Advisory and Client-Focused

Level 5

Welcome and Introduction

📘SKILLS LAB: What's your goal? 

Your Personal Strategy Questionnaire

Module Quiz

0. Nutritional Therapist – Getting started

Module 1 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Reflect on the health goals that matter most to you

📕UNIT 1: Introduction to Nutritional Therapy

POLL: Which of the following has added sugars? 

Your Knowledge Essentials

POLL: Explore where added sugars may be hiding

🎙️Off The Page Podcast

Module feedback

Before you take your quiz

1. Introduction to Nutritional Therapy

Module 2 Learning Outcomes

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: What is DNA? How does it work?

📕 UNIT 1: Genetics Adaptations to Nutrition

POLL: Your understanding of DNA and the epigenome

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: What's the epigenome?

2. Genetic Adaptations to Nutrition

Module 3 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Are you the result of nature or nurture? 

📕 UNIT 1: Changing your gene expression for better health

POLL: Can DNA expression change over time?

3. Changing your genetic expression for better health

Module 4 Learning Outcomes

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: How can identical twins look so different?

POLL: What kinds of environmental factors can affect your epigenome?

📕 UNIT 1: Switching Genes On and Off

4. Switching genes on and off

Module 5 Learning Outcomes

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: How a mother’s diet shapes the epigenome of her offspring

📕 UNIT 1: How food changes your DNA

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: Epigenetics and the influence of our genes

5. How food changes your DNA

Module 6 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Free Radicals and DNA Damage

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6. Free radicals and DNA damage

Module 7 Learning Outcomes

📘 Skills Lab 1:  Assessing your Antioxidant Capacity

POLL: Share your Antioxidant Capacity Score

Downloadable Client Materials and Session Handouts

7. How to test your antioxidant capacity

Module 8 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Antioxidant Foods for Longevity and Disease Prevention

8. Antioxidant foods for longevity and disease prevention

Module 9 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Nature's Pharmacy: Polyphenols and Phytochemicals

9. Nature's Pharmacy: Polyphenols and phytochemicals

Module 10 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Fibre and human health

10. How fibre makes you healthier

Module 11 Learning Outcomes

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: The Human Microbiome

📕 UNIT 1: Probiotics: Nature's Antibiotics

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: Prebiotics in the Lab

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: How Our Microbes Make Us Who We Are

11. Probiotics: Nature's Antibiotics

Module 12 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Essential Nutrients and Antioxidants A to Z

12. Essential Nutrients and Antioxidants

Module 13 Learning Outcomes

📘 SKILLS LAB: How to assess nutrient deficiency risks

13. How to detect nutritional deficiencies

Module 14 Learning Outcomes

📘SKILLS LAB: How to create a personalised nutritional program

▶️ WATCH AND LEARN: How food affects your brain

📕 UNIT 1: How to structure client consultations: Planning and monitoring nutritional programs

14. How to create a personalised nutritional program

Module 15 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Health benefits of 160 superfoods: A to Z Fact Sheets

15. Health benefits of 160 superfoods (BONUS)

Module 16 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Nutritional Advice for over 40 Health Conditions 

16. Nutritional advice for over 40 health conditions (BONUS)

Module 17 Learning Outcomes

📕 UNIT 1: Dos, don’ts, and must dos as a Nutritional Therapist

📕 UNIT 2: Legal, tax, insurance, and professional considerations

Before you take your Final Exam

Final Exam

17. Professional considerations and FINAL EXAM

Certificate Registration Form

Do you need insurance to practice?

Accessing Your Certificate

18. Final Steps

<p>This 20-unit certification teaches you how to recognise nutrition deficiency risks, advise clients, build personalised nutrition plans, and lays a strong foundation for your future as a nutrition professional! You’ll have the opportunity to familiarise yourself with many of the philosophies and science behind nutrition and learn how to implement your new skills in real client scenarios. </p>

If you realise within 14 days of joining  that this training is not right for you, we can either arrange a refund or provide you with a learner credit (T&C apply), provided you have not completed more than three modules of the course. 

Recognise nutrient deficiency risks and help clients with their personalised nutrition needs


Nutritional Therapy

Maurice Castelijn

What you will learn

Recognise the impact of nutrition on health and gene expression and understand the relationship between free radicals and DNA damage

Analyse antioxidant capacity and put forward nutritional recommendations to increase antioxidant protection

Understand the influence of plant-based foods, polyphenols, phytochemicals, probiotics, and fibre on health promotion and disease prevention

Perform nutritional assessments, detect probable nutrient deficiency risks, and formulate personalised dietary strategies to help correct them

Identify which factors either increase the bioavailability of required nutrients or hinder their absorption and utilisation

Build personalised food plans to help improve health symptoms and put forward nutritional recommendations for common health conditions

Course content

Course Description

If you realise within 14 days of joining that this training is not right for you, we can either arrange a refund or provide you with a learner credit (T&C apply), provided you have not completed more than three modules of the course.

This Course Includes