Functional Nutrition Online Course

Functional Nutritionist Certification Training Course - Mastering Functional Nutrition

Benefits of Becoming a FNA Board Certified Functional Nutritionist

Our Functional Nutritionist Certification Training Course will up scale your health practice because it is self-paced and designed to suit your schedule. In just 6 months or less, you can be following your life’s work as a Functional Nutritionist in your own time, from anywhere in the world helping people get healthy once you graduate from our Functional Nutrition online course!

Upscale Your Practice

If you are looking for an in-depth Functional Nutritionist Certification Training Course that dives deep into how Gut Healing,Therapeutic Diets, Functional Nutrition, and Lifestyle; Mind Body and Spirit can have a profound effect on the bodies ability to heal, even chronic illness, then you are in the right place!
FNA’s Functional Nutrition online course is Accredited by AADP American Association of Drugless Practitioners board educational requirements, making any FNA Functional Nutrition graduate eligible to become a Board Certified Nutrition Professional.

Knowledge, Tools, Skills

FNA’s Functional Nutrition online course “Mastering Functional Nutrition” teaches you how to become a Functional Nutritionist and will get you started quickly with the knowledge, tools, marketing, confidence and skills to build a career in this demanding field of Functional Medicine as a Board Certified Functional Nutritionist or Certified Nutrition Consultant (CNC). Renoun Functional Nutritionist, Teresa Rispoli developed this Functional Nutritionist Certification Training Course from over 30 years of clinical experience and education and made it affordable for those that have a desire to help others heal and stop suffering from chronic illness.

Become Knowledgable In

  • A whole-body systems approach to healing
  • Therapeutic  diets & The art and science of dietary supplements
  • Functional Labs & Intrepretation: Gut, Hormones, Neurotransmitters, Nutrigenomic, 
  • Mind-body modalities such as meditation, yoga, breathing techniques, vagus nerve toning
  • Lifestyle coaching  to support mindset and behavior change for lasting results
FNA's Mastering Functional Nutrition Certification Training Course Creates World Class Leaders Because it is The Most Comprehensive Functional Nutritionist Certification Training Program Available That Teaches You The Skills To Be Successful in Today's Market!
Mastering Functional Nutrition is the only Functional Nutrition Online Training that is proud to be pioneering a new generation of Functional Nutritionist. After coaching over 25,000 clients and students from 39 countries in the past 25 years, our graduates are changing the consciousness of the planet and are the primary reason a new emerging health care model is empowering patients to be involved in their own journey to re-gaining their health.

Our Functional Nutrition Online Training curriculum is based on cutting edge, intuitive listening, habit change and healthy lifestyle design, understanding of how the body works as a whole and the web-like interconnections with-in the organ systems. We believe in testing not guessing. Functional specialty laboratory tests are utilized along with Functional assessments, and learning to ask the right questions.

Graduates of our Functional Nutritionist Academy are some of the most successful healthcare leaders in the world.

Why? There are five primary reasons:

Innovation. You can expect a master level education in a short amount of time from our Functional Nutrition Online Training that’s redefining what it means to be a functional nutritionist by connecting all the dots.

Real life results. You’ll know how to create change for yourself and your clients. You’ll also have everything you need to launch a business that can make you $5,000 – $20,000 a month or more with flexible hours.

Doing What You Love. Learning about what you are passionate in is worth doing, don’t you agree? When you’re having fun doing what you love, you feel gratitude and opportunities will open up to you. Imagine in only 6 months after registering for our Functional Nutritionist Certification Training Course, you will have the clarity, confidence and skill set to make a great living changing lives and have more freedom doing what you love.

What’s Different About our Course. We teach you how to ask the right questions to get to the root of the illness, not just treat the symptom. When pills and protocols don’t work you need to have this skill!

Marketing. Most schools don’t teach you how to market your practice. But our Functional Nutrition online course goes into great detail about on how to target your ideal client avatar. You will learn digital marketing that will fill your practice quickly.

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Become a Board Certified Functional Nutritionist (CFN) in less than 6 months at your own pace with our Functional Nutrition online training

Lesson 1 Heal Your Gut -The Gateway to Solving Chronic Health Condition

Understanding the Microbiome. How the gut is the seat of many chronic health conditions and how to reverse them with natural solutions: SIBO, Leaky Gut, Allergies, Autoimmune Disease.

