wHY DO YOU NEED TO ATTEND A SLiiM DINNER?

This is a great opportunity to build a referral network with the functional healthcare community! Four times a year the St. Louis Institute of Integrative Medicine hosts Dinner & Discussion events for medical professionals only.

Practitioners love to use this time to connect with the health industry pros and share ideas with colleagues over a delicious gluten and dairy free meal. Sip perfectly paired wine while participating in an open discussion forum with like-minded professionals.

SLiiM members are granted FIRST DIBS to attend the dinners! This is a bonus because dinners always SELL OUT! Space permitting, the event is then opened up to all healthcare professionals who are non-members.

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SLiiM Dinners & Discussions Are For Certified Practitioners Only

For more information about the dinners, please contact us at info@sliim.org or call us at 314-399-8406

NEXT SLiiM DINNER

September 17th 2026

Detox by Design: Creating more effective protocols

As a functional medicine provider, you’re already supporting detoxification—but are you looking beyond the pathways to understand why some patients respond beautifully to detox protocols while others plateau, react, or simply don’t improve?

Most clinicians are already well-versed in supporting Phase I/II liver pathways, glutathione status, and elimination routes. But detoxification is not a static pathway—it’s a dynamic, adaptive system influenced by environmental exposures, metabolic byproducts, microbial metabolites, nutrient status, immune activation, mitochondrial function, gut health, and a patient’s overall physiological capacity.

So the question may no longer be simply:

“How do we support detoxification?”

But rather…

Why isn’t this patient clearing effectively—and where is the process breaking down?

In some cases, mobilizing unwanted compounds is only part of the equation. If clearance capacity, elimination pathways, mitochondrial resilience, gut integrity, or other interconnected systems aren’t adequately supported, even a well-designed protocol may not produce the outcome we expect. Understanding these relationships allows us to move beyond generalized detox support and begin thinking more strategically about burden, capacity, bottlenecks, and sequencing.

Join us for a fun-filled evening as we take a deeper look at the nuances of detoxification that can determine why protocols succeed—or fail. Explore how to identify potential functional bottlenecks beyond the standard Phase I/II/III framework. Examine the relationship between toxic burden, immune activation, mitochondrial strain, gut permeability, and the gut-liver-brain axis. Discuss the difference between simply “supporting detox” and building a patient’s capacity to effectively process and clear. Work through clinical considerations for sequencing interventions in complex, multi-system patients. Exchange insights, challenges, and strategies with like-minded colleagues who are actively implementing detox protocols in their practice! Leave with practical takeaways that you can implement to better support your patients' detoxification & resilience!

Early Bird Tickets are on sale NOW!

Date: September 17th, 2026

Time: 6:30pm

Location: Old Orchard Gallery- 39 S Old Orchard Ave, Webster Groves, MO 63119

Meeting Agenda

Wine & Networking 6:30 - 7:00
Feel free to socialize in a casual, low-key setting.

Dinner & Discussion 7:00-8:30

There’s an open discussion where we share ideas about disease states from an integrative standpoint while learning from each other. Attendees like to say they get “clinical pearls” after participating and sharing with the group. We will be serving a delicious gluten and dairy free meal.

Benefits of Attending

• Meet like-minded practitioners in your field

• Gain an integrative medicine referral network

• Discuss disease states in an open forum