Professional Practitioner Qualification:
Diploma In Nutrition & Culinary Medicine.
The ONLY Qualification That Teaches The Science Of Nutrition And Then Takes It Into The Kitchen To Create Meals That Heal.
This Is Where Food DOES Become Medicine. Culinary Medicine!
Are You Ready To Build A Career That Transforms Your Life, As You Transform The Lives Of Others?
Do you want to help others transform their health and move towards a healthier more vibrant life, by changing the food that is on their plate? Do you have a love for nutrition and want to use this to build a beautiful and rewarding career?
We teach you how to use food and dietary changes as medicine. As a powerful therapy that can help people take back control of their health.
We then take you by the hand and help you turn this knowledge into a rewarding scalable business that can transform your life as you transform the lives of others.
"The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition." — Thomas Edison
Studying at the International School of Nutritional Medicine gives you an intense deep dive into the evidence based application of nutrition as a therapeutic tool. A healthcare modality in its own right.
Does Any Of This Sound Familiar?
You have always had a passion for nutrition and you know just how powerful and transformative it can be, and how much it can turn our health around, but…...
As much as you would love to, you’re not sure how to turn that passion into an actual career where you can help people every day, and build a healthy profitable business or rewarding career. Where do you even start?
There are so many programmes to choose from and so much mixed messaging around nutrition, that it is hard to know which way to turn.
Or, maybe you are a practitioner of other therapies, a health coach, or a personal trainer, and you know full well that a better deeper knowledge of diet and nutrition will help you take your clients results and health transformations to the next level, and have a huge impact upon your business’ bottom line too. But you don't know the best route to go.
If any of that sounds like you then it may seem like you are stuck, just staying where you are not knowing which way to turn or what move to make.
That is exactly why we created the 'Diploma in Nutrition & Culinary Medicine'. We wanted to offer an unbiased, agenda-free educational experience. Forget diet fads and half-baked theories—this program is built on evidence, practicality, and engaging content that will challenge you and push you to be your best. With the support of our world-class team of guest lecturers, we navigate you through the intricacies of nutrition & its use in health care, equipping you with the knowledge and skills to excel in this field and achieve your dream career.
Could YOU Be Our Next Success Story?
The 'Diploma in Nutrition & Culinary Medicine' is for you if:
- You are actively looking to pursue a career in nutrition, and want an extremely high level, but flexible programme of study to take you there.
- You are a personal trainer or fitness professional that wants to take their nutrition knowledge stratospheric to create true lasting health change for their clients.
- You are a clinician or practitioner of other therapies and want to add nutrition to your clinical armoury. (note, we have trained over 100 NHS Doctors so far).
- You want to understand the science of nutrition, but also how to translate that into what happens in the kitchen so you can apply this for your clients, but also in your own life too.
- You are NOT looking for a quick course or an easy fix - this would absolutely be the wrong place!
Our Internationally Accredited 'Diploma in Nutrition & Culinary Medicine' gives you all the practical and academic skills you need to truly master the subject and build an incredible rewarding career.
Blending cutting-edge science with practical application. Equip yourself with all the tools to truly lead in the nutrition & health field.
After Completing The 'Diploma In Nutrition & Culinary Medicine' You Will Be Able To:
- Clearly and masterfully understand the role that food and diet plays in both the progression and management of disease and how to use this deep understanding to create meal plans for clients to specifically target and support their healthcare needs.
- Have the skills to help people from all stages of life to incorporate better eating patterns into their day to day life to support their nutritional needs and support their ongoing health.
- Know how to conduct a high standard of independent research and operate from a solid evidence base.
- Have the skills necessary to turn this knowledge into an exciting, rewarding, profitable, and multifaceted business, with ongoing support from us to get you there.
- Work in a vast number of different environments including - gyms & fitness centres, healthcare practices alongside doctors, dieticians, nutritional therapists and other professionals. You can create community based businesses, online programmes, enter the media, write books or even, as many of our graduates have, go on to do a BSc or MSc in nutrition or nutritional medicine. WE WILL GUIDE YOU THROUGH EVERYTHING!
