Advanced Clinical Nutrition (ACN) Online Course

Functional Medicine Course

Functional Medicine Course

Price range: $1,999.00 through $2,599.00

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Treat root causes of chronic disease

  • Research-backed clinical protocols
  • Interpret labs with confidence
  • Self-paced online training
  • Expand your practice and income

Why Providers Add Clinical Nutrition to Their Practice

  • Improve patient outcomes
  • Address chronic inflammation and metabolic dysfunction
  • Understand nutrition-related lab abnormalities
  • Expand treatment options beyond symptom management

Research-Supported Treatment

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Derek Biesheuvel, PTPhysical Therapist - 20 yrs of practice
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Advanced Clinical Nutrition Course (ACN)

Treat Chronic Disease at the Root Cause — Not the Symptoms

The Missing Piece in Modern Healthcare

The Advanced Clinical Nutrition (ACN) Course is a comprehensive training program designed to teach healthcare providers how to identify and treat the underlying causes of chronic disease using clinical nutrition, lab analysis, and targeted treatment protocols.

This is not basic nutrition education.

This is a clinical system that transforms how you evaluate, diagnose, and treat patients.

Why Most Providers Struggle with Chronic Conditions

Traditional healthcare training focuses on:

  • Symptoms
  • Diagnoses
  • Medications

But chronic disease is rarely caused by one issue.

It is driven by:

  • Inflammation
  • Nutrient deficiencies
  • Hormonal imbalances
  • Metabolic dysfunction
  • Toxic load

Without addressing these root causes, patients often:

  • Fail to improve long-term
  • Cycle through treatments
  • Continue to decline

There is a well-documented nutrition education gap in medical training, leaving providers underprepared to use nutrition as a primary treatment tool.

What You Will Learn

The ACN course provides a step-by-step system to evaluate and treat patients using clinical nutrition.

Advanced Clinical Nutrition Principles

  • Basic and advanced nutrition
  • Biochemistry and nutrient metabolism
  • How nutrition impacts disease processes

Root-Cause Diagnosis

  • Identify underlying drivers of chronic conditions
  • Understand how inflammation and deficiencies affect the body
  • Learn differential diagnosis from a nutritional perspective

Laboratory Testing & Interpretation

  • Order the correct lab tests
  • Interpret lab results with clinical precision
  • Connect lab findings to real patient symptoms

You will learn how to translate lab data into actionable treatment plans, a critical skill missing in most training programs.

Nutrition-Focused Physical Examination (NFPE)

  • Perform clinical nutrition assessments
  • Identify deficiencies through physical signs
  • Integrate findings into treatment planning

Build Effective Treatment Plans

  • Create structured protocols
  • Use nutrition and supplementation strategically
  • Address chronic conditions at their source

The course teaches how to develop scientific, repeatable treatment plans that target root causes rather than symptoms.

Conditions You Will Learn to Treat

The ACN system is designed to help providers treat:

  • Chronic pain
  • Fibromyalgia
  • Autoimmune conditions
  • Allergies
  • Metabolic disorders
  • Inflammatory conditions

These are the types of cases that often fail traditional care but respond when root causes are addressed.

What Is Included

  • 18+ hours of video-based training
  • Downloadable evaluation forms and protocols
  • Patient handouts and diet plans
  • Clinical reference materials
  • 1-year access to the course
  • 20 CEU credits

The curriculum is designed to function like five college-level courses combined into one system.

Who This Course Is For

The ACN course is designed for:

  • Physical therapists
  • Chiropractors
  • Massage therapists
  • Functional medicine practitioners
  • Healthcare providers of all levels

No advanced scientific background is required.

The course takes you from foundational knowledge to advanced clinical application.

Why This Course Was Created

Dr. Joseph Jacobs developed the ACN course after recognizing a major problem:

  • Patients were not improving long-term
  • Chronic conditions were not resolving
  • Traditional approaches were incomplete

After integrating clinical nutrition and lab-based evaluation:

  • Patient outcomes dramatically improved
  • Success rates increased significantly
  • Chronic conditions became treatable

This course was built to give providers the exact system that changed those outcomes.

What Makes ACN Different

Most nutrition courses teach:

  • General dietary advice

ACN teaches:

  • Clinical application
  • Lab-driven decision making
  • Root-cause treatment strategies

This is the difference between:

  • Knowing nutrition
  • And using nutrition to treat disease

A System That Integrates with ASTR

The ACN course is designed to work alongside:

  • ASTR soft tissue treatment
  • ASTR tools and protocols
  • Chronic pain treatment systems

Together, they address both:

  • Structural dysfunction (ASTR)
  • Internal drivers like inflammation and metabolism (ACN)

This creates a complete, integrated treatment model.

Results Providers Experience

Providers who complete ACN often report:

  • Improved patient outcomes
  • Ability to treat complex conditions
  • Increased confidence in diagnosis
  • Higher patient satisfaction
  • Practice growth and increased income

The goal is simple:

Give you the ability to solve problems other providers cannot.

