Lifestyle & Functional Medicine, Ireland

Lifestyle & Functional Medicine, Ireland Empowering practitioners through high-quality, evidence-based education and events that inform and inspire lasting good health

An Annual Functional and Lifestyle Medicine conference. The Mission of the FMC is to redefine healthcare, and to support, empower and educate healthcare professional on the principles of functional and lifestyle medicine. Join the FMC and learn from world class experts and network with other like-minded integrative healthcare practitioners.

14/05/2026

The biological zombies ageing your patients from the inside…

Senescent cells - they don’t die or divide, they just stay and according to an emerging and rapidly growing body of research, what they do while they stay is driving some of the most significant age-related disease patterns showing up in functional medicine practices today.

Cellular senescence and inflamm-ageing are the subject of some of the most clinically significant research in longevity medicine today - and they sit at the heart of what Dr Robert Rountree is bringing to Dublin this November.

At FMC 2026 his Day 2 session goes deep into exactly this territory.

The Role of Inflamm-Ageing and Cellular Senescence in Age-Related Diseases builds directly on his Day 1 talk, Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Chronic Disease: The Influence of Nutrition and Lifestyle, where he explores what nutrition and lifestyle are doing to your patients at a cellular level and how that connects to chronic disease.

Two talks from a clinician who has been at the forefront of this field for longer than most.

Dr Rountree is an original founding member of the Institute for Functional Medicine and recipient of the 2015 Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Award, one of the most distinguished recognitions in the field. He has been in clinical practice for over four decades.

If you want to understand what cellular senescence and inflamm-ageing actually mean for the patients sitting across from you, this is the session that delivers it.

Join us for FMC 2026 on 14th and 15th November in the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin.

Early bird tickets close 30th June with two-day tickets costing €349. One or two day tickets are €220.

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13/05/2026

This is what world class functional medicine education looks like in 2026.

Two days with world class international speakers and every one of them working at the frontier of functional and longevity medicine right now.

Every session is designed to close the gap between where the science is and where most clinical education has been willing to go.

This is FMC 2026.

Dr Robert Rountree on mitochondrial dysfunction, inflamm-ageing and cellular senescence - the biological mechanisms driving the chronic disease and accelerated decline most standard panels are not picking up.

Dr Datis Kharrazian on the essential and clinical considerations for longevity medicine - the framework that turns longevity from a concept into a clinical discipline.

Dr Deanna Minich on a woman’s endocrine symphony and the seven rhythms of life - where cutting edge nutritional science meets whole person health across the full lifespan.

Dr Shania Seeber on the four main obstacles to cure and the mouth microbiome connection to systemic health - the upstream clinical framework your most stuck patients have been waiting for.

Pete Williams on precision longevity and movement as a clinical marker - where functional medicine finally meets conventional cardiology in one coherent framework.

Dr Joel Evans and Heidi Jackson on harnessing the mental, emotional and spiritual dimensions of health and healing and spiritual nutrition - the clinical reality the most effective practitioners in the world have been quietly working with for decades.

Dr Gary Goldman on women’s hormonal health - the functional medicine lens on one of the most underserved areas in conventional clinical practice.

Special hotel rates at the Croke Park Hotel.

This is the ninth annual FMC conference and the most ambitious programme we have built yet.

Early bird tickets close 30th June with two-day tickets costing €349. One or two day tickets are €220.

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12/05/2026

What is the difference between a patient who heals and one who does not, when everything else is identical?

You can have the same diagnosis and protoco; and the same practitioner. And despite the same commitment, one gets better and the other does not.

Every functional medicine practitioner has seen this and almost none of them have found a satisfying clinical answer for it - because the answer does not come from a framework built entirely around biochemistry and physiology.

At FMC 2026, Dr Joel Evans and Heidi Jackson bring that evidence base into the room.

Dr Evans is a board certified OB/GYN, Director of the Centre for Functional Medicine in Ridgefield CT and former Chief of Medical Affairs at the Institute for Functional Medicine. Engaged in mind body medicine since 1997 — with clinical service following the Kosovo bombings, with the FDNY after 9/11 and with mental health professionals post Hurricane Katrina. Senior faculty at the Centre for Mind Body Medicine and joined their Board of Directors in July 2023.