Meet Some Of Your Teachers
Both our full time and guest teaching faculty is made up World leading clinical practitioners, Dr's, Surgeons, Academics, Researchers, and Culinary Masters
Dale Pinnock
Course Founder & Principal
Dr Alan Desmond
Consultant Gastroenterologist
Dr Alex Richardson
Global Specialist on Nutrition & Brain Health
Dr Gemma Newman
Family Physician
Christine Bailey
Autoimmune & Allergy Specialist
Ben Winthrop
Student Liaison & Lecturer
Course Outline:
Take a look at each of the core modules that are covered in the Diploma
MODULE 1
Vitamins, Minerals, Antioxidants and Phytochemicals
The diploma programme starts with a detailed yet broad overview of the true dietary sparks of life. The micronutrients. These are the vitamins, minerals and trace elements. We call them the sparks of life as they are the true biochemical facilitators. This means that, in our body they either make something happen, or they make something that then makes something happen. The slightest deficiency can contribute to short and long term poor health and can be linked to many diseases and disease risks.
We then begin to explore another fascinating group of substances found in our diet. These aren't nutrients per se as there are no set requirements for them and you cannot be 'deficient' in them, but they do have the power to deliver an almost pharmaceutical activity in the body. These substances are the phytochemicals or phytonutrients.
In both cases we explore what they do, where to find them, and how best to consume them.
Assessment: Online Exam
MODULE 2
Guiding Clients To Better Nutritional Foundations
The purpose of this module is to further familiarise you with the basic coaching skills that you will use when working with clients. This doesn’t really matter whether it’s online as an influencer or blogger, as a writer, in person in a cooking class, one to one with a client in their home. Remember, your clients will all be at different levels. Some will have been focused on improving their health for awhile, but many that you work with will be right at the beginning of their journey.
With this in mind it is important that you know how to navigate someone through the basics of dietary improvement, healthier eating, and how to enable them to make lasting change in their diet before you start getting into all the specifics of their dietary needs.
Your clients have to start their journey from the very beginning so this module is all about the tools for developing change, including a few tools and resources you can give to clients to help them on their way.
Assessment: evaluation of a case study with a written action plan.
MODULE 3
Dysfunctional Metabolism: The Root Of Disease
This may be, in our opinion one of the most important modules in the entire diploma. This is because it really sets the stage for such a wide understanding of the influence that nutrition has upon disease process.
The developed World is in a healthcare crisis. Diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity are placing enormous demand upon our healthcare systems, to the point where they are about to break. These issues really are down to the way in which our modern diet and lifestyle is causing havoc and severe metabolic dysfunction. The phenomena of metabolic syndrome is well documented.
This module focuses upon this widespread metabolic dysfunction and how diet can both be a major cause, and in many cases the most relevant and effective management tool.
Assessment: a combination of an online exam, case study evaluation, and recipe/meal plan design project.
MODULE 4
Joints & Bones
Diseases of the skeleton and the joints are almost universal in an ageing population to one degree or another. Whilst not a cure all by any means, diet as an intervention can improve several aspects of joint and bone health. This can be from both the point of view of preventing premature damage and degeneration, through to directly targeting specific diseases of the joints and bones.
This module will as always explore the anatomy and physiology of the bones and joints. We then explore disease processes for issues such as osteoporosis and the different types of arthritis. Then we progress to the role that diet can play in supporting long term skeletal health and also the part it can play in long term management of conditions.
Assessment: a combination of an online exam, case study evaluation, and recipe/meal plan design project.
MODULE 5
Mental Health: The Nutrition Connection
We are living in a time when more and more people are finding their mental health challenged. Our modern way of living does very little for our mental wellbeing.
Social isolation, life pressures, poor diet and lifestyle choices, there are many factors of our modern condition that drive this, and all of them are important for sound mental health.
