Advisory and Client-Focused

Level 5

Welcome and Introduction

📕 UNIT 1: Healing The Gut Through Nutrition

📘UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: What's your goal? 

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🎙️Off The Page Podcast

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Module Quiz

0. Advisory Fundamentals

Module 1 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Does eating often leave you feeling uncomfortable?

📘UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: How Comfortable Does Your Gut Feel?

📕 UNIT 2: Following Food From Top to Bottom

POLL: Take a guess at the prevalence of IBS

📕 UNIT 3: Gut Symptoms and Springing a Leak

POLL: How prepared do you feel to apply the 4R framework?

📕 UNIT 4:  Introducing the 4R program

Downloadable Client Materials and Session Handouts

Before you take your quiz

1. Is Your Gut Healthy

Module 2 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Take a guess at the scale of the gut microbiome

📕 UNIT 1: The Trillions of Microbes in Our Gut

▶️ Watch and Learn: Quorum Sensing

POLL: Should diet be tailored to the gut microbiome?

📕 UNIT 2: When the Microbiome is Out of Balance

📕 UNIT 3: What Are Enterotypes?

2. Your Unique Gut

Module 3 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How strong do you think the gut-brain link is?

📕 UNIT 1: Bacteria in Our Gut Are Talking to Our Brain

▶️ Watch and Learn: The Gut-Brain Connection

📕 UNIT 2: Can The Gut Bacteria Contribute to Autism?

POLL: Can nutrition play a role in autism symptom support?

3. Communication Between Gut and Brain

Module 4 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How common do you think lactose intolerance is?

📕 UNIT 1: Nutrigenetics and Personalised Nutrition

▶️ Watch and Learn: What is epigenetics? 

POLL: Is genetic testing part of your health journey?

📕 UNIT 2: Can Our Diet Alter Our Gene Expression?

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab™: What’s in Your Kitchen?

4. Connecting Genes to Food

Module 5 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Reflect on your recent stress load

📕 UNIT 1: Could Your Client’s Stomach Pains be Stress-Related?

POLL: Does stress change the way you eat?

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: What Do You Eat Under Stressful Conditions?

5. Influence of a Stressed Gut

Module 6 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What do you think drives appetite more strongly?

📕 UNIT 1: Gut Hormones: Hungry Messengers

▶️ Watch and Learn: How Do Your Hormones Work? 

POLL: How often do food cravings show up for you?

📕 UNIT 2:  Are Our Cravings Due to Changes in Gut Hormones?

POLL: How often do you eat tryptophan-rich foods?

📕 UNIT 3: Is Our Gut Bacteria Making Us Overeat?

Downloadable Client Material and Session Handout

6. Understanding Hunger Hormones

Module 7 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Are you comfortable estimating client energy needs?

📕 UNIT 1: Is your client at risk for poor gut health due to excess fat?

POLL: Are spicy foods always to blame for reflux?

📕 UNIT 2: Excess Fat: A Risk for Poor Gut Health?

▶️ Watch and Learn: Immune Cells Eating Bacteria (Phagocytosis)

POLL: What do you associate with a diverse gut microbiome?

📕 UNIT 3: Does Dysbiosis Contribute to Obesity?

POLL: Can weight loss help restore gut balance?

📕 UNIT 4: Metabolic Syndrome and The Microbiome

7. Obesity and The Gut

Module 8 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Reflect on your intake of added sugars

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: How “Western” is Your Diet?

POLL: How confident are you with FODMAP basics?

📕 UNIT 2: Sugars in the Western Diet

POLL: Take a guess at recommended dietary fat intake

📕 UNIT 3: Fats in the Western Diet

POLL: Check in with your intake of processed and labelled foods

📕 UNIT 4: Which Food Additives Could Be Harming Your Gut?

8. Identifying and Removing Problem Foods

Module 9 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Can allergies change over time?

📕 UNIT 1: What is an Allergy?

▶️ Watch and Learn: Understanding Food Allergy

POLL: Share if you have a food intolerance or allergy

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: Could You Have a Food Intolerance?

