Master’s Program Course Descriptions

MOD-5-1: Understanding Nutrition in Detail – This module outlines the essentials of nutrition that is at the forefront of the latest advances in human nutrition-helping you understand what the scientific facts tell us about human nutrition and health.
                              
MOD-5-2: Nutrition and Diet Therapy – This module provides core nutrition concepts and up-to-date clinical content at a level that is accessible to the range of health care team members who are responsible for a client’s nutrition needs. It also provides the basic facts and a wealth of practical information needed to assume their responsibility for nutrition care.
 
MOD-5-3: Nutrient Power – Recent advances in the molecular biology of the brain and epigenetics have illuminated a new plan. A research-based nutrient therapy system that can help people with a variety of mental disorders. The guide explains that nutrient imbalance can cause mental disorders by disrupting gene expression of proteins and enzymes, crippling the body’s protection against environmental toxins, and changing brain levels of key neurotransmitters. This course will show families, patients, and doctors how to change their behavior and improve their health through new skills that will last when psychiatric drugs are no longer used.

MOD-5-4: How Not To Die – reveals the groundbreaking scientific evidence behind the only diet that can help prevent and reverse many of the causes of disease-related death.  The fifteen leading causes of death claim the lives of 1.6 million Americans annually. In addition to showing what to eat to help treat the top fifteen causes of death, How Not to Die includes Dr. Greger’s Daily Dozen -a checklist of the twelve foods we should consume every day. Full of practical, actionable advice and surprising, cutting-edge nutritional science, these doctor’s orders are just what we need to live longer, healthier lives.

MOD-5-5: The Future of Nutrition – Despite extensive research and overwhelming public information on nutrition and health science, we are more confused than ever—about the foods we eat, what good nutrition looks like, and what it can do for our health. This course cuts through the noise with an in-depth analysis of our historical relationship to the food we eat, the source of our present information over-load, and what our current path means for the future-both for individual health and society as a whole.

MOD-5-6: Clinical Nutrition and Aging – As the older adult population continues to grow, so will the prevalence and incidence of age-related disorders. In this module we will focus on perspectives and the latest scientific and clinical developments in age-associated disease.
 
MOD-5-7: Dirty Genes A Breakthrough Program – Dr. Ben Lynch discovered the root cause— “dirty” genes. Genes can be “born dirty” or merely “act dirty” in response to your environment, diet, or lifestyle—causing lifelong, life-threatening, and chronic health problems, including cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disorders, anxiety, depression, digestive issues, obesity, cancer, and diabetes. Dr. Lynch shows you how to identify and optimize both types of dirty genes by cleaning them up with targeted and personalized plans, including healthy eating, good sleep, stress relief, environmental detox, and other holistic and natural means. Many of us believe our genes doom us to the disorders that run in our families, but Dr. Lynch shows you how to ultimately rewrite your genetic destiny.

MOD-5-8: Macronutrients, Micronutrients, and Metabolism – This topic focuses on biochemistry and physiology. It introduces integral concepts in nutrition science, such as energy, regulation of food intake, nutritional biochemistry, cell cycle, nutrigenomics, and epigenetics. Additionally, emphasis is placed on specific micronutrients and macronutrients with respect to their roles in metabolism.
 
MOD-5-9: Nutrition for Sport and Exercise – This topic integrates nutrition and exercise physiology principles, emphasizing scientific reasoning and examining research studies to illuminate the evidence for current nutritional recommendations. In addition, it helps you translate these nutrition recommendations to specific plans for the appropriate amount and type of foods, beverages, and/or supplements to support training, performance, and recovery.
 
MOD-5-10: Nutritional Science – This topic helps develop the scientific understanding to support personal and professional decisions. Using a critical thinking approach, it brings nutrition out of the classroom and allows students to apply the logic of science to their own nutrition concerns both as consumers and as future scientists and health professionals.

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