3 OCT

Impact Stage

In this session, Dr. Panzner reveals how genetics don't just shape mental health and neurodivergence, but expose an entire hidden layer of biology that most people never see. For highly sensitive individuals, the "healthy" foods, supplements, and lifestyle habits held up as universally good can interact with their unique wiring in ways that undermine the very outcomes they're chasing. It's a world of invisible interactions that standard advice not only misses, but often makes worse.

A highly sensitive person himself, Dr. Panzner long assumed these reactions were his alone, until his work with hundreds of sensitive individuals revealed the same hidden patterns playing out in countless others. Drawing on both his own genetics and the lived experience of those he's worked with, he connects the dots between the molecular and the felt, offering a framework that finally explains what so many sensitive people have sensed but never had language for. His work sits at the intersection of genetics, pharmacology, mental health, and supplement science, and reaches a growing global audience through his content and education platforms.

This is a talk about seeing what's been hidden in plain sight, and about what becomes possible once you understand the biology working beneath the surface.

In this session, Dr. Panzner pulls back the label on what supplements actually do once they're inside you. Every compound acts on far more than the one benefit printed on the bottle, and while the thing you bought it for may be working, something else it's doing can be quietly working against you. Stack several of these together, layer in your genetics and the medications you're already taking, and you get a web of interactions that decides whether that "healthy" stack helps you, does nothing, or slowly backfires. It's the part of the equation that flashy marketing and the TikTok-shop supplement world never mention.

Trained as a pharmacologist, Dr. Panzner spent years watching people build stacks on the same logic they'd use for a grocery list, until his work with over a thousand clients revealed how often the ingredients, the genetics, and the prescriptions were pulling in opposite directions. Drawing on pharmacology, genetic data, and the patterns he's seen play out in real people, he offers a framework for evaluating a stack the way a drug would be evaluated: by its full mechanism, in the context of the specific person taking it. His work sits at the intersection of genetics, pharmacology, mental health, and supplement science, and reaches a growing global audience through his content and education platforms.

This is a talk about the difference between a supplement that sounds right and one that's right for you, and about what changes once you stop taking labels at their word.