In this two-hour module, we’ll do a deep dive into what functional nutrition is, and how we use it to achieve better mental health.

We’ll begin with the F in FIGS - food! You’ll learn how to assess whether someone’s diet contains the foods they need to make the chemicals to feel good.

Systemic inflammation is a root cause of many mental health symptoms. In this module, we’ll seek to understand why inflammation happens, and how we can break the feedback loop to feel better.

You already know that the gut influences the brain, but do you know what to do about it? Learn to teach the gut to send messages of safety and support to the rest of the body using bottom-up nutrition approaches.

Did you know that 75-90% of doctors visits are caused by the wear and tear on the body caused by stress? In this module, we’ll take a deep dive into stress hormones, and discuss how we can modulate them with nutrition to improve chronic stress response.

In this module, we’ll discuss nutrition both for acute and chronic trauma, and pay special attention to creating interventions that are accessible during times of intense stress.

The vagus is a nerve that serves as communication from the gut to the brain. It also is highly involved in the parasympathetic rest and digest response. We can intentionally seek to stimulate rest and digest messaging with supplementation and food.

If your client isn’t sleeping, their mental health will suffer. It is really that simple. What isn’t simple is how you support people to achieving better sleep with nutrition, which is why we’ll do a deep dive into all the nutritional challenges that may impact sleep and what to do about them.

In this four-hour module, you’ll discover how to interpret both conventional tests (CBC, CMP, lipid panels) as well as functional tests (comprehensive stool, organic acids, cortisol, thyroid, and reproductive hormones so you can make better recommendations for your clients.

We’ll provide supplement protocols specific to the tests you’ve learned about in the above module.

We’ve included supplement protocols for depression, anxiety, ADHD, and trauma.

This module is a deep dive into making change happen at the dinner table. We’ll discuss not only what to eat, but how to get people who don’t have a lot of “spoons” to make positive changes with food.

We’ve included recipe packs that you can download and provide to your clients. These packs are created intentionally to support different mental health nutrition approaches and include: High Omega-3 Recipes; Anxiety-Relieving Recipes with Magnesium; Increasing Turmeric; Anti-Inflammatory Recipes; Adding Color to Your Diet; Low FODMAP recipes; High Protein Foods; Snacks, Breakfasts, Lunches, and Dinners; Plant-Based Meals, and more!