This module explores the anatomy and physiology of the brain and nervous system, anxiety, and depression and their physiological attributes and causes, and then how nutrition can form PART of the therapeutic programme. Our diet can be an incredibly powerful tool in regulating so many different aspects of brain function. When you understand this, you can change your diet accordingly and take meaningful steps to create significant change. The simplest of diet changes have completely transformed the lives of hundreds of thousands of clients.
Assessment: a combination of an online exam, case study evaluation, and recipe/meal plan design project.
MODULE 6
Nutrition & Immunity
At no other point in history have we been so acutely reminded of how important our immunity is and how serious things can get if it is healthy and thriving. Our immune system is our defence agains everything that ails us and keeping it strong is of vital importance. Not just for warding off coughs and colds, but for protection against some of the most serious conditions that plague us. Cancer for example is a disease that relies on a strong robust immune system to be managed successfully by the body
This module explores the cells and organisation of the immune system, how they function, and how diet and nutrition can support and even enhance the way in which this vital system works.
Assessment: a combination of an online exam, case study evaluation, and recipe/meal plan design project.
MODULE 7
Skin Health & Common Skin Conditions
Skin conditions, while seldom life threatening, can be some of the most distressing afflictions that we can suffer from. It is in fact acne that set our founder, Dale Pinnock on the road to discovering nutrition, so this module is most definitely of importance to us.
The skin is on display and skin flare ups
like acne and psoriasis can be incredibly distressing and severely affect quality of life. After exploring the anatomy and physiology of the skin, this module explores the common three skin conditions where diet and nutrition can have an impact – Acne, Eczema and Psoriasis. We explore how nutrition interacts with disease process and how it can be manipulated as a therapeutic tool for managing these conditions.
Assessment: a combination of an online exam, case study evaluation, and recipe/meal plan design project.
MODULE 8
Nutrition & Cardiovascular Health
This is the biggest module on the whole course and has very close links Heart disease and cardiovascular issues are among the biggest killers in the Western World and represent one of the biggest strains upon our global healthcare systems. Many of the modern cardiovascular issues are very much preventable and certainly manageable with changes in lifestyle. Diet being one of the most profound changes along with exercise and stress management.
In this module we explore as always the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular system. Then we move on to exploring disease processes, both nutritional in origin and those driven by other factors. Then we explore the ways in which changing the diet can influence these disease processes from both exacerbating them, through to prevent, managing, and in some cases reversing them.
Assessment: a combination of an online exam, case study evaluation, and recipe/meal plan design project.
MODULE 9
The Digestive System & Digestive Disorders
The final module before you jump into your final major project. Digestive issues are one of the most common things that plague us in modern times. Issues that vary from the annoying, to the dangerous, knowing what dietary strategy is suitable and most importantly safe is vital for aiding clients in their self management of these issues.
As always we begin with exploring the anatomy and physiology. Then we move into pathophysiology - the changes in normal function that arise because of or establish disease. Then we look at the way nutritional intervention influences these disease processes, and can support general digestive health.
Assessment: a combination of an online exam, case study evaluation, and recipe/meal plan design project.
MODULE 10
Final Major Project
Once you have worked through all 9 of our taught modules, it is then your chance to take a head first leap into the depths of the area that interests you!
Whether it is auto immune conditions, arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease. Whatever has really gripped your interest. This is your chance to deeply research this subject and create your in depth dissertation and discussion of the role that nutrition plays in this subject.
Once you have created your write up, you will then be tasked with creating a full 7 day meal plan, researched and referenced to the highest evidence led standard.
How You Are Taught & Assessed
Throughout this programme you will follow the same simple teaching and assessment framework for every module. Work through the course material in your own time then, when you are ready, sit the online exam. Following the exam you will have 2 pieces of coursework. The first is a case study analysis. These are real cases from our clinics (just had the names changed). Then, the second piece of coursework will be a recipe development/meal planning assignment that is based around the core teachings of the module. Once the second written assignment is submitted, the next module unlocks for you.
