RSN Tier 1

Tier 1:

Functional Nutrition

Course Description

This 4-month Functional Nutrition program delivers all of the tools and skills you’ll need to confidently take a root cause approach with your clients and implement functional nutrition protocols for your clients using nutrition, supplement protocols, and lifestyle coaching.

This program is designed to be the foundation for functional medicine and is great for any coaches wanting to take a root cause approach with their clients or practitioners who need to set the foundation prior to lab testing interpretation (Tier 2.)

Curriculum Highlights

Functional Nutrition - What is Functional Nutrition, how does this differ from Western Medicine’s approach, and Rachel’s Functional Medicine philosophy.
The Main Initiators of Disease - All dis-ease comes down to 4 main types of stress and how they impact the body systems.
The 4 Types of Physiological Damage - Most clients you will work with suffer from one of these underlying root causes.
Nutrition and Lifestyle - Understand what nutrition and lifestyle changes will be needed to help the body heal from the different types of physiological damage.
Supplements - Understand what supplements are needed based on each type of physiological damage.

Lifestyle Factors for Healing - The 4 main lifestyle factors for healing are diet, exercise, sleep, and stress.
Nutrition - Understand the different types of healing diets and how to implement each based on your clients core health issues.
Healing diets - Learn how to help your clients reduce inflammation, eliminate food reactions, balance their blood sugar, and support their microbiome.
Exercise - Understand exercise recommendations based on client health issues and the role resistance training plays in metabolic health.
Sleep - Understand the sleep cycle and the role sleep plays in healing and learn protocols to optimize sleep and recovery.
Meditation - Understand the role meditation, breath work, and mindfulness play in healing and overall health.

Energy Balance - understand how energy balance works in weight gain and weight loss.
Metabolic adaptation - Chronic dieting and stress can lead to metabolic adaptation making it harder for your clients to lose weight. Learn how to prevent and reverse this with your clients.
Macros - Understand and learn the difference carbohydrates, fats, and protein play in overall health and body composition.
Calculating Macro Goals - Learn how to calculate macros from your clients for fat loss, muscle gain, or maintenance.
The Key to Longevity - Bonus teaching from Dr. Gabrielle Lyon on Muscle-Centric Medicine

How Cortisol Works - Understand the role cortisol plays in the body and how chronic stress can lead to various health issues and disease.
HPA-Axis - Understand how the body’s HPA-axis works and how it is interconnected with other systems in the body.
Stages of Adrenal Exhaustion - From acute stress to chronic stress, learn how stress can overtime deplete the body’s reserves and how you can help your clients recover and heal from burnout.
Resetting the HPA-Axis - We will give you exact protocols for addressing HPA-Axis dysfunction and repairing the adrenal glands.

Root Causes - Learn the root causes for thyroid dysfunction like hypothyroidism and Hashimotos
Autoimmune - Lean the root causes of autoimmune conditions and tactical protocols for healing the body’s immune system.
Nutrition - Learn nutrition strategies for healing thyroid imbalances.
Correcting Thyroid Imbalances - Learn targeted protocols for correcting and healing thyroid imbalances.

Gut Microbiome - Hippocrates said that “all disease begins and ends in the gut.” Learn how the microbiome influences our overall health and the role it plays in disease.
The 4 Tiers of Gut Imbalances - Learn the levels of gut imbalances from low diversity, gut inflammation, leaky gut, digestive insufficiency, SIBO, parasites, and IBD.
Gut Health - This is the final stage after any gut healing protocol. Learn nutrition and supplement strategies and optimizing digestion and the gut microbiome.
Gut Healing - This is a short-term procools meant to bring the body back to balance and reverse symptoms and disease. Learn the 4-R approach for healing the gut.
Rachel’s Gut Health Repair Program - This is Rachel’s 3-month group coaching program that you get as an added bonus so see how she coaches clients on gut healing and body composition simultaneously.

