Knowledge-based 

Level 5

Welcome and Introduction

POLL: What is your current knowledge level? 

📕 UNIT 1: Introduction to Diabetes Health

Diabetes Health Abbreviations

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: What's Your Goal?

Complete your Personal Strategy Questionnaire 

POLL: Why did you decide to take this course?

🎙️Off The Page Podcast

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Module Quiz

0. Introduction to Diabetes Health

Module 1 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How many types of diabetes are there?

📕 UNIT 1: The many types of diabetes

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: Where is your client in their diabetes health journey?

POLL: What gives the clearest picture of diabetes health?

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Before you take your quiz

1. Differentiating The Types of Diabetes

Module 2 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Why do individuals struggle with their diabetes?

📕 UNIT 1: Assessing Client diabetes knowledge

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: Are You On Track with Your Diabetes Self-Care?

POLL: What is your DM Self-Management Assessment ™ score?

📕 UNIT 3: Assessing Health Literacy Among Professionals

📘 UNIT 4: Skills Lab™: Are You Confident Navigating Diabetes with Clients?

POLL: Share your professional diabetes readiness

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2. Gauging Diabetes Awareness

Module 3 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How often does prediabetes go unnoticed?

📕 UNIT 1: T1DM: How It Develops and What Happens in The Body

📕 UNIT 2: Understanding Prediabetes for T2DM

📕 UNIT 3: T2DM: Causes, Mechanisms, and Progression

📕 UNIT 4: Understanding Gestational Diabetes

POLL: Where do you feel least confident in diabetes support?

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: Kylie Hanson Kulwicki talks about her life with MODY

3. The Science of Diabetes

Module 4 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How well could you explain carbohydrate metabolism?

📕 UNIT 1: How are Carbohydrates Metabolised?

📕 UNIT 2: The role of Insulin and Other Hormones in Diabetes

4. Glucose Metabolism and Hormone Regulation

Module 5 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Was metabolic syndrome already on your radar?

📕 UNIT 1: Overlapping Factors with Metabolic Syndrome

5. Metabolic Syndome: An Overlapping Condition

Module 6 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Which diabetes test causes the most confusion?

📕 UNIT 1: Diagnostic Tests and Glucose Markers

📕 UNIT 2: Tracking Blood Sugar Patterns

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: Abbott Freestyle Libre 3 Review - A Discrete CGM For Diabetics

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab™: Questions to Ask My Doctor About Diabetes

6. Clinical Testing and Monitoring

Module 7 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What worries people most about diabetes medications?

📕 UNIT 1:  Diabetes Medications

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: How does metformin work? 

POLL: What is your current understanding of food-drug and drug-drug interactions?

📕 UNIT 2: BONUS: Drug-Drug Interactions

📕 UNIT 3: BONUS: Food-Drug Interactions

7. Diabetes Medications Explained

Module 8 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What makes type 1 diabetes hard to manage?

📕 UNIT 1: Medical Management of Type 1 Diabetes

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: Questions to Ask Your Doctor About Type 1 Diabetes

POLL: What is your experience with type 1 planning tools?

📕 UNIT 3: Managing Day to Day Life with T1DM

📘 UNIT 4: Skills Lab™: Living Well with Type 1 Diabetes

8. T1DM Medical Management

Module 9 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How confident are you with carbohydrate counting methods?

📕 UNIT 1: Carbohydrate Counting in T1DM

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: Practice Carb Counting

POLL: Does insulin adjustment go beyond carbs?

📕 UNIT 2: Dietary Fat and Protein Considerations for T1DM

📕 UNIT 3: Key Micronutrients in T1DM care

9. Nutrient Management for T1DM

Module 10 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Insulin Resistance and Glucose Intolerance: Hallmarks of Prediabetes

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: What is insulin resistance? Why does it happen?

POLL: Have risk questionnaires been part of your prediabetes work?

📕 UNIT 2: Dietary and Lifestyle Risk Factors for Prediabetes

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab™: Are You at Risk for Prediabetes or Type 2 Diabetes

10. Insulin Resistance and Prediabetes

Module 11 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Do you know about diabetes medications?

📕 UNIT 1: Medical Management for T2DM

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Questions to Ask Your Doctor about Type 2 Diabetes

POLL: How often does diabetes remission come up in practice?

11. T2DM Medical Management

Module 12 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: How Food Shapes T2DM Risk and Development

POLL: How often do GI and GL shape your T2DM support?

📕 UNIT 2: Glycaemic Index and Glycaemic Load in T2DM

📕 UNIT 3: Dietary Fat and Protein Considerations for Those with T2DM

POLL: Which macronutrient causes the most difficulty in T2DM?

📕 UNIT 4: Micronutrient Considerations for Those with T2DM

12. Nutrient Management for T2DM

Module 13 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Have reproductive concerns come up in diabetes care?

📕 UNIT 1: Women's and Men's Health and Fertility

📕 UNIT 2: How GDM affects mother and baby

📕 UNIT 3: Management of gestational diabetes

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: Gestational Diabetes in Pregnancy: Diagnosis, Treatment, and New Technology

POLL: How well can you explain how gestational diabetes affects the baby?

13. Women's Health and Diabetes

Module 14 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How often do ageing-related diabetes challenges show up?

📕 UNIT 1:  Supporting Clients with Diabetes and Aging

14. Diabetes Across The Lifespan

Module 15 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Do you adapt advice to fit real-life context?

