Aug 31, 2025  
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Health Sciences Catalog

HFN 551 - Evidence-Based Concepts in Integrative Nutrition


This online course will explore the underlying concepts of integrative nutrition, the practice of providing individualized medical nutrition therapy to optimize health, and treat complex chronic illnesses, through food and the judicious use of supplements. Such discussion will build on prior coursework, especially Macronutrients and Metabolic Regulation and Micronutrients and Functional Nutrition, to explore how nutrition can modulate major systems and functions including the gastrointestinal system, the immune system, the central nervous system, detoxification, oxidation and inflammation.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): Admission to Graduate Nutrition Program’s Integrative Nutrition Therapy Concentration and HFN 514 .

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)