Symposium 2026

“The Exposome”

23-24 October 2026 · Bad Hotel Überlingen, Germany

The World Does Not Stop at Your Skin

From the first breath, the body accumulates its environment. Without pause, and largely without consent. The exposome is the record of that accumulation.
Modern disease cannot be understood inside the clinic alone. What surrounds us shapes what happens within us. The air, the water, the stress, the soil, the decades.

Over the coming days, we examine what this means in practice. Where exposure can be reduced. What can still be reversed. What changes when environment is treated not as background noise, but as a primary driver of disease.

These are the right questions.
And this is where we begin.

Details

Date: October 23–24, 2026
Start: Friday, 10:00 AM CET
End: Saturday, approx. 2:00 PM CET
Venue: Bad Hotel Überlingen

Please note that hotel rooms must be booked independently. We have secured dedicated room contingents at Bad Hotel Überlingen (the conference venue) as well as at selected nearby hotels. All details, prices, and booking information are provided in the registration form.

Registration

Conference fee: 450.00 € / CHF (incl. VAT)
This price includes access to the 1.5-day symposium and all meals on site.

The Unburden Symposium 2026 is an exclusive event for active Inuspheresis® Network Partners.
For questions and inquiries, please contact devices@ayus.health.

Speakers

We are assembling a distinguished lineup of speakers from across clinical medicine, research, and integrative practice. A sneak peak to our first speakers for this year’s event is available already and we will continue to update it as we progress with signing speakers.

**Prof. Dr. Stefan R. Bornstein** – Director of Medical Clinic and Polyclinic III, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden

**Dr. Antonietta M. Gatti** – Vice-President of the Nanodiagnostics Foundation

**Dr. med. Julia Wilke** – Chief Medical Officer; Functional Medicine Doctor at Health Performance Institute, Innsbruck

**Christian Burghardt** – Functional Medicine Expert at Burn-out-Diagnostik Institut München

**Dr. med. Uta Langer** – Privatärztliche Praxis Friedrichshafen

**Dr. Anusha Yoganathan** – MbChB, MRes CPET, Re:Cognition Health

**Dr. Anne Marie Fine, NMD, FAAEM** – Executive Director, Environmental Medicine Education International, LLC

**Dr. Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D**. – Leader in Integrative and Functional Medicine; Founding President of Bastyr University

Agenda

We are still finalising the programme for this year’s symposium. Additional speakers and session details will be announced in the coming weeks. Across the two days, the programme follows a clear thread: Day 1 explores what surrounds us, Day 2 turns to what we can do about it.

Prof. Dr. Stefan R. Bornstein

A Welcome Message

Prof. Bornstein, a pioneer in the field and speaker at our previous two symposiums, joins us this year with a recorded welcome message.

Dr. Antonietta M. Gatti

Inside the Tissue – Nanoparticles, Fertility, and the Limits of Detection

What the standard lab cannot see still accumulates. Dr. Antonietta Gatti pioneered the use of electron microscopy to find environmental nanoparticles inside human tissue – in tumours, in placentas, in sperm. Her work forces an uncomfortable question into every exposome discussion: if we cannot measure what is there, how do we treat it? This keynote bridges atmospheric and industrial exposure to the cellular and reproductive consequences we are only beginning to map.

Dr. Anusha Yoganathan

Apheresis in Alzheimer’s Disease: Exploring a Novel Therapeutic Approach

The emergence of disease-modifying therapies has transformed the management of Alzheimer’s disease. Alongside advances in anti-amyloid therapies, interest is growing in interventions that may target the biological processes underlying neurodegeneration.
This session explores the rationale and early clinical experience behind one of the most intriguing emerging approaches in Alzheimer’s care.

Dr. Joseph E. Pizzorno, N.D.

Getting It Out – The Science of Mobilisation

The more effectively we mobilise, the more effectively we clear. Toxicants stored in bone, adipose tissue, connective tissue, and organ parenchyma can persist for decades – but targeted mobilisation strategies can shift them into the vascular compartment, where extracorporeal therapies like Inuspheresis® reach them. Dr. Joseph Pizzorno has spent thirty years building the clinical framework for safe, systematic mobilisation – from chelation strategies and glutathione support to the biochemistry of phase I/II hepatic conjugation. This keynote bridges exposome science and clinical protocol: which compartments respond to which mobilisation approach, how to sequence preparation and clearance for maximum therapeutic yield, and how practitioners in this network can optimise their upstream protocols to get the most out of every Inuspheresis® session.

Dr. med. Uta Langer, Dr. med. Julia Wilke, and Christian Burghardt

Three Clinics, Three Patient Populations – Shared Learnings from the Network

Three clinics, three distinct patient populations, one shared protocol. Julia Wilke, Christian Burghardt and Uta Langer bring their real-world experience with Inuspheresis® to the stage – how they have integrated the therapy into their clinical workflows, which protocol adaptations have made the biggest difference, and what results they are seeing across different patient profiles. This is the session built for the room: network members sharing with network members what works, why, and what they have learned along the way.