From Illness to Wellness: Using Nutrition for Autoimmunity

Podcast Guest: Haylie Pomroy is Founder and CEO of The Haylie Pomroy Group, an integrative health care practice that helps clients achieve their health, wellness, and weight loss goals through patient empowerment, strategic programs, and the understanding of how food can be used as medicine.

As a Health Strategist for over 25 years, Haylie is a sought-after Wellness Consultant who has worked with nationally recognized and highly regarded physicians at top hospitals and medical institutions throughout the world. Her expertise has helped diagnose and heal a wide range of issues and disorders related not just to weight and metabolic dysfunction but also to digestion, hormonal balance, autoimmunity, and more.

Haylie’s journey began when she was diagnosed with her own autoimmune disorder. Her research into the mechanisms and biochemistry of her disease led to the development of a supplement line and a range of customized metabolic programs that focus on the strategic application of nutrient-dense foods and supplements to help others reclaim their health in the most efficient, effective, and safest way possible.

Haylie’s formal education in agricultural and animal science at Colorado State University allowed her to acquire a deep understanding of how nutrition can drastically impact not just animals but plants, the soil, food sources, the human body, and ultimately, health in general, as it applies to multiple systems. She went on to study herbal medicine, homeopathy, biochemistry, biofeedback, micronutrients, laboratory testing, and patient advocacy, in order to create a truly integrative healthcare approach for her community. She continues to study, in a constant quest to evolve her understanding of what creates and maintains health. As a sought-after Hollywood nutritionist, Haylie’s clientele has included A-list actors, musicians, and athletes. She has appeared in national broadcast interviews, podcasts, and has served as a lecturer at notable health events.

In addition to The Haylie Pomroy Group, Haylie is also a doctoral candidate at Nova Southeastern University, a celebrity nutritionist and New York Times bestselling author of The Fast Metabolism Diet.

 

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Long COVID Research

Nova Southeastern University’s Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine (INIM) focuses on the post-viral phase following acute infection, commonly known as “Long COVID.” Our research includes surveys to assess long-term health risks, biomarker analysis, and clinical observation to characterize patient phenotypes. Additionally, we are conducting trials of carefully selected therapeutic agents to alleviate Long COVID symptoms. Through these efforts, we aim to enhance treatment strategies for Long COVID and other neuro-inflammatory conditions.

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Gulf War Illness Research

Gulf War Illness is a constellation of chronic multisymptom illnesses born from the 1990 -1991 Persian Gulf War, operationally identified as Desert Shield/Desert Storm. During Operation Desert Shield/Storm, 700,000 U.S. Service Members deployed to the Persian Gulf to liberate Kuwait in response to Iraqi annexation. The toxicants that service members endured included anthrax/botulinum vaccinations, oil well fires, chemical/biological weapons, depleted uranium, noise, Chemical Agent Resistant Coating (CARC), pyridostigmine bromide (PB), pesticides, sand, dust, particulates, toxic embedded fragments, infectious diseases, heat injuries, and occupational hazards.

The Gulf War Illness Clinical Trials and Interventions Consortium (GWICTIC) is a collaborative research group promoting an innovative, efficient and evidence-based process to perform clinical trials in veterans with Gulf War Illness. Led by Dr. Nancy Klimas, the team combines extensive experience in neuro-immunology, clinical trials, and program management to advance understanding and treatment for veterans suffering from this complex illness.

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Computational Clinical Systems Biology

Computational Clinical Systems Biology

The Computational Clinical Systems Biology Group consists of a group of enthusiastic individuals, David Quesada-Saliba PhD (Director and Computational Biology), Baian Khanjar  MS (Data Analysts), Jonathan Herrera (Data Management and data security protocols) who are engaged in providing support for data management, data security protocols, statistical analyses, and mathematical clinical systems modeling aligned with projects of interest for INIM.

Current projects include:

  • Long term COVID, longitudinal and phenotyping platforms. The team is assisting to manipulate REDCap data management system, produce reports and do preliminary analyses.
  • In-Depth GWI phenotyping study along with Miami VA. Detailed statistical analysis aimed at finding patterns among clinical tests and physical functioning questionnaires. Such patterns will permit improving treatment efforts with GWI veterans.
  • BACOPA GWI project. Statistical analysis of the influence of dietary life styles of GWI veterans and evaluate the role of diets on the possibility of symptom’s control of these patients.

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