functional nutrition training

• Understand food as medicine

• The major issues impacting food sustainability today
• Factory farming & GMOs
• Aquaculture, methane & carbon footprints
• How to make more informed food choices
• How to best support the world we live in through your nutrition 

• The most prevalent, functional and all-around healthy approaches to food and eating
• Vegetarian eating models
• Mediterranean eating
• Gluten & Dairy-Free eating
• Paleo, Ketogenic & Ayurvedic eating models
• Healthy eating while pregnant

• Identify common nutritional deficiencies and their nutritional antidotes
• Identify blood sugar imbalances & know how to correct them with food
• A General Healing diet protocol to support the body & ward off diseases like metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance, diabetes, heart disease, fatigue, depression and obesity
• Eliminate toxins

• What inflammation is
• Resolving inflammation with functional medicine
• Leading diseases caused by inflammation
• Signs & causes of chronic inflammation
• Essential Fatty Acid Ratio
• Foods that affect inflammation
• How to implement anti-inflammatory lifestyles and eating protocols

• Why the gut is so important to overall health and well-being
• The five key roles of the gut 
• Leaky Gut Syndrome
• How the food you eat affects your gut
• The Happy Gut Diet
• Detoxification and elimination of waste and toxins

• The important role the thyroid plays in our overall health
• Common thyroid disorders
• Current trends in thyroid treatments
• Kitchen cures for your thyroid
• Medical & nutritional considerations for managing thyroid health issues

• Brain disorders are rising
• Importance of brain health
• Nutritional approaches to brain health
• How balancing hormones can improve brain health
• How reducing inflammation can improve brain health
• The Gut-Brain Connection
• Toxins and brain health
• The role of calmness & community in brain health

• The Endocannabinoid System (ECS)
• Primary sites of activity for the ECS
• Myths, health benefits of CBD & THC
• The different types of cannabinoids
• Endocannabinoid tone & what it’s important
• How to nourish your EDS through diet & lifestyle choices

• How hormones work including adrenal, thyroid & sex hormones
• The critical role hormones play
• How hormones can drastically alter well-being for better or worse
• Which hormones are found in food & which foods that help regulate hormones
• How to detect hormonal imbalances

• The key to avoiding premature aging 
• Inflammaging & the genetic link to aging
• Common signs & symptoms of accelerated aging
• How nutrition plays a vital role in the fight against premature aging
• Digestive health, hormone and lifestyle changes that slow the effects of aging

• The vital role the heart plays in the body & overall well-being
• How the heart function can be enhanced through nutrition
• Heart healthy & unhealthy foods
• Leading-edge heart health studies
• How to implement & sustain a heart-healthy lifestyle
• How to reverse heart disease through nutrition & lifestyle changes

• What autoimmunity is and how autoimmune diseases develop
• The role nutrition plays in autoimmune health
• The role gut health plays in autoimmune health
• How infections and toxins can impact autoimmune health
• Lifestyle changes that improve autoimmune conditions

• The autoimmune-inflammation spectrum
• Autoimmune diseases of the nervous system and digestive system
• Triggers & perpetrators
• Autoimmune disease in women
• Lab work & genetic testing for autoimmune disease
• Managing autoimmune disease via diet
• Advanced healing tools for autoimmune disease

• What supplements are, when and why to use them
• How to pick the perfect supplement
• How to read supplement labels
• Supplements for specific individuals
• Supplements for digestive & brain health
• Supplement safety guidelines & recommendations

• What toxins are and how they make their way into every aspect of life
• The importance of regular detoxification to eliminate health-diminishing toxins
• Optimizing our natural detox systems
• How to safely do a proper detox
• How to maintain a low-toxin lifestyle after detox

• What to do to prevent disease before it occurs
• The Functional Medicine Tree
• The four vital theories to understand when approaching disease prevention
• The field of nutrigenomics and its role in disease prevention approaches
• The specific nutrition & lifestyle protocols to implement for disease prevention

In this module, you will hear from the experiences of experts

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• How emotional & physical health interact
• How to identify foods that help address larger mental health issues
• The gut-brain connection
• How depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, dementia, OCD, insomnia & fatigue can be addressed with nutrition protocols

• What implicit bias is
• The “whole person” approach to well-being
• Race and nutrition
• Social & structural realities of food access
• Social determinants of health & disease impact on communities of color
• How to prioritize lived experience as evidence for health protocols
• The Nutrition Care Process

• Build a nutrition or coaching business
• Know how to add personal elements to your wellness business to stand out
• Shift into a growth & abundance mindset as you build your business
• Market your wellness brand consistently in a way that will drive growth and deepen your impact

• Select your specific audience and niche in wellness
• Add diversified income streams to your wellness business
• Successfully promote your business in a way that gets results
• Scale your business sustainably to increase revenue, avoid burnout and expand your reach and impact

• The vital role sleep plays in every aspect of our health
• How sleep impacts weight loss and age-related diseases
• The daily routines and lifestyle choices that lead to highest quality sleep
• Optimal sleep cycles & routines for specific chronotypes

In this module, Dr. Youn shares all of his secrets to youthful aging from the inside out. The lessons are designed to help you understand the five main causes of aging skin and how to slow the aging process with a healthy lifestyle.

In this module, Dr. Leaf explains why it can be so hard to stick with healthy habits like exercising more or eating more protein, how to identify your best and worst habits, and provides actionable tips to build healthy habits that last a lifetime. You’ll leave the module with a deep understanding of how long it really takes to build lasting habits (hint: it's not just 21 days as many people think) and where to start.

In this module, Darshan Shah, M.D. goes beyond heart health basics and provides insight on why heart disease is on the rise and the latest diagnostics and approaches that will help you be the boss of your own biology.

In this module, Darshan Shah, M.D. explores the rise in cancer diagnoses, particularly in young people. He highlights key risk factors, key genetic factors and the modern screenings that everyone should include in their health journey.