Intro to Female Hormones - Learn the complexity of the female menstrual cycle, the transition into menopause, and the estrogen and progesterone play.
Root Causes - Discover how hormone imbalances are a byproduct of diet, stress, and poor detoxification and gut health.
Common Female Hormone Imbalances - Learn and understand the 4 most common female hormone imbalances: PMS, PCOS, FMD, and Infertility and functional nutrition protocols for each.
Perimenopause and Menopause - Learn how to create and implement programs for women age 42+ that are just entering menopause and postmenopause.
Supplements - Understand key targeted supplement protocols for hormonal symptoms and imbalances.

Toxins - Learn about environmental toxins present in everyday life and how they impact your client’s health and lead to disease.
Body Burden and Genetics - Understand what the body burden is and how environment, genetics, and detoxification can influence this.
Low Toxin Living - Tips to help your clients reduce their toxic load and improve their health.
Detoxification - Learn how phase 1 and phase 2 detoxification works, nutrients required, and protocols for supporting detoxification with nutrition and supplementation.

This is a BONUS section that will be found inside of your guidebook.

Neurotransmission - Learn how neurotransmission works and how diet, lifestyle, and medications can impact mental health.
BRIGHT MINDS - Learn the B.R.I.G.H.T M.I.N.D.S risk factors for brain imbalances.
Brain Imbalances - Learn how neurotransmitter deficiencies, damaged neurons, and genetics can lead to brain imbalances.
Nutrition and supplement protocols - Learn key targeted Functional Nutrition protocols for addressing the B.R.I.G.H.T M.I.N.D.S factors.

Module 1:  Functional Nutrition Framework

Functional Nutrition - What is Functional Nutrition, how does this differ from Western Medicine’s approach, and Rachel’s Functional Medicine philosophy.
The Main Initiators of Disease - All dis-ease comes down to 4 main types of stress and how they impact the body systems.
The 4 Types of Physiological Damage - Most clients you will work with suffer from one of these underlying root causes.
Nutrition and Lifestyle - Understand what nutrition and lifestyle changes will be needed to help the body heal from the different types of physiological damage.
Supplements - Understand what supplements are needed based on each type of physiological damage.

Module 2: Lifestyle Factors

Lifestyle Factors for Healing - The 4 main lifestyle factors for healing are diet, exercise, sleep, and stress.
Nutrition - Understand the different types of healing diets and how to implement each based on your clients core health issues.
Healing diets - Learn how to help your clients reduce inflammation, eliminate food reactions, balance their blood sugar, and support their microbiome.
Exercise - Understand exercise recommendations based on client health issues and the role resistance training plays in metabolic health.
Sleep - Understand the sleep cycle and the role sleep plays in healing and learn protocols to optimize sleep and recovery.
Meditation - Understand the role meditation, breath work, and mindfulness play in healing and overall health.

Module 3: Body Composition

Energy Balance - understand how energy balance works in weight gain and weight loss.
Metabolic adaptation - Chronic dieting and stress can lead to metabolic adaptation making it harder for your clients to lose weight. Learn how to prevent and reverse this with your clients.
Macros - Understand and learn the difference carbohydrates, fats, and protein play in overall health and body composition.
Calculating Macro Goals - Learn how to calculate macros from your clients for fat loss, muscle gain, or maintenance.
The Key to Longevity - Bonus teaching from Dr. Gabrielle Lyon on Muscle-Centric Medicine

Module 4: Adrenals and Chronic Stress

How Cortisol Works - Understand the role cortisol plays in the body and how chronic stress can lead to various health issues and disease.
HPA-Axis - Understand how the body’s HPA-axis works and how it is interconnected with other systems in the body.
Stages of Adrenal Exhaustion - From acute stress to chronic stress, learn how stress can overtime deplete the body’s reserves and how you can help your clients recover and heal from burnout.
Resetting the HPA-Axis - We will give you exact protocols for addressing HPA-Axis dysfunction and repairing the adrenal glands.

Module 5: Thyroid

Root Causes - Learn the root causes for thyroid dysfunction like hypothyroidism and Hashimotos
Autoimmune - Lean the root causes of autoimmune conditions and tactical protocols for healing the body’s immune system.
Nutrition - Learn nutrition strategies for healing thyroid imbalances.
Correcting Thyroid Imbalances - Learn targeted protocols for correcting and healing thyroid imbalances.

