Nutrition & Dietetics
- Dietitians
- Nutritionists
- Nutrition Coaches
NewCertificate in Nutritional Neuroscience
You’re only seeing part of the story.
Learn the science connecting nutrition, the nervous system, and nutritional behavior with the Certificate in Nutritional Neuroscience.
100% Online & Self-PacedEarn CE Credits
Nutrition and the nervous system are always in conversation.
The way we eat can influence how the nervous system functions. But this also works in the other direction: your nervous system influences how you eat.
Nutritional neuroscience helps practitioners understand the two-way relationship between nutrition and the nervous system—including what that relationship means for brain health, mental health, and the way we eat.
See what becomes possible with Nutritional Neuroscience.
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Connect nutrition to brain and mental health so you can better understand how nutrition influences your client’s mood, cognition, stress responses, and nervous system.
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Better support clients with complex needs by adapting your approach for people who have experienced trauma, are neurodivergent, highly sensitive, and have complex health histories.
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Know what else to look for when someone’s diet alone doesn’t explain what you’re seeing—including the neurobiological, cognitive, sensory-perceptual, behavioral, and contextual influences.
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Translate nutritional behavior differently by recognizing when eating patterns may reflect what is happening across the nervous system, not simply knowledge or motivation.
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Identify your clients’ risks and mitigating factors so you can recognize factors that may increase vulnerability or support nervous system and nutritional health.
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Ask more informed questions that help you uncover relevant patterns, exposures, triggers, and influences that might otherwise be missed.
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Make more personalized recommendations by considering nervous system function, capacity, and context alongside nutritional needs.
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Explain the why more clearly so clients can better understand the connections between their nutrition, nervous system, mental health, and nutritional behavior.
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Nutritonal neuroscience training completely reframed how I understand the relationship between the brain and nutrition. It gave me clinical language I'd been searching for throughout my career.
Jessica Mueller, MS, RDN, IFNCP
Dietitian & Founder, The Mind Body Kitchen
A course designed for curious and inquisitive practitioners.
The Certificate in Nutritional Neuroscience is designed for compassionate, curious, and intellectually-driven health, mental health, nutrition, wellness, and medical practitioners who want to bring neuronutrition into the work they already do.
Mental Health
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Addiction Counselors
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- Personal Trainers
Medicine & Nursing
- Physicians
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- Physician Assistants
Rehabilitation
- Occupational Therapists
- Physical Therapists
- Speech-Language Pathologists
Integrative Health & Education
- Naturopathic Doctors
- Health Educators
- Somatic Therapists
Learn nutritional neuroscience from the ground up.
The Certificate in Nutritional Neuroscience takes you far beyond the gut-brain axis and “food influences mood” to build a deeper understanding of the science connecting nutrition, the nervous system, brain and mental health, and nutritional behavior.
Designed for compassionate, curious, and intellectually driven practitioners, this progressive curriculum brings together emerging research from nutrition, neuroscience, psychology, and neurology so you can connect the science and begin applying what you learn in the work you already do.
Study online at your pace
Finish in six months or less
Earn CE credits
Module 1
Introduction to Neuronutrition in Practice
Discover why nutritional behavior is brain behavior and learn a new way to understand the relationships between nutrition, the nervous system, and the way people eat.
Module 2
Nutritional Neuroanatomy & Neurophysiology
Learn how the brain and nervous system influence the way we eat. Discover what drives hunger, appetite, fullness, and food reward, and how the brain and body communicate throughout the process.
Module 3
Neuronutrients in the Nervous System
Follow nutrients all the way through the nervous system. Learn how nutrients and specific dietary patterns influence how someone thinks, acts, and feels.
Module 4
Neurobiology of Health & Disease
Learn why the same experience can lead to different outcomes in different people, why different health conditions can share underlying biology, and how health problems develop and persist over time. Understand where nutrition fits into these processes and where it doesn’t.