Bonus: Proper Detoxification implementation and supplementation and importance in health building and reducing chronic symptoms.
Bonus: Understanding Leaky Gut’s role in creating chronic illness, and How to heal Leaky Gut Syndrome.
Bonus: Autoimmune Triggers and reversing autoimmune disease.

Lesson 2 Evaluation Questions, Assessments, Laboratory Tests & Interpretation relating to the Gut

– Learn how to get to the root of chronic illness through assessments, targeted question and functional laboratory specialty tests relating to the gut.
– Understand the foundation of Functional Nutrition for Building Gut Health.
– You will be given Done-For-You Protocols for the trickiest sign’s, symptoms and conditions, detailing Teresa’s clinical pearls– relating to the Gut.
– You will get tools to help you uncover the triggers leading to root causes of chronic health conditions.

Bonus: Hepatic Detoxification Pathways & Nutrients necessary to complete that very important process.
Bonus: Key organs of detoxification and their role in eliminating chronic health condition.

Lesson 3 Food as Medicine –Therapeutic Diets

FODMAPS, Elimination Diets, Candida, Leaky Gut Diet, SIBO, SCD Diet, Anti-inflammatory, Arthritic, Balancing the Autonomic Nervous System, etc.

Bonus: Mind Diet – reversing Alzheimer’s and neuro-inflammation that contributes to ADD, ADHD, Autism, anxiety and depression.
Bonus: Autoimmune Paleo Diet
Bonus Microbiome Diversity Diet
Bonus: How to make fermented vegetables
Bonus: How to make healing bone broth

Lesson 4 Learn about your Gut Bug Fingerprint, Your Gut Type based on ancient Oriental 5 Element

Bonus The Six Hidden Weight Gain Factors
Bonus: How to defeat Biofilms
Bonus:How Firmicuties vs Bacteriodies bacteria influence metabolisms and fat storage

Lesson 5 Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome Solutions

Learn Four key adrenal stress factors and how they impact your body, Four stages of Adrenal Fatigue, symptoms associated with each stage of Adrenal Fatigue, adrenals affect on multiple body systems, hormones controlled by the adrenal glands, diseases that develop due to adrenal fatigue syndrome, functional testing for adrenal fatigue.

Bonus: The four faces of Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome
Bonus: Core adrenal support nutrients
Bonus: How the adrenals are connected to almost every organ and system in your body and how they can change your body’s entire biochemistry.
Bonus: Four Body Types by Stage

Lesson 6 Nutritional Impact of Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome

You will learn which essential nutrients are required for each stage to heal properly, get handout treatment protocols for each stage of Adrenal Fatigue Syndrome including primary vitamins, minerals, herbs, diet, lifestyle, and exercise required to heal each stage.

Bonus: The top 7 Adaptogenic herbs that lower cortisol.
Bonus: Adrenal Fatigue Questionnaire.
Bonus: Genetic polymorphisms that affect the adrenals to prevent gene expression of inherited diseases.
Bonus: The Four Body Types of Adrenal Fatigue

Lesson 7 Balancing Thyroid & Endocrine Hormones Naturally

Bonus: Learn the 7 Hypothyroid Patterns & how to resolve them naturally.
Bonus:Understanding Thyroid Markers (Lab tests)
Bonus: Know the Leaky Gut, Adrenal, Thyroid Connection
Bonus: How Hormone Pills, Creams, and Lotions Rob Your Thyroid Health.
Bonus: Brain Chemistry and Thyroid Function – Neuro-Endocrine Support.

Lesson 8 Functional Diagnostic Specialty Lab Tests, Interpretation

Done-for-you protocols for the most difficult cases; Autoimmune, SIBO, Candida, Dysbiosis/gut disorders, Allergies, Weight-Loss

Lesson 9 Marketing – How to get clients in a busy digital world and keep them as loyal clients

You’ll be taught how to market on social media and set up automated email sequences that attract your ideal client because they will know, like and trust you, so they pay, stay and refer you!

Lesson 10 How to assimilate your nutritional education into your local area

Become a center of influence for your community and learn how to leverage these relationships to build a healthy commjunity.

Lesson 11 – Advanced Brain Health Master Class

– Learn Natural Solutions to Reverse Alzheimer’s & Neurodegeneration – A step-by-step approach.
– Learn The Top Drivers of a Sick Brain: Alzheimer’s, Dementia, Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, etc.
– Learn Top Functional Lab Tests & Questionnaire’s to to help determine the root cause
– Case Studies with improvements
– Applying Natural solutions for a healthy brain & body

Lesson 12 – Understanding Your Genetics Code to Prevent Expression of Inherited Diseases

Understanding your Genetics gives you answers and solutions to why your brain or body is not in balance, why you don’t do well on certain medicines, foods or nutrients.

