Advanced Training

advanced training through pesi

For more than two decades, I’ve taught clinicians and the public to turn cutting-edge nutrition and lifestyle research into practical, sustainable results. Since 2020, I’ve partnered with PESI to deliver high-quality continuing education across seminars, courses, certifications, and immersive retreats. These programs are designed for healthcare practitioners who need CEUs—and for anyone who wants a deeper dive into topics like food as medicine, hormone balance, gut health, and metabolic resilience.

Short Format
Seminars

Short-format trainings (often 1–3 hours) focused on targeted skills and clinical updates.

On-Demand
Courses

Deeper, structured learning (multi-hour) with practical frameworks and tools.

Certifications
+ Retreats

Advanced credentials and experiences to transform your practice—and yourself.

Featured Seminars

Tackling autoimmunity with targeted nutrition and lifestyle tactics

Autoimmunity is rising, especially in women, yet often goes undiagnosed for years. This training covers risk factors, testing, and practical nutrition and lifestyle strategies to manage autoimmune dysfunction holistically.

Time: 2 Hours
Cost: $129.99

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Fasting Strategies: Reduce Inflammation & Pain to Optimize Movement & Recovery

This training simplifies fasting protocols, helping you assess which patients will benefit and learn practical strategies for time-restricted, intermittent, and fasting-mimicking diets.

Time: 2 hours
Cost: $129.99

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Metabolic Syndrome: Causes, Criteria, and Corrections to Optimize Long-Term Metabolic Health

Metabolic syndrome is preventable yet increasingly common, raising the risk for serious illness. This session explores practical lifestyle and nutrition strategies to restore health and prevent complications.

Time: 2 hours
Cost: $129.99

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The Menopause Makeover: The Power of Food and Lifestyle to Calm the Chaos in this Critical Life Stage

This session teaches holistic menopause management, helping female patients restore balance, ease symptoms, and reduce disease risks through nutrition, lifestyle, and environmental strategies.

Time: 2 hours
Cost: $129.99

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Gut Health & Hormones

This session explores the crucial connection between gut health and hormones, covering key dysfunctions, inflammation, and practical strategies like the 5R gut repair protocol to restore balance and optimize overall health.

Time: 1.5 hours
Cost: $69.99

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Adrenal Health

This training covers adrenal health, teaching simple lifestyle and nutrition strategies to manage stress, improve sleep, curb cravings, and support hormone balance—giving you actionable tools to help patients feel better naturally.

Time: 1.5 hours
Cost: $69.99

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Master Thyroid Function with Nutrition and Lifestyle Optimization

This session covers thyroid health, revealing how to identify dysfunction beyond standard lab tests and providing practical lifestyle strategies to naturally rebalance the thyroid, reduce fatigue, and support overall well-being.

Time: 1.5 hours
Cost: $69.99

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Mindfulness, Sleep, & Circadian Rhythms – How They Optimize Physical & Cognitive Recovery

Learn practical strategies to help clients improve sleep and manage stress naturally, with easy-to-use tools and exercises that align them with healthy circadian rhythms—no medications needed.

Time: 2 hours
Cost: $69.99

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Estrogen Dominance

Explore the causes and impacts of estrogen dominance at any stage of a woman’s life. This session helps you identify root causes, manage hormone disruption, and create effective lifestyle protocols that support fertility, hormonal balance, and overall health.

Time: 1.5 hours
Cost: $69.99

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Healing from Within: The 5R Protocol for Gut Health and Hormone Balance

Explore how diet and lifestyle impact gut health and hormones. Learn to identify gut dysfunctions like leaky gut and dysbiosis, address hormonal imbalances, and apply the 5R Gut Repair Protocol—Remove, Replace, Reinoculate, Repair, Rebalance—for lasting gut and hormone health.

Time: 2 hours
Cost: $129.99

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Featured Courses

2-Day Integrative Cancer Care: Strategies to Optimize Care for Cancer Prevention, Recovery, and Reduction of Recurrence

Learn to reduce cancer risk and support recovery through evidence-based nutrition, lifestyle, and exercise strategies.