POLL: Do all food reactions require total avoidance?

📕 UNIT 3: How is an Intolerance Different From an Allergy?

9. Identifying Allergies and Intolerances

Module 10 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Are gluten sensitivity and coeliac disease the same thing?

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Could you have a problem with gluten?

POLL: Share if coeliac disease been part of your personal or client experience

📕 UNIT 2: What is Coeliac Disease?

POLL: Does gluten sensitivity equal total gluten avoidance?

📕 UNIT 3: Could It Be Non-Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity?

POLL: Can food group restriction carry risks?

📕 UNIT 4: Gluten Sensitivity or Something Else?

📘 UNIT 5: Skills Lab™:  Are you planning to remove gluten?

POLL: How confident are you in supporting medical referral conversations?

10. Gluten: The Full Story

Module 11 Learning Outcome

POLL: Reflect on your current alcohol consumption habits

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Is Your Alcohol Intake Putting You at Risk?

POLL: How much alcohol do you think it takes to affect the gut?

📕 UNIT 2: Can Alcohol Cause Physical Damage to Our Gut?

POLL: Does everyone process alcohol in the same way?

📕 UNIT 3: The Indirect Effects of Alcohol On The Gut

📘 UNIT 4: Skills Lab™: Tracking and Calculating Alcoholic Units

11. Our Guts on Alcohol

Module 12 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How much influence do medicines have on gut health?

📕 UNIT 1: The impact of antibiotics and NSAIDS

▶️ Watch and Learn: Mechanisms and Classification of Antibiotics 

📕 UNIT 2: Examining Antacids and The Pill

POLL: Where are the boundaries of your role as an advisor?

12. The Truth About Drugs and Digestion

Module 13 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How important is chewing for digestion?

📕 UNIT 1: Where Losses Occur in The Mouth and Stomach

POLL: Check in with your fruit intake 

📕 UNIT 2: Where losses occur in the pancreas and liver

13. Replacing Losses Through The Alimentary Canal

Module 14 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Are fruit sugars the same as sugars in processed foods?

📕 UNIT 1: Replacing Sugars and Processed Food

POLL: What matters more, removing saturated fat or what replaces it?

📕 UNIT 2: Replacing Saturated Fat and Salt

📕 UNIT 3: Replacing Gluten and Lactose

POLL: Can some lactose still fit in a lactose-intolerant diet?

📘 UNIT 4: Skills Lab™: Making Healthy Food Changes

14. Replacing The Excesses

Module 15 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Are You Being Active in Protecting Your Gut?

POLL: How active are you in everyday life?

📕 UNIT 2: Does an Active Life Mean a Protected Gut?

POLL: How close are you to recommended activity levels?

15. Active Days

Module 16 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share your usual sleep duration

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Are You Getting Enough Sleep to Protect Your Gut?

📕 UNIT 2: Restful Nights, Restful Gut

16. Restful Nights

Module 17 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How confident are you with these gut health terms?

📕 UNIT 1: What are Probiotics?

POLL: How far do the effects of prebiotics and probiotics reach?

📕 UNIT 2: How Do Probiotics Work Their Magic?

📕 UNIT 3: Prebiotics: Feeding Your Gut

📕 UNIT 4: Synbiotics and Faecal Microbial Transplantation

POLL: Have you personally tried prebiotics or probiotics?

📕 UNIT 5: Probiotic, Prebiotic, and Fermented Food Guide

17. Pro and Prebiotics: Feeding Your Gut

Module 18 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Are higher vitamin intakes always better?

📕 UNIT 1: Repairing with Vitamins

POLL: Check in with your omega-3 intake habits

📕 UNIT 2: Omega 3 and Zinc to The Rescue

▶️ Watch and Learn: The Inflammasome Signalling Pathway

POLL: How much variety is there in your plant food intake?

📕 UNIT 3: A Trio of Gut Supporters

18. Repair and Maintenance for a Sturdy Gut

Module 19 Learning Outcomes

POLL: What does "plant-based" mean to you?

📕 UNIT 1: Is Plant-Based The Answer?