Heidi Jackson is senior faculty at the Centre for Mind Body Medicine and the only CMBM faculty member based in Ireland with over ten years as an Oncology Nurse and Complementary Therapist at Tallaght Hospital Dublin. In July 2023 she travelled to Kiev to train 150 educators and healthcare workers and returned in October 2024 to go even deeper.

Their Day 1 talk: Harnessing the Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Aspects of Health and Healing looks at the question every practitioner has been sitting with and explores the answer.

Join us for FMC 2026 on 14th and 15th November in the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin.

Early bird tickets close 30th June with two-day tickets costing €349. One or two day tickets are €220.

Comment FMC below for ticket link or click the link in bio to secure your place before early bird closes.

There is a gap between functional medicine and conventional cardiology - most of the time neither discipline notices.Th...
11/05/2026

There is a gap between functional medicine and conventional cardiology - most of the time neither discipline notices.

The cardiologist manages the markers and follows the guidelines.

The functional medicine practitioner asks about inflammation, the microbiome, mitochondrial function, lifestyle load.

And yet the patient, sitting somewhere between both worlds - is not getting the full picture from either of them.

Because these two disciplines are still largely running in parallel and speaking different languages about the same patient. Often using different frameworks to interpret the same biology - the gap between them is where precision longevity lives - and where most patients are currently falling through the gap.

Pete Williams is an Exercise and Medical Scientist, IFMCP and founder of Functional Medicine Associates. His cardiology group blends functional medicine with conventional cardiology care.

His work focuses on preventative cardiology - cardiometabolic and vascular health, cognitive decline and vascular inflammation - integrating insights from genetics, the microbiome and the exposome into a systems-based approach to chronic disease prevention and management.

At FMC 2026 his Day 1 session brings both worlds into one clinical framework.

Precision Longevity: Where Functional Medicine Meets Conventional Cardiology is the session that gives you the tools to stop choosing between two disciplines and start using both.

Join us for FMC 2026 on 14th and 15th November in the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin.

Early bird tickets close 30th June with two-day tickets costing €349. One or two day tickets are €220.

Comment FMC below for ticket link or click the link in bio to secure your place before early bird closes.

10/05/2026

The venue every serious functional medicine practitioner needs to be in this November…

FMC 2026 is the ninth annual Functional Medicine Conference in Ireland - and this November we are bringing together some of the most forward-thinking clinical minds in functional and longevity medicine for two days that will change how you practise.

The theme is Advancing Healthspan: A Functional Medicine Approach to Mind, Body and Longevity.

Because lifespan is getting longer and healthspan is not keeping up. And that gap is the most important clinical challenge every practitioner in this room is facing.

Here is who is coming to Dublin to help you close that gap.

Dr Robert Rountree - on mitochondrial dysfunction, inflamm-ageing and cellular senescence.
Dr Datis Kharrazian - on essential and clinical considerations for longevity medicine.
Dr Deanna Minich - on a woman’s endocrine symphony and the seven rhythms of life.
Dr Shania Seeber - on the four main obstacles to cure and the mouth, microbiome and systemic health connection.
Pete Williams - on precision longevity and movement as a clinical marker for endothelial health.
Dr Joel Evans and Heidi Jackson on harnessing the mental, emotional and spiritual dimensions of health and spiritual nutrition.
Dr Gary Goldman - on women’s hormonal health.

We have two outstanding learning days planned with expert functional medicine speakers worth 16 CPD hours. All content will be recorded with presentation PDFs. Networking. A complimentary 12-hour online Longevity Course valued at US$795. And special hotel rates at the Croke Park Hotel.

This never was just a conference and it never will be.

Join us for FMC 2026 on 14th and 15th November in the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin.

Early bird tickets close 30th June with two-day tickets costing €349. One or two day tickets are €220.

Comment FMC below for ticket link or click the link in bio to secure your place before early bird closes.

09/05/2026

Your patient is stuck, read on to find out why…

They changed the diet and fixed the sleep, took the supplements and followed the protocol to the letter, but they are still in your clinic and stuck…

There is an obstacle to their healing and you need to find it. And until those obstacles are identified and removed, nothing you put into the body is going to do what it should.

Dr Shania Seeber has spent over twenty years asking: ‘what is blocking this patient’s ability to heal before we try to push them in any direction at all?’

At FMC 2026, her Day 1 session aims to look at this obstacle to healing issue

The 4 Main Obstacles to Cure covers the four main barriers that are silently preventing your most complex patients from recovering -including the exosome, the cell danger response and the overall effect these obstacles have on chronic inflammation, mitochondrial function and longevity.