Self-Paced, Flexible Learning

  • 100% online
  • Self-paced format
  • Designed for busy professionals
  • Immediate application in clinical practice

This allows you to start implementing what you learn right away.

Why Advanced Clinical Nutrition Matters

Chronic diseases account for the majority of global health issues, and many are driven by lifestyle and nutritional factors.

Without proper training in nutrition:

  • Providers miss root causes
  • Treatments remain incomplete
  • Outcomes are limited

ACN fills this gap.

Start Treating at a Higher Level

If you are ready to:

  • Move beyond symptom-based care
  • Understand the true drivers of disease
  • Deliver long-term results
  • Transform your clinical outcomes

The Advanced Clinical Nutrition Course gives you the system to do it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I need a medical background?
No. The course is designed for all levels, from beginners to experienced providers.

Is this course practical or theoretical?
It is highly practical, focused on real-world application.

Can I use this with my current practice?
Yes. It integrates easily into existing clinical workflows.

Does this help with chronic disease?
Yes. It is specifically designed to address root causes of chronic conditions.

How long do I have access?
You receive one full year of access to the course materials.

Great news! I developed the Advanced Clinical Nutrition (ACN) course to help you comprehensively address and treat these conditions with your patients. ACN will take your practice and treatment outcome to the next level by providing effective, long term pain relief solutions that address the true source of patients problems.

Regardless of whether you have a scientific background or not, this class will take you from a basic understanding of the human body into an Advanced Clinical Nutrition! Course material covers the basic human body anatomy and physiology, basic nutrition, advanced nutrition and advanced differential diagnoses/pathology. It also covers nutrition focused physical examination and learning how to order proper laboratory testing. You will learn how to come up with scientific treatment plans. The plan, which includes nutrition and natural supplementation, will address common diagnoses and/or chronic conditions at the root source of the problem.

This course includes the most up to date scientific findings regarding treatment plans that address the root cause of chronic conditions and diseases and covers five college level courses.
  1. Self-paced online training
  2. Breakthrough results
  3. Easy to follow protocols
  4. Lab test analysis & interpretation
  5. Treat difficult conditions such as chronic pain, fibromyalgia, autoimmune diseases, allergies, etc.
  6. Treat the root cause of the chronic diseases
  7. Become a trusted and reputable healthcare provider who can provide consistent long term outcomes for patients
  8. Increase income
  9. 20 CEU’s
  1. Basic and advanced anatomy & physiology
  2. Biochemistry
  3. Basic and advanced nutrition
  4. Pathology
  5. Diseases differential diagnosis
  6. Implementing nutrition focus physical examination (NFPE)
  7. Ordering proper laboratory testing and interpreting the findings
  8. Treat the root cause of chronic conditions utilizing the most up-to-date scientific findings
  9. Come up with the proper treatment plan utilizing nutrition and natural supplementation
  10. Curriculum link >
  1. 18+ hours of video powerpoint presentation
  2. Downloadable evaluation forms, diet plans, powerpoint presentations and patient handouts
  3. Laminated summary protocols for clinic
  4. 1 year access to online course
  5. 20 CEU’s*

Anyone can sign up for ACN course, from those that do not have a scientific background to doctors with medical degrees. This course provides everyone with information on advanced clinical nutrition and treating chronic diseases at its source. In order to be certified you have to meet the certification requirements >
  1. Before I implemented the nutrition evaluation & treatment, I was not getting good results long term with chronic conditions/ autoimmune disease patients and  I was not able to provide long term pain relief.
  2. After implementing the nutrition evaluation and bloodwork within treatment, my success rates are in the 90-95% range; even with difficult cases.
  3. Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes / heart diseases/ depression/ Alzheimer/Fibromyalgia kill 41 million people each year, equivalent to 71% of all deaths globally
  4. These numbers are alarming and are an indication of a failed healthcare system
  5. Some of the problems with the current healthcare education system:
    1. There is a nutrition education gap in medical schools. Comprehensive nutrition evaluation and treatment are not part of the medical education curriculum
    2. Current medical training focuses on relieving the symptoms. We are trained to ask the wrong questions like “what are patients symptoms?” instead of asking “why is my patient experiencing this condition so that I can treat the root cause of the problem?” Even if providers ask the correct questions, they are usually not able to find the answer because they lack the practice and knowledge it takes to get to the answer.
  6. I decided to learn about nutrition because I wanted to improve patient outcomes. I read 100’s of books, took seminars and reviewed 1000’s of research and medical articles and I was not able to find a one single comprehensive course that could help me implement a nutrition based evaluation and treatment protocol with patients. This is why I developed the ACN course. I wanted it to be an A to Z course that would cover everything from basic science and nutrition to advanced laboratory testing and treatment.

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Weight 0.8 lbs
Dimensions 13 × 10 × 1 in
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