– Learn(epigenetics) how to influence your Gene expression.
– Learn Nutritional Genomics & how to turn your genes towards good health.
– Learn about mutated genes like MTHFR & how they affect your health.
– Learn about AI powered DNA Genetic Testing and with this knowledge influence the odds, or risks of developing a specific health problem. 
– Know that the etiology (cause) of many illnesses can be multi-factorial; that is, illness can occur as a result of various factors, including both inherited and acquired genetic variants, diet, lifestyle choices and age.

The knowledge you will therefore gain from this lecture can guide you in the process of developing a more evidence-based approach to prevention!

Lesson 13 – Heal Autoimmune Disease with Natural Solutions

There are over 100 different autoimmune diseases affecting many organs including type 1 diabetes, celiac disease and psoriasis. These occur when the immune system mistakenly attacks parts of the human body. Unfortunately, 23.5 million Americans are currently affected.

– Learn strategies functional medicine doctors use to battle autoimmune diseases.
– Learn about the Autoimmune Matrix. 
– Learn what top nutrients support the immune system. 
– Learn what top nutrients support the immune system.
– Learn about the anti-inflammatory autoimmune diet.

Lesson 14 – Advanced Therapeutic Diets

What if you are eating healthy but still having reactions to certain foods? You’ve tried elimination diets, exhausted lab tests for food allergies and sensitivities but still have weird symptoms? Then this lesson will help shine a light on what is going on inside.

We are talking about the difficult cases here. Pulmonary disease, bone & joint disease, Metabolic Disorders, cardiovascular disease, Autoimmune Disease, Cancer, and Neurological Diseases that affect our brain, cause Alzheimer’s, Autism, ADHD. The problem is there are food compounds and chemicals in certain food groups that also cause inflammation.

– Learn about Histamine Intolerance and how a Low Histamine Diet can relieve hives, migraine headaches and more.
– Learn about A Low Phenol diet and how food additives & artificial colors cause weird symptoms.
– Learn how a low Salicylate diet can reverse hyperactivity, aggression and more. 
– Learn how a Low Oxalate diet can remove sharp stabbing pain and more.

Lesson 15 – Advanced Functional Lab Testing

Imagine how long someone could suffer when they don’t know what the problem is, especially with gut issues. That is why I felt it necessary to provide you with some of the more advanced and cutting edge “NEW” Functional Laboratory Tests and cutting-edge devices. I’ll be discussing a number of different gut tests and why you might choose one over the other.

– Learn about a portable device, you can use multiple times, that you can use on the go or anywhere for that matter, after every meal to determine if a particular food is disrupting your body. It can be used for SIBO, IBS, food allergies, sensitivities or food intolerances.
– Learn about Viome a DNA test: to discover precise food and supplements you need to restore your microbiome health, address root causes, not symptoms, where your body needs nutritional support based on an analysis of your gut microbiome, oral microbiome, and cell, recommendations and custom-formulated supplements are tailored to your test results, You get nutrition recommendations to optimize your digestion, strengthen gut lining, boost richness & microbiome diversity.
– Learn the differences in 4 Top Gut Stool tests and why to choose one over the other: GI 360, GI Maps, GI Effects, Gut Zoomer.
– Learn about Great Plains (Now Mosaic Labs) OAT test and Mycobacteria(mold Exposure), Glyphosate.
– Learn two top Brain tests: Neural Zoomer and Alzheimer’s 50 for prevention.
 – Learn about Genova’s NutriEval for Oxidative stress, Mitochondrial dysfunction, Toxic Exposure, Methylation, Deficient Nutrients, Minerals, EFA’s, GI Support & Amino Acids.
– Learn about blood tests that can be done at home with a finger prick.

Lesson 16 - Chronic Gut Inflammation – Causes, Functional Lab Tests, Support Strategies

Chronic Gut inflammation is at the root of practically all known chronic illnesses.

– Learn how inflammatory cytokines cause muscle pain, weakness, and can manifest as carpal tunnel syndrome.
– How inflammation causes autoimmune which can reduce total thyroid receptor count & hormone function.
– How chronic gut inflammation compromises the liver & kidneys, resulting in skin rashes, eczema acne, wrinkles.
– How chronic gut inflammation damages the intestinal lining resulting in Leaky Gut, GERD, Crohn’s & Celiac.
– Learn the lab markers that determine, Leaky Gut, Candida, Inflammation, and so much more.
– Why you must understand a total toxic burden when beginning a gut protocol and proper liver detoxification.
– Understand the ideal timeline for healing and what you must take into consideration.