Meet Some Of Our Students & Graduates
Get to know them, their experiences, and where the course has taken them.
"I took the diploma then took the leap and left my corporate job. Now I am celebrating 5 years of my health & nutrition business"
Viki Garbett - Diploma graduate & founder of 'Twiddle Food' - a community based business that teaches children how to cook healthy food and why it is so essential.
"I have no scientific background AND I am running a business full time, but I can study when I have free time, knowing that there are no deadlines for assignments. It suits my life perfectly. "
Samantha - Current Diploma Student
"I knew it was going to be a very challenging course, and something that I would have to really apply myself to, but have loved every second and am, so proud to have graduated in 2024"
Teresa - Personal Trainer & Diploma graduate
How We Deliver The Course
An interactive online learning platform that works on any device.
Our learning environment works beautifully on all devices so you can easily study at home or on the go, in a crystal clear seamless environment.
Monthly live group sessions.
Every month we host live sessions for all students. These sessions are open Q&A for all things nutritional science and study support. You get lifetime access to these - even after graduation.
A wide variety of teaching materials to suit all learning types
We use a combination of video lectures, audio downloads, visual presentations and downloadable pdf documents, to cater for all types of learner.
Ongoing tutor support sessions as and when you need them.
Yes we are an online programme, but you are not on your own. We have an absolute open door policy where you can get as much one on one support from us as you need.
Learning archives.
There are additional learning archives to support your education: one for nutrition & one for business. These feature insights from global leaders in nutritional science and top business and marketing experts.
A faculty of teaching staff that are the leaders in the industry.
We have a combined teaching team of Dr's, Clinicians, World acclaimed academics, and nutritional pioneers teaching you throughout this journey. Get ready to go deep.
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Follow Your Passion. Let Us Guide You All The Way:
Just take a look around you. Our health is failing fast and more people than ever need help. Real help! With an ever more burdened healthcare system, this help often never comes, or it falls dramatically short.
This growing health crisis opens a door for those trained in nutrition, who can guide others on their journey to better health and well-being.
There is an opportunity to build an incredible career around the subject that you love, that will help others towards a better life too.
Our diploma provides you with the expertise and tools needed to make a profound impact on the health and lives of others.
With our comprehensive training, you'll have everything you need to succeed.
The 'Diploma in Nutrition & Culinary Medicine' makes you an expert in your field, and guides you by the hand towards career success.
Now is the time. Don't put your dreams on hold any longer. Get started today and take a step closer to building a rewarding and life changing career.
Two Ways To Join:
Monthly Payment Plan - £1000 deposit, then 12 payments of £199
TAKE THIS OPTIONSingle Payment Option - the best value option. One single payment of £3000
TAKE THIS OPTIONPLUS WHEN YOU JOIN, THERE IS A SPECIAL BONUS:
'The Wellness Entrepreneurs Launch & Grow Roadmap'
When you sign up to the ‘Diploma in Nutrition & Culinary Medicine’, as a free bonus gift you get access to our world class business programme. This programme retails at £550. But it is our gift to you when you join the diploma.
It is a comprehensive masterclass designed to elevate your wellness focused business. It offers actionable, step-by-step guidance to build a thriving, scalable business and a career you will love.
Master your social media. Learn to transform social media followers into loyal fans through strategic content, effectively marketing without compromising credibility.
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Master techniques to market your digital products to both existing audiences and new prospects, employing tailored communication strategies and setting up evergreen sales systems.
Learn how to become a published author. Gain insights into developing compelling book ideas, crafting proposals, and navigating both traditional publishing and self-publishing avenues.
Learn to establish media relationships, approach producers, and position yourself as a go-to expert in your niche for TV, radio, and print opportunities. This is true marketing and brand building gold.
Designed for wellness professionals aiming to expand their reach and impact, this masterclass offers a structured pathway to build a successful, multi-faceted business.
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