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Certification Course

Nutrition and Health: Human Microbiome

Learn how to improve your health by balancing your gut health; how your microbiome, in conjunction with your diet, can improve normal gut function. Disorders such as IBS, obesity, and diabetes can be avoided by maintaining a healthy microbiome and eating habits.

In this course, you will learn :

How to explore the Microbiome
What effect microbiota have on your health.
Microbiota and healthy ageing
Diet, genes, and microbiota are all linked.
Diagnostics and microbial therapies
How academic knowledge of the microbiome is useful to policymakers, medical doctors, non-profit organisations, and industry

Syllabus :

Module 1: The human microbiome This module includes topics like: how to study the microbiome, microbiota for health and the human microbiome
Module 2: Early life microbiota development This module includes topics like: development of the microbiome, microbiome and health, life changing events, personal microbiota development
Module 3: Microbiota and Ageing This module includes topics like: healthy ageing, including centenarians, diet and longevity; and ageing related diseases such as immunescene
Module 4: Microbiota diet and disease Topics in this module include: nutrition, diet and genes and obesity
Module 5: Microbial therapies and diagnostics This module includes topics like: microbial therapies, personalized therapies and diagnostics.
Module 6: Applicability and societal impact This module includes topics like: applicability of the microbiome in medical therapy, pharmacy, nutritional companies, probiotic production and the food chain. We also go in to some examples of host microbiota interactions