Lifestyle Medicine for Nutrition Professionals   [Archived Catalog]
2024-2025 Saybrook Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Spring Addendum
   

IFN 5515 - Lifestyle Medicine for Nutrition Professionals


Designed for nutrition professionals, this course explores the science behind functional medicine's modifiable lifestyle factors through a systems biology lens. Students learn how movement, breathing, sleep, circadian rhythms, mindfulness and environment influence human health and performance. Students will develop the skills to evaluate a patient's modifiable lifestyle factors and recommend individualized interventions as a part of a holistic care plan.  

  Prerequisite(s): IFN 5670 Foundations of Integrative and Functional Nutrition  and IFN 5704 Anatomy and Physiology   3 credit(s)
Offered: Fall A/B, of even years Course Length: 15 weeks No RC required.