Attilio Speciani
Attilio Francesco Speciani (born 13 november 1955) is an Italian immunologist.
Education[edit]
A cum laude graduate in Medicine & Surgery, he is a member of the Milan Order of Physicians since 1979. During the course of his studies at the University of Milan, he also earned a Diploma as an Acupuncturist Physician from the University of Turin.
After his graduation, he obtained a first specialisation in Anaesthesiology and Emergency care (1982), and he worked as Full Assistant in the Centre for Anaesthesia and Emergency Care of the Istituto Ortopedico Gaetano Pini, in Milan. In 1990 he specialised also in Allergy and Clinical Immunology; he then concluded his hospital work experience, and turned the focus of his professional and scientific activity towards applied research in the field of nutrition, inflammation and its immunological aspects, always with keen attention towards the correlation between different therapeutic methodologies.
Working in fields with important technological and scientific impact like immunology and the study of inflammation, he always attributed great value to the integration of classical medical and scientific aspects with those of complementary medicine, coming, in his medical practice, to a conciliation between these disciplines, that are in common opinion often considered alternative to each other if not downright conflictual. Since 2010, he also operates in London as a fully licensed Medical Doctor, after registering that year with the General Medical Council and passing the Revalidation test in 2015, extending his “fitness to practice” until 2020.
Teaching and research activities[edit]
From 1997 to 2000 he taught at the Specialization Master in Integrated Phlebo-lymphology Therapies, at the Università di Siena. From 2008 to 2013 he has been a teacher at the Master in Phytotherapy of the Università degli Studi in Milan; in the same period he taught at the course of Nutrition and Phytotherapy in Gastroenterology of the Phytotherapy Master for Physicians at the University of Bologna.
The constant application of scientific methodology in the daily practice of nutritional immunology brought many students, physicians and biologists of the aforementioned master courses to do internships, coordinated by the respective Universities, at the poly-specialistic structures (SMA and GEK) in Milan where he is Medical Director. From 1990 he is an active member of the New York Academy of Science and of the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI).
In June 2000 he has been nominated by Regional Decree to be part of the Lombardy CTS (Scientific Technical Committee for the evaluation, development control and verification of results of the active projects in complementary medicine). In January 2004 his role as a member of CTS was confirmed, and he has been a member until 2010.
The study of the effects to nutrition in the immunological field brought him to intensify his clinical research into food related inflammation, coming to identify two specific inflammatory cytokines (BAFF and PAF) that represent a specific measurement instrument for the level of food-related inflammation present in the body.[1][2][3][4] This allowed him to go beyond the concept of “food intolerance” and work in a scientifically reproducible manner on the clinical effects of a personalised change in food intake during the course of different pathologies, like it has been observed in the studies conducted with Enrico Ferrazzi at the Department for “Woman, mother and newborn” at the Ospedale per Bambini Vittore Buzzi, at the Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento and the Biological and Clinical School of the University of Milan.[5][6]
These researches brought him to consider food as a “friend”, as opposed to those who, especially in the field of food hypersensitivities, propose the opposite, negative view. Immunological tolerance towards different foods and the control of food-related inflammation are, in his opinion, of fundamental importance for the correctly maintaining well-being.
The studies by Ligaarden and Finkelman, with the appropriate suggestions emerging from the works developed with Ferrazzi, brought him first to the statistical and scientific definition of the Great Food Groups, and then to the definition of the Personal Food Profile, in which the role of the food IgGs does not represent the outdated concept of “antibodies against food”[7][8] but instead an indication of an excessive introduction of the foods correlated with a specified Great Food Group.
Publishing activities[edit]
In the year 2000, he founded eurosalus.com, an on-line magazine providing daily information dedicated to the relationship between food, inflammation and health. Writer of essays, since 1986 he has written 30 books, some in cooperation with other authors. He has currently 24 scientific works published to his name, amongst which specific chapters of 3 university medical textbooks.
References[edit]
- ↑ Piuri G, Soriano J, Speciani MC, Speciani AF (2013). "B cell activating factor (BAFF) and platelet activating factor (PAF) could both be markers of non-IgE-mediated reactions". Clin Transl Allergy. 3 (suppl 3). doi:10.1186/2045-7022-3-S3-O5. PMC 3723786.
- ↑ Lied GA, Lillestøl K, Valeur J, Berstad A (2010). "Intestinal B cell-activating factor: an indicator of non-IgE-mediated hypersensitivity reactions to food?". Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 32. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2036.2010.04314.x.
- ↑ Lied GA, Berstad A (2011). "Functional and clinical aspects of the B-cell-activating factor (BAFF): a narrative review". Scand J Immunol. 73 (1): 1–7. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3083.2010.02470.x. PMID 21128997.
- ↑ "Two innovative inflammation biomarkers for the measurment of inflammation in pregnancy". paper introduced at 24th meeting ECPM. 2014.
- ↑ Speciani AF, Piuri G, Ferrazzi E (2012). "IgG levels to food correlate with nutritional exposure to food antigens but a methodological weakness of this research prevents the recognition of yeast-related foods as a possible cause of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Comment to IgG and IgG4 antibodies in subjects with irritable bowel syndrome: a case control study in the general population". BMC Gastroenterology. doi:10.1186/1471-230X-12-166.
- ↑ Speciani A (2015). Nutrition around the clock and inflammation: the right food at the right time makes the difference. Metabolic Syndrome and Complications of Pregnancy: The Potential Preventing Role of Nutrition. Heidelberg: Springer Science Publisher. Search this book on
- ↑ Speciani AF, Soriano J, Speciani MC, Piuri G (2013). "Five great food clusters of specific IgG for 44 common food antigens. A new approach to the epidemiology of food allergy". Clin Transl Allergy. 3 (supply 3). doi:10.1186/2045-7022-3-S3-P67. PMC 3723949.
- ↑ Speciani AF, Piuri G, Soriano J, Ferrazzi E (2015). "A larger study of food-related IgG confirms the possible new epidemiological approach to non-IgE-mediated reactions and suggests five great food clusters". Clin Transl Allergy. 5 (supp 3). doi:10.1186/2045-7022-5-S3-P39. PMC 4412521.
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