Module 6: Gut Microbiome

Gut Microbiome - Hippocrates said that “all disease begins and ends in the gut.” Learn how the microbiome influences our overall health and the role it plays in disease.
The 4 Tiers of Gut Imbalances - Learn the levels of gut imbalances from low diversity, gut inflammation, leaky gut, digestive insufficiency, SIBO, parasites, and IBD.
Gut Health - This is the final stage after any gut healing protocol. Learn nutrition and supplement strategies and optimizing digestion and the gut microbiome.
Gut Healing - This is a short-term procools meant to bring the body back to balance and reverse symptoms and disease. Learn the 4-R approach for healing the gut.
Rachel’s Gut Health Repair Program - This is Rachel’s 3-month group coaching program that you get as an added bonus so see how she coaches clients on gut healing and body composition simultaneously.

Module 7: Female Hormones

Intro to Female Hormones - Learn the complexity of the female menstrual cycle, the transition into menopause, and the estrogen and progesterone play.
Root Causes - Discover how hormone imbalances are a byproduct of diet, stress, and poor detoxification and gut health.
Common Female Hormone Imbalances - Learn and understand the 4 most common female hormone imbalances: PMS, PCOS, FMD, and Infertility and functional nutrition protocols for each.
Perimenopause and Menopause - Learn how to create and implement programs for women age 42+ that are just entering menopause and postmenopause.
Supplements - Understand key targeted supplement protocols for hormonal symptoms and imbalances.

Module 8:  Liver and Detoxification

Toxins - Learn about environmental toxins present in everyday life and how they impact your client’s health and lead to disease.
Body Burden and Genetics - Understand what the body burden is and how environment, genetics, and detoxification can influence this.
Low Toxin Living - Tips to help your clients reduce their toxic load and improve their health.
Detoxification - Learn how phase 1 and phase 2 detoxification works, nutrients required, and protocols for supporting detoxification with nutrition and supplementation.

Bonus Module 9: Brain Health

This is a BONUS section that will be found inside of your guidebook.
Neurotransmission - Learn how neurotransmission works and how diet, lifestyle, and medications can impact mental health.
BRIGHT MINDS - Learn the B.R.I.G.H.T M.I.N.D.S risk factors for brain imbalances.
Brain Imbalances - Learn how neurotransmitter deficiencies, damaged neurons, and genetics can lead to brain imbalances.
Nutrition and supplement protocols - Learn key targeted Functional Nutrition protocols for addressing the B.R.I.G.H.T M.I.N.D.S factors.

This program also includes:

Online course materials
Private community: You’ll have access to our private community of coaches and practitioners for discussions on course materials, case studies and other relevant topics.
Functional Medicine Nutrition Handbook: As a RSN Institute student, you get an entire book and resource guide for protocols based on various health conditions.
Time Commitment: Designed for people who plan on learning while still working in their day-day job. All modules are pre-recorded and the live Q+As are recorded with an option to submit your questions ahead of time.
Bi-Weekly Tier 1 LIVE Q+A calls with Rachel Scheer
Final Exam and Certification

Who is this course for?

The 4-Month Tier 1 Functional Nutrition Course is for anyone who is serious about wanting to get started in functional nutrition or learn advanced nutrition protocols to help their clients heal and reach their most optimal health.

Tier 1 is available for anyone, but recommended for those who already have base level education in nutrition.

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A Root Cause Approach for Health Coaches and Practitioners

Our certification program equips you with comprehensive training, hands-on experience, essential tools, and expert knowledge, ensuring you’re fully prepared to excel as a Functional Medicine Nutrition Practitioner (FMN-P).

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Functional medicine application
Specific nutrition protocols
Specific product recommendations
clear treatment model
Macros and Body Composition
Weekly Q+As and client help
Life coaching certification
Protocol book
Options for business coaching
Options for non-licensed professionals
Lab testing interpretation