Supporting Your Immune System Through Nutrition

Who is this course for?

The Supporting Your Immune System Through Nutrition course will provide therapists with a better understanding of how food can help prevent disease and support the immune system. The food we eat daily can have a significant impact on our overall health and ability to fight disease. The information on nutrition and the immune system can be daunting. This class takes a simple, “food first” approach to improving your overall health and immune system.

Any practitioner or strength and conditioning coach should take this course if they would like to learn more about how food can support their personal immune system. Also, this course is useful to learn how to council your clients and patients about the fundamental importance of food choices, and how these choices can impact their overall health and immunity. While nutritional supplements can be helpful, they should be suggested by a qualified practitioner after specific testing is performed and should be used to complement a complete and nutritious diet, not make up for a poor diet. This course will give any clinician or strength coach the tools to safely improve their clients health by suggesting foods that will boost the immune system, especially during stressful times.

As a therapist or strength coach…

We were all taught about the basics of nutrition, however, unless you are constantly studying this potentially complicated area of human health and performance, the information out there can be daunting. We know everything from digestion, energy, sleep and injury is related to nutrition. How can we help our patients and clients improve their overall health through food?

We are the ones that are face to face with our clients and patients on a weekly basis. They not only look to us to help with a specific problem, but to improve their overall quality of life. In today’s world of illness and viruses, it is important that we remain at the forefront of nutritional counselling, within our scope of practice, to improve our clients’ lives. Taking a food first approach to supporting the immune system can be a safe and effective way to change our client’s overall lifestyle and impact their health in a positive way.

Are you dealing with patients or clients who experience poor sleep, poor digestion, chronic injury and overall poor health?

We know nutrition can impact our clients sleep patterns, gut health, and inflammation, just to name a few. The foods our patients and clients are eating can have a huge impact, both negative and positive, on the gains they are able to make during their rehabilitation and performance training.

Furthermore, our patients are seeking information on how to stay healthy and avoid viruses and illnesses, now more than ever. The information that is on the internet is confusing, daunting, and overwhelming. If we can offer simple solutions for better overall health to our clients, everyone wins!

Do you want to learn ways to improve the results with all of your patients and clients?

• Proper food choices can impact the health of you, your patients and your clients in a variety of ways
• Knowing what vitamins and minerals are important to help the immune system and what foods to find these vital sources of nutrition can be incredibly impactful to our client’s lives and overall health
• Keeping our clients healthy and virus free can positively impact our local and global communities

Learn about…

• What vitamins and minerals are important for a healthy immune system
• Learn what foods can be eaten to improve and maintain a healthy immune system
• Learn about nutritional testing and how this can improve specific patient guidelines for their overall health

This course is for you if you are looking to…

Learn about nutrients and how they impact immune function? Module 1 is for you.

Learn how gut health can impact immune function? Module 2 is for you.

Learn about other ways to support you or your client’s immune function? Module 2 is for you.

Your instructor Danielle Lafata will discuss…

• Nutrients and how they impact your and your client’s overall immune function
• How gut health impacts the immune system, and how you can council someone to support and promote good gut health
• Nutritional testing to dive even deeper into your or your client’s food and supplement choices to improve and support their immune function.

Full Course description

What will you learn as a student in this Course?

• Understand the basics of our immune system
• Briefly review and discuss what weakens our immune system
• How environmental, psychological, physiological stress impacts the immune system
• How poor gut health can impact the immune system
• How diet can affect someone’s overall health
• Discuss nutrients such as antioxidants and what foods to find them in
• How the microbiome helps to support and boost our immune system and what we can do to support it

What’s included in this course?

• 4 lessons including, 45 hour of video
• A complete downloadable transcript for you to follow along.
• 9 article readings
• Course completion quiz

Reading materials

All reading materials are downloaded through PubMed free PMC.

• Campbell JP, Turner JE. Debunking the Myth of Exercise-Induced Immune Suppression: Redefining the Impact of Exercise on Immunological Health Across the Lifespan. Front Immunol. 2018;9:648. Published 2018 Apr 16. doi:10.3389/fimmu.2018.00648
• Hill D, Sugrue I, Arendt E, Hill C, Stanton C, Ross RP. Recent advances in microbial fermentation for dairy and health. F1000Res. 2017;6:751. Published 2017 May 26. doi:10.12688/f1000research.10896.1
• Kinker B, Comstock AT, Sajjan US (2014) Quercetin: A Promising Treatment for the Common Cold. J Anc Dis Prev Rem 2: 111. doi:10.4172/2329-8731.1000111
• Jarosz, M., Olbert, M., Wyszogrodzka, G., Młyniec, K., & Librowski, T. (2017). Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of zinc. Zinc-dependent NF-κB signaling. Inflammopharmacology, 25(1), 11–24. doi:10.1007/s10787-017-0309-4
• Jones AW, Davison G. Exercise, Immunity, and Illness. Muscle and Exercise Physiology. 2019;317‐344. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-814593-7.00015-3
• Maggini S, Pierre A, Calder PC. Immune Function and Micronutrient Requirements Change over the Life Course. Nutrients. 2018;10(10):1531. Published 2018 Oct 17. doi:10.3390/nu10101531
• Mankowski RT, Anton SD, Buford TW, Leeuwenburgh C. Dietary Antioxidants as Modifiers of Physiologic Adaptations to Exercise. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2015;47(9):1857‐1868. doi:10.1249/MSS.0000000000000620
• Popkin BM, D’Anci KE, Rosenberg IH. Water, hydration, and health. Nutr Rev. 2010;68(8):439‐458. doi:10.1111/j.1753-4887.2010.00304.x
• Rezac S, Kok CR, Heermann M, Hutkins R. Fermented Foods as a Dietary Source of Live Organisms. Front Microbiol. 2018;9:1785. Published 2018 Aug 24. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.01785

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If you aren’t satisfied with the course within the first 30 days after your first payment but before you have taken the final exam, you can get a refund. We’ll cancel the course immediately upon your refund request and issue the refund to your credit card though our processor Stripe.

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