📕 UNIT 1: Cultural and socioeconomic considerations in diabetes care

15. Social and Cultural Influences

Module 16 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Is dietary assessment part of your usual intake process?

📕 UNIT 1: General Dietary Considerations

📕 UNIT 2: Assessing Your Client’s Diet

POLL: How often do food sensitivities come up in discussions?

📕 UNIT 3: Managing food sensitivities

16. Everyday Nutrition for Diabetes

Module 17 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Which diabetes nutrition trends come up most often?

📕 UNIT 1: Plant-Based Diets

📕 UNIT 2: Ketogenic Eating and The Carnivore Diet

📕 UNIT 3: Intermittent Fasting and Glucose Control

POLL: Have you ever questioned the evidence behind a diabetes fad?

📕 UNIT 4: Do Sweeteners Influence Blood Glucose?

📕 UNIT 5: The Supplement Debate in Diabetes Health

17. Nutrition Controversies and Diabetes

Module 18 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Do you have any gut health issues?

📕 UNIT 1: Can we personalise diabetes care with the gut microbiome?

📕 UNIT 2: Why Timing Matters: Chrononutrition in Diabetes

POLL: What is your natural sleep-wake pattern?

18. Gut Health and Chrononutrition

Module 19 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: The role of Inflammation in Diabetes

19. Reducing Inflammation and Oxidative Stress

Module 20 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Which weight indicators do you rely on most?

📕 UNIT 1: Weight Management in Diabetes

📕 UNIT 2: Calculating BMI

20. Supporting Healthy Weight

Module 21 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Which lifestyle challenge shows up most often?

📕 UNIT 1: Physical Activity Science

📕 UNIT 2: Sleep, Stress, and Glycaemic Outcomes

📕 UNIT 3: Smoking, Alcohol, and Toxicology

21. Expanded Lifestyle Approaches

Module 22 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Have you seen serious diabetes complications?

📕 UNIT 1: Understanding DKA and HHS

📕 UNIT 2: Nerve Damage: Risk Reduction and Support

📕 UNIT 3: Heart Health Strategies for Diabetics

22. Critical Events, Nerve Damage, and Heart Risks

Module 23 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How often do kidney or gut complications come up?

📕 UNIT 1: Mitigating Kidney Disease Risk

📕 UNIT 2: Managing Gut Issues 

23. Kidney and Gut Health

Module 24 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How often do emotional or cognitive diabetes complications arise?

📕 UNIT 1: Understanding The Psychological Aspects

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: Do You Suffer From Diabetes Distress?

POLL: Share your diabetes distress score

📕 UNIT 3: Cognitive Burden of Diabetes

24. Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

Module 25 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How often do visible or wound-related complications appear?

📕 UNIT 1: Eye Health and Diabetes

📕 UNIT 2: Wound Skin and Oral Health Complications

25. Eye, Wound, Skin, and Other Complications

Module 26 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Where do clients need the most help with self-management?

📕 UNIT 1: Building a Personalised Self-Management Plan

POLL: Which part of building a self-management plan is most challenging?

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: How Can You Monitor Progress?

26. Building a Personalised Diabetes Plan

Module 27 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Dos, Donts, and Must Dos

Before you take your Final Exam

Final Exam

27. Professional Considerations and FINAL EXAM

Complete your Certificate Registration Form

Accessing Your Certificate

28. Final Steps

This certification gives you a clear understanding of how the body regulates blood glucose, and what happens when that balance is disrupted. You’ll explore the causes, symptoms, risks, and complications of various forms of diabetes, while learning how to reduce the risk of development and support long-term self-management.The focus is on empowering safer decisions between medical appointments, when self-management matters most. You’ll gain practical frameworks to assess knowledge, build confidence, and support behaviour change in real-world contexts.Whether you're a nutrition professional, a medical practitioner, or someone living with diabetes, this course helps you personalise support, reduce risks, and develop realistic, structured self-management plans. It bridges science with everyday practice, giving you the clarity and confidence to guide better outcomes.

Gain a clear understanding of blood glucose regulation, the causes and complications of diabetes, and step-by-step frameworks to help improve quality of life

Diabetes Health

Maurice Castelijn

What you will learn

Identify the 8 core components that underpin an effective diabetes self-management plan

Pinpoint early risk factors, symptoms, and red flags, and recognise when to refer for medical evaluation

Evaluate client knowledge, health literacy, and self-care skills using validated tools and questionnaires

Discover the biological mechanisms behind glucose regulation and what happens when this balance is disrupted in different forms of diabetes

Explore the major types of diabetes mellitus in depth (T1DM, prediabetes, T2DM, GDM), and become familiar with emerging and less common classifications

Discern how nutrition, movement, behaviour, sleep, stress, and medication influence glycaemic control

Explore dietary strategies (e.g. plant-based eating, intermittent fasting, ketogenic dieting) in the context of diabetes, including risks and precautions

Address common complications, including neuropathy, cardiovascular issues, gut problems, and cognitive burden

Gain insight into how medications and supplements can influence glucose regulation, contribute to food-drug interactions, and impact gut health

Apply the Blood Glucose Control Framework™ to support personalised, day-to-day diabetes care

Personalise guidance safely, using structured self-assessments, trackers, and planning tools

Build realistic self-management plans based on individual goals, needs, and levels of competence

Support clients in communicating more confidently and effectively with healthcare professionals and participating in collaborative care

Apply advanced nutrition science in both professional practice and personal health decision-making

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