Explore how nutrition and lifestyle relate to mental wellbeing, and develop your understanding of ketosis — from food choices and metabolic processes to monitoring progress and reintroducing foods.
Understand the principles of ketosis and the nutrition and lifestyle factors explored in relation to mental wellbeing.
100% Online and self-paced
12 months’ access to course materials
Understand what ketosis is, why it happens and how it fits into the broader conversation about nutrition and mental health.
This course explores the foundations of a ketogenic approach, including food quality, fats, hormones, supplements and monitoring ketones. You’ll also examine lifestyle factors such as sleep, sunlight, meal timing and stress.
Later modules bring these topics together through food selection, progress tracking, reintroduction and cyclical ketosis, helping you understand the considerations involved in a longer-term approach.
Begin your exploration of mental health, metabolic nutrition and ketosis with an introduction to the course.
Lessons covered in this module include:
– How to define microbiota and microbiome
– An understanding of the size of the microbiome and the number of microbiota housed within the human body
– Decoding the difference between eukaryotes and prokaryotes
– How bacteria are grouped: aerobic, anaerobic and fermentation
– Describing ecological theory
Explore what mental health means and the factors that can influence mental wellbeing.
Topics covered:
What is mental health?
Factors that can affect mental health.
Lessons covered in this module include:
– Comparing anaerobic versus aerobic respiration
– Understanding how bacteria divide and multiply
– The differences between eukaryotes versus prokaryotes
– Endogenous and exogenous infections
– Susceptibility to infection
– How bacteria evades the host immune system
Explore ketosis in the context of our ancestors’ lives before looking at how the body enters this metabolic state.
Topics covered:
When ketosis was required by our ancestors.
How to get into ketosis.
Consider modern-day health challenges and explore the practical foundations of recognising and monitoring ketosis.
Topics covered:
Diseases in modern society.
Understanding ketosis.
Testing for ketones.
What is keto flu?
Lessons covered in this module include:
– A classification of microorganisms
– Firmicutes and Bacteroides — their role in health and disease
– How diet and the environment might affect gut health through the modification of the microbiota
Explore supplements discussed in the course, alongside minerals, soil health and questions around glyphosate exposure.
Topics covered:
Examples of keto supplement products.
Considerations when choosing supplements.
The state of our soil.
Minerals.
Discussion of glyphosate and its effects.
Changing Habits Peak Performance supplements.
Take a closer look at keto snack ingredient lists and the ingredients used in these products.
Topics covered:
Examining keto snack ingredient lists.
Explore why ketosis occurs and learn about the endocrine system, with a focus on leptin and leptin resistance.
Topics covered:
Why ketosis happens.
The endocrine system.
Leptin.
Leptin resistance.
Explore the course’s discussion of natural saturated fats, cholesterol and medicines such as statins.
Topics covered:
Natural saturated fat.
Cholesterol.
Medicines such as statins.
Look beyond dietary choices to explore daily habits and environmental factors discussed in relation to health and wellbeing.
Topics covered:
Sunrise and sunshine.
Sleep.
Grounding.
Meal timing.
Stress.
Examine specific food categories and ingredients, alongside an introduction to the microbiome within the context of the course.
Topics covered:
Nuts and spices.
Sweeteners.
Fermented foods.
The microbiome.
Lessons covered in this module include:
– Global projects involved in understanding human health and the microbiota/microbiome.
– The advantages and pitfalls of DNA sequencing to identify microbial species
– The microbiome and the future of medicine — Important questions that need to be answered
– Technological resources that are needed to move forward to fully comprehend the complexity of the human-microbial interaction and interface
Bring together the practical steps discussed in the course, from choosing foods and understanding macros to recognising signs of ketosis.
Topics covered:
Age-related considerations.
Steps towards entering ketosis.
Counting macronutrients.
Looking beyond food intake and body weight.
Signs of ketosis.
Food quality.
Foods included in the course’s ketogenic approach.
Explore ways to monitor your experience, review your habits and observe your response when foods are reintroduced.
Topics covered:
Tracking your progress.
Principles of a healthy ketogenic lifestyle.
Food reintroduction.
Recognising how individual foods affect you.
Explore cyclical ketosis and practical considerations for eating out, navigating disruptions and returning to your routine.
Topics covered:
Cyclical ketosis.
Eating out.
Getting back into a routine after a setback.
The Mental Health, Metabolic Nutrition and Ketosis course is delivered entirely online, allowing you to study from home and fit your learning around your commitments.
You’ll have 12 months’ access to revisit the material as you work through the course.
Develop your understanding of ketosis, nutrition and the lifestyle factors connected with mental wellbeing.
This is an educational course. It explores the principles and practical considerations of ketosis rather than providing an individualised meal plan.
No. The course is delivered entirely online.
No. The course provides education, not diagnosis or individual treatment. If you are considering ketosis to manage a medical or mental health condition, work with an appropriately qualified healthcare professional. Do not change prescribed medication based on course content.
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