Lesson 17 - SIBO Causes, Functional Lab testing, Support Strategies Master Class

– Learn what causes SIBO.
– Learn the three types of SIBO and identifying factors or symptoms that differentiate them.
– Learn how each type of SIBO affects the body differently and what damage is caused.
– Learn when to use antibiotics or natural remedies to heal SIBO.
– Learn healing strategies, including which diet is best for each type.
– Learn which lab test is the most accurate in detecting SIBO and why other lab tests might need to be ordered.

Lesson 18 - Vagus Nerve Reset Master Class

– Learn how the Vagus Nerve may be a hidden factor in chronic illness that goes undetected by most MD’s.
– Learn why the vagus nerve can affect the entire body causing multiple disorders and affecting multiple systems.
– What are the signs of Vagus Nerve Dysfunction.
– Learn what other hidden factors can impact the Vagus Nerve.
– Learn how to heal the Vagus nerve and benefits of Vagus nerve stimulation.

Lesson 19 - Mold Toxicity Recovery Guide Master Class

– Why mold toxicity may be an hidden factor in chronic health issues with multiple symptoms and why they can differ from person to person and show up long after initial exposure.
– Learn the signs of toxic mold exposure.
– How this recovery guide will help you prioritize steps of care, identifying if you have a toxic mold problem and what tests and natural remedies are available for the building and the body.
– Learn why you cannot stay in a mold infested building, what steps you must take to remediate the building.
– Why you cannot take certain things with you from a mold infected building.
– Learn what elements of mold make you sick.
– Learn natural ways to get rid of mold and what shouldn’t be used on certain surfaces to treat mold.
– Learn about mold inspection and mold damage assessment, containment, sanitation, and remediation.
– Learn what errors can happen with improper remediation.
– Why detoxification is important and how to detoxify properly.
– How mold can cause CELL DANGER RESPONSE, Brain Fog, Digestive and gut complaints, rashes, multiple food sensitivities, bloating,  how to test for these and natural support remedies.

Lesson 20 - Mast Cell Activation Syndrome Master Class

– Why it is easy to confuse Mast Cell Activation and Histamine Intolerance, what the differences are.
– What Mast Cell Activation Syndrome is and how it can affect multiple body systems.
– What the top Mast Cell Triggers are.
– What the real underlying root problem are with Mast Cell Activation and steps of care.
– What’s envolved with Stabilization of Mast Cell Activation and reboot of multiple systems.
– What is required for rebuilding.
– What lab tests can be helpful.
– Other areas to look at with hypersensitive individuals.
– Steps of care for healing with natural remedies.

Lesson 21 - Coaching Habit, Diet, Lifestyle Changes

– Learn what it means to be a Functional Nutrition Health Coach.
– What your responsibility is to your client.
– Steps to awaken your client’s motivation by offering support and guiding them to achieve what they want.
– This coaching guide supports your client and you by learning key questions that are specific to where they are right now and where they would like to be on their Health & Life journey.
– Learn how to give positive feedback, deal with stress and negative emotions.
– Learn about the tools that make their transformation attainable and sustainable for life no matter the situation.

In Addition:

– 1:1 Support for 1 full year either through text, phone, virtual zoom call or email with Dr. Rispoli
– 90-minute Power Hour Q&A session with acclaimed functional nutritionist, Teresa Rispoli, ND, DCN, LAC.
– Connect with your colleagues through a private Facebook community so you can also learn from their experiences and questions.
– Done-For-You Protocols for the trickiest conditions, detailing Teresa’s clinical pearls.
Brandable questionnaires, intake forms, consent forms, and PDF’s, for ease of understanding. 
– Quizzes to help you integrate the materials and test your knowledge.
– Course Transcripts to reference each video lesson.
– Key take-aways to keep you on tract with what’s important for each lesson.
– Lifetime materials access so you can return and review the Mastering Functional Nutrition course in the future

Why Choose Our Functional Nutritionist Certification Training Course?

100% online Functional Nutritionist certification training. Learn at your own pace, without pressure. Get the skills, tools and confidence to start your own wellness practice.

Upon completion graduates receive their Certification in Functional Nutrition(CFN). In less than 6 months become a Board Certified Functional Nutritionist.

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