Module 5
Neuropsychology of Nutritional Behavior
Understand why knowing what to eat doesn’t mean someone can do it. Learn how the brain, nervous system, and lived experience can shape the way people eat and relate to food.
Module 6
Neuronutritional Evaluation
Learn how to put the pieces together. Know what to look for, what questions to ask, and how to make better sense of the connections between nutrition, brain and mental health, and nervous system function.
Flexible learning, on your schedule.
Each module contains lessons you can pause, rewind, and revisit as many times as you need. With no live lessons to attend, you can watch more when you have capacity, and slow down when you need a break.
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Module 1 — Introduction to Neuronutrition in Practice
Lesson 1 of 4 · Self-paced video
Reflective activities
Start planning for how you'll integrate nutritional neuroscience into your practice right away.
Private learning portal
Access the entire course online, from any device, anywhere, at any time.
Practice-ready resources
Access a growing library of professionally designed materials.
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We created the first and only Advanced Certificate in Nutritional Neuroscience to give you a new way to understand how the way we eat influences brain and mental health, and how the nervous system influences how we eat.
Timothy Frie, DMS(c), MS, CNE
Founder, National Center for Neuronutrition
Earn CE Credits
When you complete the Advanced Nutritional Neuroscience course, you will be awarded 20 continuing education (CE) credits by the National Academy of Neuronutrition.
The National Academy of Neuronutrition is accredited by the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists℠ (BCNS℠) to provide Nutrition Professional Continuing Education (NPCE) credits for Certified Nutrition Specialists® (CNS®).
The National Academy of Neuronutrition designates the Certificate in Advanced Nutritional Neuroscience activity/material for a maximum of 20 NPCE Credits.
National Academy of Neuronutrition is an Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy (IFNA) Approved Continuing Professional Education (CPEU) Provider.
Those who hold the Integrative and Functional Nutrition Certified Practitioner (IFNCP) credential are eligible to receive up to 20 IFNA CPEUs from this activity.
†Acceptance of continuing education credits earned by completing one of our courses or programs is determined solely by the policies of each certifying or licensing organization. We strongly recommend confirming applicability with your specific board or agency prior to enrollment. We cannot guarantee acceptance of CE/CPEU/CME hours by all organizations.
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Included with your tuition
50+ video lessons
Dozens of learning guides
Downloadable slides & transcripts
Practice-ready client tools
Interactive reflection exercises
1:1 support & office hours
20 verified CE contact hours†
Official digital certificate
Free lifetime directory listing
Advanced standing toward NANCP™ Certification
Personalized learning portal
On-demand access
Prefer to pay over time? Third-party financing is always available.
Split your tuition into smaller, scheduled payments.
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Flexible payment plans designed to fit your cash flow.
Subject to credit approval. We are not a lender. Options are presented during enrollment.
Start where you are.
Go as far as you want.
Compare the Certificate in Nutritional Neuroscience with NANCP™ Certification across the categories below.
| Category | Certificate in Nutritional Neuroscience | NANCP™ Certification |
|---|---|---|
Best for | Practitioners who want to learn the foundations of nutritional neuroscience and begin bringing them into their existing work | Practitioners who want comprehensive training in neuronutrition and to practice as a Neuronutrition Certified Practitioner |
Focus | Foundational science connecting nutrition, the nervous system, health, and behavior | Advanced neuronutrition education, evaluation, application, and practical integration |
Curriculum | 6 progressive units covering the foundations of nutritional neuroscience | Full NANCP curriculum, including Foundations, Applications, and Synthesis |
Application | Apply nutritional neuroscience within the work you already do | Develop and integrate a comprehensive neuronutrition approach within your scope of practice |
Credential | Certificate in Nutritional Neuroscience | NANCP™ professional certification |
Commitment | Flexible, self-paced introduction to the field | More comprehensive professional training and certification pathway |
Pathway | Certificate coursework provides advanced standing toward NANCP™ Certification | Complete pathway to earning and maintaining the NANCP™ credential, earning the Certificate along the way |
