online will be a priceless experience! The speakers as well as the inspirational stories will leave you with memories for a lifetime! There will be presentations and activities for all ages to help us learn, while we enjoy a weekend of engagement! Our conference venue is Bellevue College, Student Success Center (U). It is located at 3000 Landerholm Circle SE, Bellevue, WA 98007.

      Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Alessio Fasano

 


A pediatric gastroenterologist, Alessio Fasano, MD is head of the Mucosal Immunology and Biology Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and professor of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In 2000, his group discovered zonulin, a protein associated with gut dysbiosis that regulates intestinal tight junctions. His basic research focuses on bacterial pathogenesis, gut microbiome composition and function in health and disease, the regulation of gut permeability, intestinal mucosal biology and immunology and SARS-CoV2. He is director of the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment at MGH and widely sought after as an expert in celiac disease, intestinal permeability and autoimmune disorders. Dr. Fasano is the author of Gluten Freedom and co-author with Susie Flaherty of Gut Feelings: The Microbiome and Our Health, published in March 2021 by MIT Press.

For more information visit The Specific Carbohydrate Diet Association's SCDROCKS conference page here: https://scdrocks.org/

See you all there!