This is a clinical framework that will make you look at your most stuck patients with completely fresh eyes.

Dr Seeber is a Doctor of Complementary and Alternative Medicine with over twenty years of clinical experience specialising in hormone health and detoxification. She is a dedicated advocate of functional medicine, skilled in advanced testing techniques that uncover the root causes of illness. She is also the author of two clinical guides: Bad Stuff Out and Good Stuff In and Harmonious Hormones, both available on Amazon.

Her Day 2 session goes even deeper - moving from the four obstacles into the mouth, the microbiome and beyond.

FMC 2026 takes place on 14th and 15th November at the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin. Early bird tickets close 30th June with two-day tickets costing €349. One day tickets cost €220.

Comment FMC below for the ticket link or click the link in bio before early bird closes.

08/05/2026

The female body does not decline with age, it changes key. And there is a profound clinical difference between those two things.

When we frame hormonal transitions as decline, as something to be managed, slowed down or reversed, we miss the intelligence of what the female endocrine system is actually doing.

From menarche through perimenopause to menopause and beyond, these changes are adaptations. Shifts in a dynamic, rhythmic conversation between hormones, environment, circadian biology and lived experience that most clinical training never prepares us for.

Chasing individual hormone levels back into range is not the same as understanding what those hormones are communicating. And for the women sitting across from you every day - exhausted, dismissed, told their results are normal for their age - that distinction is everything.

Dr Deanna Minich has spent her career building a clinical framework that honours both the science and the lived experience of women’s health across the full lifespan.
A nutrition scientist, functional medicine practitioner and 2025 recipient of the Linus and Ava Helen Pauling Award in Functional Medicine, she is the author of The Rainbow Diet and Whole Detox and is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and a Certified Nutrition Specialist.

Her work sits at the intersection of nutritional science and whole-person health.

At FMC 2026 her Day 1 session - A Woman’s Endocrine Symphony: Where Science Meets Spirit Across the Lifespan, explores women’s hormonal health through a systems lens that integrates circadian biology, environmental influences and nutritional modulation. No need for set of numbers to chase, this is a continuum of coherence to understand.

This is the session that gives you a completely different language for the women who seek out your help.

FMC 2026. 14th and 15th November. Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin. Early bird tickets close 30th June. Two-day ticket €349. One or two day ticket €220.

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06/05/2026

Chronic disease does not start with a diagnosis, it starts in the mitochondria.

By the time a patient sits across from you with a label attached to what they are experiencing, the process driving it has been building for years.

Simmering under the surface at a cellular level, long before any test picked it up and long before anyone had a name for it.

Mitochondria are not just the powerhouse of the cell.

When mitochondrial function breaks down, several other things break down with it. Energy production, inflammatory regulation, hormonal signalling, immune function and neurological health, all the conditions that appear look like separate problems but they are not. They are different expressions of the same underlying dysfunction and most clinical approaches are treating the expressions while the root cause keeps driving.

Nutrition and lifestyle are not support acts in this story, they are the main event. The specific nutritional inputs that mitochondria need to function and the lifestyle factors that accelerate their decline need a practitioner who understands this at the mechanistic level that most practitioners simply do not.

At FMC 2026, Dr Robert Rountree is looking at exactly this. Original founding member of the Institute for Functional Medicine. Recipient of the 2015 Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Award and with over four decades of clinical practice behind him: Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Chronic Disease: The Influence of Nutrition and Lifestyle.

If you work with chronic disease and every functional medicine practitioner does — this is the session that upends how you think about every chronic disease patient sitting across from you.

FMC 2026. 14th and 15th November. Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin.

Early bird tickets close 30th June. Two-day ticket €349 and one or two day tickets are €220.
Comment FMC below or click the link in bio before early bird closes.

05/05/2026

Lifespan is getting longer but healthspan is not keeping up.

And that gap, between how long your patients live and how well they live, is the most important clinical challenge in functional medicine right now.

FMC 2026 was built around exactly that challenge.

Advancing Healthspan: A Functional Medicine Approach to Mind, Body and Longevity brings together some of the most forward-thinking clinical minds in functional and longevity medicine for two days of education that goes directly at the mechanisms, the clinical frameworks and the practical tools that close that gap for your patients.

