Advisory and Client-Focused

Level 5

Welcome and Introduction

📕UNIT 1: Advanced fertility nutrition introduction

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: What's your goal?

Complete your Personal Strategy Questionnaire

🎙️Off The Page Podcast

Module feedback

Module Quiz

0. Advisory Fundamentals

Module 1 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How well do you know your usual cycle pattern?

📕UNIT 1: Working with fertility nutrition clients

POLL: How early do you assess a client’s current diet?

📕UNIT 2: Assessing your client’s cycle length

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab: How fertility-friendly is your diet

POLL: How would you describe your current diet quality?

📕UNIT 4: Assessing your client’s diet

Downloadable Client Materials and Session Handouts

Before you take your quiz

1. Working With Fertility Clients

Module 2 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share whether you track your likely ovulation timing

📕UNIT 1: Introducing the uterus and ovaries

POLL: How long is the egg viable after ovulation?

📕UNIT 2: Ovulation: Making and releasing an egg

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: Female fertility animation

2. Female Fertility 101

Module 3 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Is fertilisation simply a race to the egg?

 📕UNIT 1: Conception – the union of egg and sperm

📕UNIT 2: Implantation – embedding in the endometrium

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: Implantation of the blastocyst

POLL: When pregnancy testing is most accurate?

📕UNIT 3: Testing for pregnancy

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: How do pregnancy tests work?

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: General Embryology - Detailed Animation On Second Week Of Development

3. Achieving Successful Conception

Module 4 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Where is ovulation within the fertile window?

📕UNIT 1: Why track the 4 indicators of fertility

POLL: How reliable is cycle length on its own?

📕UNIT 2: Tracking cycle length

POLL: Have you used temperature tracking to support fertility awareness?

📕UNIT 3: Tracking basal temperature

POLL: Share whether you have noticed cervical mucus changes across the cycle?

📕UNIT 4: Tracking cervical secretions

POLL: What is your experience with ovulation testing kits?

📕UNIT 5: Tracking the LH surge

Downloadable Client Material and Session Handout

4. Tracking Fertile Windows

Module 5 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What is the realistic aim of fertility tracking support?

📕UNIT 1: Interpreting fertility data

POLL: Take a guess on how to know the length of a menstraul cycle is.

📕UNIT 2: Identifying the fertile window step-by-step

POLL: How would you approach fertility tracking with an irregular cycle?

📕UNIT 3: Predicting the next fertile window

5. Estimating Your Client´s Next Fertile Window

Module 6 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What matters more, timing or frequency?

📕UNIT 1: Estimating time to conception

6. “I Want To Get Pregnant Now”

Module 7 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What age do you associate with the end of fertility for most women?

📕UNIT 1: What speeds up reproductive ageing

POLL: How fertility- supportive is your kitchen?

📕UNIT 2: Antioxidants – Slowing reproductive ageing

POLL: Which fertility-supportive foods show up regularly in your diet?

📕UNIT 3: Protecting the mitochondria

7. Slowing Down Accelerated Ageing

Module 8 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Do you use dry-heat cooking methods?

📕UNIT 1: AGEs increasing inflammation

POLL: Does your body react to gluten and/or dairy?

📕UNIT 2: Trans fats gluten and lactose

POLL: Share your stress levels

📕UNIT 3: Stressed while trying to conceive

8. Reducing Harmful Inflammation

Module 9 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How regular are your cycles?

📕UNIT 1: Hormones in the menstrual cycle

POLL: How helpful do you find ovulation test kits?

📕UNIT 2: Monitoring hormone levels for ovulation

POLL: Can everyday chemical exposures affect fertility?

📕UNIT 3: Minimising endocrine disruptors

POLL: Share your high-glycaemic foods consumption

📕UNIT 4: Balancing hormones through nutrition

9. Hormonal Imbalances

Module 10 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Do you think your environment poses a fertility risk?

📕UNIT 1: Pesticides and everyday toxins

POLL: Are workplace toxins on your radar?

📕UNIT 2: Occupational hazards

POLL: How common do you think HPV really is?

📕UNIT 3: Living toxins

10. Mitigating Environmental Assault

Module 11 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share your current BMI range

📕UNIT 1: Whats an ideal preconception weight

📕UNIT 2: Extra fat extra hard to get pregnant

POLL: Share your history with low-calorie dieting?

📕UNIT 3: Eating enough and eating right

11. Resolving Excess or Low Body Weight

Module 12 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Can you distinguish genetics from epigenetics?

📕UNIT 1: The epigenetics of fertility nutrition

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: What is epigenetics?