Time: 10.5 hours
Cost: $459.99

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The No-Diet Blueprint for Healthy Eating That You'll Actually Stick To!

This program makes nutrition simple and sustainable—helping you boost energy, curb cravings, improve digestion, and reduce chronic disease risk, all while enjoying the foods you love.

Time: 30 days
Cost: $169.99

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A Healthcare Professional's Guide to Hormone Imbalance: Nutrition and Lifestyle Solutions to Rebalance Cortisol, Insulin, Thyroid, Estrogen, Progesterone & Testosterone

Learn to identify the root causes of hormonal imbalances and create nutrition and lifestyle plans that naturally restore balance, reduce symptoms, and improve overall health.

Time: 7 hours
Cost: $249.99

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Integrative Approaches to Gut-Brain Health

Explore the gut-brain connection and its impact on mood, cognition, and overall health. Learn practical strategies using nutrition, lifestyle, and integrative therapies to restore balance and improve patient outcomes.

Time: 6 hours
Cost: $249.99

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Insulin Resistance: The Missing Link in Chronic Disease Prevention and Management

Learn to spot and address insulin resistance early—often before blood sugar rises—to prevent diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic conditions. This training provides practical, evidence-based strategies to identify root causes and intervene with diet, lifestyle, and integrative approaches for better patient outcomes.

Time: 4 hours
Cost: $169.99

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Food as Medicine Intensive Online Training

Nutrition is the most powerful tool to prevent disease, improve mood, and boost performance—but misinformation and addictive foods make it challenging. This training brings together top experts to give practical, evidence-based strategies you can use in practice to help patients see real results.

Time: 33 hours
Cost: $399.99

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Women's Health for Rehab Professionals

This comprehensive self-study brings together eight expert clinicians to help you confidently address pelvic health, hormonal changes, and related dysfunctions. Learn practical strategies and interventions to reduce pain, improve strength and movement, and enhance patient outcomes.

Time: 17 hours
Cost: $299.99

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FREE LIVE EVENT! | Nov. 21, 2025 | Expert IBS Panel Discussion: Improving Diagnosis and Exploring Treatment Options

This expert-led roundtable combines GI, pharmacy, and functional nutrition insights to help you build individualized care plans for IBS and related conditions. Learn to identify root causes, streamline testing, and apply practical, evidence-based strategies you can use immediately.

Time: Nov 21, 2025 from 12-2 pm CST (online course available after that time)
Cost: Free

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Certifications + Retreats

3-Day Functional Nutrition Certification

Feeling unsure about giving nutrition advice? This session gives evidence-based, practical strategies to safely guide patients with conditions like diabetes, thyroid issues, chronic pain, and autoimmunity—clearing confusion and empowering better health outcomes.

Time: 19.5 hours
Cost: $599.99

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Food as Medicine Certification

Your patients are tired of “just move more, eat less.” This course gives you simple, evidence-based strategies to support lasting change and become a Certified Functional Nutrition Informed Professional—helping patients heal faster and feel better.

Time: 21.5 hours
Cost: $399.99

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Immersive Functional Nutrition Certification Course

Become a Certified Functional Nutrition Informed Professional (CFNIP) and unlock the power of functional nutrition in your practice. This 6-month program goes far beyond 40 hours, combining on-demand educational modules, LIVE Q&A sessions with me and Vanessa Ruiz, ND, RN-BSN, and access to a supportive community forum. You’ll gain expert guidance and practical tools to address root causes, integrate lab testing, and transform patient health.

Time: 40 hours
Cost: $999.99

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Women's Health Certification

Optimize care for women at every stage of life with insights from 12 expert clinicians. Covering pelvic floor, hormones, prenatal care, gut health, and more, this program gives practical strategies to help female patients move better, feel stronger, and thrive.

Time: 28.5 hours
Cost: $299.99

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Why PESI

PESI is a leader in professional continuing education, providing high-quality training and resources for healthcare, mental health, and rehabilitation professionals for over 40 years. Together, we deliver practical, evidence-informed education that helps you serve patients with confidence.