Dr. Stephen Michael Nenninger

Dr. Stephen Michael Nenninger, NMD, is a licensed naturopathic physician whose three decades of continuous clinical practice across three U.S. states have been dedicated to the deeper intelligence of the human body. Having maintained full practices and guided thousands of patients internationally, he has come to regard helminthic therapy not merely as a treatment, but as a living expression of our ancient co-evolutionary relationship with the natural world.

After years of successful naturopathic work, a profound personal crisis redirected his path. When his seventeen-year-old son was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis — a rare and life-threatening autoimmune condition of the liver — every conventional and natural approach proved insufficient. Only the carefully guided introduction of therapeutic hookworms restored balance, normalizing laboratory markers within three months. That turning point revealed a regenerative pathway he had not previously encountered: that certain helminths can act as sophisticated regulators of immune intelligence.

For the past decade Dr. Nenninger has devoted his practice entirely to the refinement and clinical application of this work, developing what is regarded as one of the largest dedicated helminthic practices in the world. At Elevate he will share the lived insights, practical experience, and deeper understanding that arise when we remember the symbiotic relationships that once shaped human health — and that still hold the potential to restore it.