Abstract:
Most human functional systems are dual organized, with a supporting and a controlling system that maintains the balance of both through feedback mechanisms. In the case of illness, dysregulation is a temporarily necessary process that should end with the restauration of balance.
Over the passed 40 years, there has been a tendency towards ongoing deregulation of many functional systems which was also caused by environmental influences, infections, leaky gut, disturbences of the microbiome and vaccinations.
The loss of ballance of TH1 and TH2 cells, the complex population of B-cells, monocytes and macrophages, and the coincidence of long-terme changes in cytokine profiles and their interaction with microglia are highlighted and discussed as are the frustrating efforts to compensate actually developing trends in functional systems for preventive purposes.
Biography:
Kurt E. Müller pursued medical studies at the Universities of Cologne and Würzburg from 1966 to 1972, followed by specializing in Internal Medicine and Oncology from 1972 to 1976. Between 1977 and 1981, he focused on Dermatology and Venerology, fields in which he has been practicing since 1981. In addition to his medical practice, he pursued a specialization in Environmental Medicine from 1985 to 1991 and have been a lecturer on the subject across Germany, Austria, and Luxembourg since 1992. From 1996, he served as a board member of the German Association of Environmental Physicians ("Deutscher Berufsverband der Umweltmediziner e.V.") and held the position of president for a decade. He was also on the scientific board of the "Journal of Environmental Medicine" from 1998 to 2002 and participated in the "MCS-Study" at the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, between 1999 and 2002.
From 2002 to 2004, he contributed to quality control and immune diagnostics in Environmental Medicine as part of government commissions in Germany and Stuttgart. He was recognized as an expert for the Belgian National Action Plan on Environment and Health in 2003 and he chaired the European Academy for Environmental Medicine (EUROPAEM), where he currently serve as president. His involvement extended to various international environmental health initiatives, such as participating in the Environment & Health Action Plans in the Netherlands and Luxembourg in 2004 and 2005. In 2004, he also attended the 4th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health in Budapest. Between 2004 and 2005, he was a part of the strategic group for continuing education in Environmental Medicine at the University of Liège.
His expertise includes Occupational Dermatology, added in 2006, and from 2007 to 2024, he served as an Adjunct Professor for Clinical Environmental Medicine in the Master's program of Preventive and Functional Medicine at Dresden International University (DIU). He became a board member of the German Society for Lyme Borreliosis (DBG) in 2007 and served as president from 2010 to 2012. In 2021, he was invited by the Luxembourg Government to help establish an Environmental Unit as an expert.