POLL: Which dietary approaches have you tried?

📕 UNIT 2: Four Popular Diets Uncovered

19. Plant-Based and Popular Diets

Module 20 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Have you personally tried a low-FODMAP approach?

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Is Low FODMAP Right for Me?

POLL: Can low-FODMAP diets carry nutritional risks?

📕 UNIT 2: A low FODMAP Diet for Those with IBS?

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab™: Are you Falling Foul of FODMAPs?

20. What’s The Fuss About FODMAPs

Module 21 Learning Outcomes

POLL: How long can food elimination be safely continued?

📕 UNIT 1: What Are Elimination and Rotation Diets?

POLL: Reflect on your experience with elimination diets

📘 UNIT 2: Skills Lab™: How to Eliminate and Reintroduce Effectively

21. Elimination and Rotation Diets

Module 22 Learning Outcomes

📘 UNIT 1: Skills Lab™: Designing Your Client's Gut Restoration Diet

POLL: How far have you got with your Gut Foods Master List?

📕 UNIT 2: Structuring Client Consultations

POLL: Are you planning to apply the shopping list at home?

22. Planning a Personalised Gut Restoration Diet

Module 23 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Share whether a gut condition ever been part of your health story

📕 UNIT 1: Gut Conditions Manual (Part 1)

📕 UNIT 2: Gut Conditions Manual (Part 2)

📘 UNIT 3: Skills Lab™: Making The Most of Seeing a Gastroenterologist

23. BONUS Common Gut Conditions

Module 24 Learning Outcomes

POLL: Has digestive cancer affected you personally?

📕 UNIT 1: Gastrointestinal Cancer Manual (Part 1)

POLL: Has digestive cancer affected someone close to you?

📕 UNIT 2: Gastrointestinal Cancer Manual (Part 2)

POLL: How confident are you with digestive cancer risk factors?

📕 UNIT 3: Risk Factors for Gastrointestinal Cancers

24. BONUS Reducing Risks for Digestive Cancers

<p>This 79-unit certification will help you to understand the gut, including the bacteria and virus that live in the digestive system, how these organisms interact with other parts of the body, and how you can help your client keep this in balance. You’ll be getting an in depth look at the gut, uncovering what intestinal hyper-permeability really means, and learning how the gut is connected to the human brain. Then we’ll dive into the 4R gut restoration program and explore how you can use this to help your client improve their gut health. We´ll concentrate on nutritional changes, but you´ll also be learning about the importance of sleep, physical activity, and staying calm on the gut microbiome. Plus, we´ll also be exploring how to undertake an elimination diet without increasing risk of nutrient deficiencies.</p>

The science-based certification to understanding the gut including the bacteria and viruses that live in the digestive system, and building a personalised gut restoration programs to reduce unwanted gastrointestinal symptoms

Advanced Gut Restoration Nutritional Advisor™

Advanced Gut Restoration Nutritional Advisor™

Maurice Castelijn

What you will learn

Gain advanced knowledge about the science behind intestinal hyper-permeability (a “leaky gut”), whether it is the cause of a number of gut conditions, and what your client can do to help repair the gut lining.

Understand the impact of food choices, alcohol, medications, physical activity, and stress levels on gut health.

Perform health risk assessments to evaluate levels of gut discomfort, whether certain foods such as high-fat, high-sugar, high-salt, processed, gluten-containing foods may be exacerbating gut symptoms.

Work with medical doctors to help your client reduce symptoms of gut conditions such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Evaluate factors which may be contributing to gut imbalance and dysbiosis, including genetics and hormonal changes.

Understand that our genetic make—up may play a role in our gut health, but that daily choices have a larger influence.

Build a personalised 4-step gut restoration program, considering an individual’s own triggers to remove excesses, replace losses, repopulate the gut, and repair damage.

Build a personalised nutritional program in order to help keep your client’s gut discomfort levels at a minimum and their gut microbiome in balance.

Track your client´s progress over time, including gut discomfort, gut symptoms before and after removing potentially problem foods such as gluten, lactose, alcohol, and those high in fat or sugars.

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