POLL: How often do probiotic foods feature in your diet?

📕UNIT 2: Can microbes lower fertility odds

12. Lessening Unwanted Epigenetic and Microbiomic Risks

Module 13 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What is the best next step when a client asks something unfamiliar?

📘UNIT 1: Skills Lab: Designing your client's personalised nutrition plan

POLL: Is more information always better in the first session?

📕UNIT 2: Structuring your client consultations

POLL: What can progress tracking really support?

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab: How can you monitor your client´s progress

📘 UNIT 4: Skills Lab: Fertility-Friendly Food Swaps

13. Planning A Personalised Fertility Diet

Module 14 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What role does male fertility play in conception difficulties?

📕UNIT 1: The 3 characteristics of good sperm

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab: Preparing for a semen analysis

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: Visualising Sperm Motility

POLL: Does male fertility stay unchanged with age?

📕UNIT 3: Ageing, inflammation, and hormone imbalance

POLL: Do you consider reproductive heat exposures part of your habits?

📕UNIT 4: Toxicity, body weight, epigenetics and microbiomics

POLL: Can common foods influence sperm quality?

📕UNIT 5: Nutritional influences on male fertility

14. Male Fertility 101

Module 15 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Are supplements part of your daily health routine?

📕UNIT 1: Common supplements for boosting fertility odds

15. Supplementing a Fertility Diet

Module 16 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What is your current knowledge of common reproductive conditions?

📕UNIT 1: Top 5 conditions which impact female fertility

📘 UNIT 2: SKILLS LAB: Visiting a gynaecologist

16. Health Conditions Affecting Odds

Module 17 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share your experience with IVF or related fertility treatments?

📕UNIT 1: Fundamentals of assisted conception

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: How in vitro fertilization (IVF) works

📕UNIT 2: In vivo and in vitro technologies

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: IVF Techniques 

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab: Is an assisted reproductive technology right for me

17. Supporting My Client Through IVF

Module 18 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How well do you know the timeline of foetal development?

📕UNIT 1: Supporting the zygote

POLL: How common do you think postpartum depression is?

📕UNIT 2: Preparing for pregnancy and parenthood

📘 UNIT 3: SKILLS LAB: Am I ready to be a parent

18. The First Stage of Pregnancy

Module 19 Learning Outcomes

📕UNIT 1: Dos-dont’s-and must-dos

📕UNIT 2: Professional-legal-insurance-and-tax-considerations

Downloadable Client Materials

Final Exam

19. Setting Up Your Fertility Nutrition Practice and FINAL EXAM

Complete your Certificate Registration Form

Do you need insurance to practice?

Accessing Your Certificate

Final Steps

<p>This 58-unit certification will help you to understand how to support woman, and their partner, in boosting fertility odds. You’ll uncover the science behind the menstrual cycle and the changes that women go through each month which prepare their bodies to have a baby. Then, we’ll dive into tracking and analysing your client’s cycles in order to help her to understand the most optimal time (her fertile window) when she is more likely to conceive. Plus, we’ll be looking at 6 Fertility Nutrition Principles; which factors may be reducing odds of conception and which may support it. Not only will we look at each of these 6 principles and their role in female fertility, but we’ll also briefly examine how they may impact male fertility as well!</p>

The science-based certification to understanding the science behind ovulation, spermatogenesis, and conception, so that you can support a woman, and her partner in improving fertility odds through nutrition and lifestyle changes.

Advanced Fertility Nutritional Advisor™

Maurice Castelijn

What you will learn

Discover the science of how reproductive organs work and understand the importance for this in helping your client conceive

Assist your client in tracking her menstrual cycle length, body temperature, cervical mucus, and luteinising hormone surge

Analyse your client´s menstrual cycle data in order to estimate her fertile window and her day of ovulation for her following menstrual cycle

Estimate your client´s time to conception based on how often and when she is able to have sexual intercourse

Identify factors which may lower fertility odds such as a poor diet, poor sleep, stress, and harmful chemicals

Perform health risk assessments and symptoms of common medical conditions which would need to be referred to a medical doctor

Understand how the foods we eat impact our fertility hormones and reproductive cycles – and how your client can use this knowledge to change her nutrition and improve fertility odds

Gain advanced knowledge on conditions which may reduce your client´s chances of having a child including endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, premature ovarian failure, and more

Understand the fundamentals of assisted reproductive techniques such as in vitro fertilisation, intrauterine insemination, and intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Develop a deeper understanding of the importance of male fertility and how to help boost his fertility odds

Course content

Course Description

This Course Includes