Here is what we will be covering.
Dr Robert Rountree Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Chronic Disease: The Influence of Nutrition and Lifestyle The Role of Inflamm-Ageing and Cellular Senescence in Age-Related Diseases

Dr Datis Kharrazian Essential Clinical Concepts for Longevity Medicine Clinical Considerations for Longevity Medicine

Dr Deanna Minich A Woman's Endocrine Symphony: Where Science Meets Spirit Across the Lifespan The 7 Rhythms of Life: Aligning Biology, Consciousness and Cosmos for Whole-Person Health

Dr Shania Seeber The 4 Main Obstacles to Cure The Mouth, Microbiome and Systemic Health

Pete Williams Precision Longevity: Where Functional Medicine Meets Conventional Cardiology Measure Movement, Not Just Markers: Practical Exercise Tools for Longevity and Endothelial Health

Dr Joel Evans and Heidi Jackson Harnessing the Mental, Emotional and Spiritual Aspects of Health and Healing Spiritual Nutrition: Using Food to Nourish More Than Just Our Biochemistry

Dr Gary Goldman’s talk will be confirmed.

World class international speakers for two days with sixteen CPD hours. And every single session designed to change how you think about the patients sitting across from you.

FMC 2026. 14th and 15th November. Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin.

Early bird tickets close 30th June. Two-day ticket €349. One or two day ticket €220.

Comment FMC below or click the link in bio to secure your place before early bird closes.

This never was ‘just a conference’…10 years ago a vision was planted - a vision for a functional medicine community in I...
04/05/2026

This never was ‘just a conference’…

10 years ago a vision was planted - a vision for a functional medicine community in Ireland that was informed, inspired and genuinely connected to each other and to the science driving the field forward.

That vision became the Irish Lifestyle and Functional Medicine Conference. And this November, FMC Ireland returns for its ninth annual conference - aiming to be the most ambitious programme we have put together yet.

But I want to be honest about where we are going.

FMC 2026 is not just about two days in November. It is about something much larger that I am committed to building - an international functional medicine community that comes together regularly to share knowledge, learn from each other and lead the way with best practice across the industry.

The annual conference is where we meet in person but the community is what we are building for the long term. And it starts this November.

I have lined up world-class international speakers for two days with sixteen CPD hours. And a room full of the most forward-thinking functional medicine practitioners in Ireland and Europe- all asking the same questions, facing the same challenges and committed to the same thing.

We want to see better medicine, better outcomes and better answers for our patients who need them most.

FMC 2026. Advancing Healthspan: A Functional Medicine Approach to Mind, Body and Longevity. 14th and 15th November. Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin.

Early bird tickets close 30th June. The Two-day ticket is €349 and one or two day ticket are available at €220.�
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03/05/2026

What a Saturday.

We are so grateful to Dr Datis Kharrazian for bringing his extraordinary depth of clinical knowledge to Dublin yesterday for the FMC exclusive in-person Masterclass on Chronic Pain: A Functional Medicine Approach.

On the day Dr Kharrazian looked at the neurophysiology of pain syndromes, clinical evaluation and clinical treatment of pain syndromes - a full day of advanced clinical education that challenged, expanded and reframed how we think about chronic pain at a mechanisms level.

This is exactly the kind of day that FMC was built for and we plan to expand on that.

A huge thank you also to Doctor’s Data, our joint platinum sponsor, for making today possible and to Dr Richard Rocker for his session exploring the role of gut dysfunction in persistent pain conditions.

If you missed the day, do not let November pass you by.

Dr Kharrazian will be back at the FMC two-day Annual Conference on 14th and 15th November at the Hogan Suite, Croke Park, Dublin.

The theme is Advancing Healthspan: A Functional Medicine Approach to Mind, Body and Longevity - and the speaker lineup is exceptional.

Dr Datis Kharrazian on essential and clinical considerations for longevity medicine. Dr Robert Rountree on mitochondrial dysfunction and inflamm-ageing. Dr Deanna Minich on whole person health across the lifespan. Dr Shania Seeber on the four main obstacles to healing and the mouth microbiome. Pete Williams on precision longevity and movement as a clinical marker. Dr Joel Evans and Heidi Jackson on harnessing the mental, emotional and spiritual dimensions of health and spiritual nutrition. Dr Gary Goldman on women’s hormonal health.

World class international speakers with a two day event for one of the most clinically comprehensive events in functional medicine this year.

Tickets are on sale now and seats are strictly limited.

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