CCWFN Module 1: Digestion, Blood Sugar Handling, Musculoskeletal

The International Foundation for Nutrition and Health (IFNH) has offered our Certified Clinician of Whole Food Nutrition (CCWFN) certification program to licensed health practitioners and provides enhanced knowledge of foundational nutrition related to the physiology of nutrition and biochemistry of the body since 1998. The CCWFN is a provider direct, learner-paced online certification program based upon extensive research into the key factors of a successful nutritional practice by building patient compliance and/or incorporating whole food nutrition into an existing wellness practice.

The purpose of the CCWFN program is to guide the practitioner to a better understanding of balanced body chemistry through the examination of foundational nutrition. The program consists of many hands-on nutritional exams and practice workshops which were used extensively as part of the training process for doctors in medical schools until the 1950s.

Our mission is to instruct health practitioners on how to utilize the scientific research and therapeutic use of whole food nutrition and to educate, through the practitioners, the lay public n the functional perspective and principles of effective whole food nutrition and lifestyle that are advantageous to good health.  Content includes the application of scientific knowledge to patient care and therapeutic interpersonal relationship skills related to body chemistry.  The program is heavily steeped in practice management and patient implementation tools.

Students will learn:

• About the early pioneers in nutritional biochemistry
• practical endocrinology and the relationships between different glands
• the connection between dental decay and physical degeneration based on human studies
• the ‘Pure Food and Drug Act’ from 1906
• difference between biochemistry vs chemical therapy
• why the calcium:phosphorus ratio is an important measuring stick for health
• what is unfavorable towards the development of nutritional deficiencies that adversely affect the body’s health
• understand the critical need for proper hydrochloric acid
• several digestive reflex points including hydrochloric acid reflex point, pancreatic enzyme reflex point, and Murphy’s Sign reflex point
• practice digestive system tests to identify and define digestive dysfunction

1. Glucose Management/Sugar Handling issues (physiology, assessment, management)

Students will learn:

• review function and not pathology
• the 10 most common reasons for medical office visits and how connected to sugar handling issues
• how one teaspoon of sugar interferes with the body’s metabolism
• hormonal control and abnormalities of blood glucose
• understand how sugar depresses posterior pituitary response
• how disease is a process, not an entity
• signs of hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia and how long standing sugar handling issues stress the endocrine system
• blood pressure indicator to address vitamin B complex deficiency
• understand the ricochet romance between the pancreas, adrenal, and liver with sugar metabolism
• several blood sugar reflex points including inguinal ligament palpation, liver reflex point, and several adrenal support tests
• practice sugar handling tests to identify and pancreas, adrenal, and liver dysfunction

1. Musculoskeletal (physiology, assessment, management)

Students will learn:

• how musculoskeletal issues represent the impact of today’s lifestyle and diet
• an upset body chemistry equates to inflammation and calcium metabolism issues
• understand calcium metabolism and how co-factors enable calcium to work
• two glands which control the amount of calcium in the bloodstream
• importance of an ideal 2.5:1 calcium:phosphorus ratio
• systemic alkalinity and acidosis, review pH and how it reflects on body chemistry
• difference between two types of calcium – ionized and non-ionized
• sports nutrition and the special dietary needs of sports activities
• musculoskeletal tests including tissue calcium test, essential fatty acid test, neuro-lingual test, and breath holding test
• practice musculoskeletal system tests to identify and define calcium metabolism and essential fatty acid deficiencies

International Foundation for Nutrition and Health is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

In order to obtain the CCWFN 100 certification hours for this program the learners must complete the following:

• Learner must be a licensed practitioner: MD, ND, NP, LAc, DC, DDS, RN, RD, DO, PA-C, BSN, etc or have an advanced graduate degree in a related nutrition topic
• Complete the three program modules consecutively
• Complete 77 contact hours of required course material, lecture slides, live weekly teleconference calls (recording available for one week), and post exams
• NOTE: The weekly teleconferences are review lectures for Modules 1 & 2 only, with Q&A time for mentoring.
• Complete summative evaluation following completion of each modules
• All exams must be passed with at least an 85% grade point (75% grade point for CTWFN participants)
• This program must be completed within 30 months of signing the enrollment form of Module 1. If each Module (Module 1-3) is not completed within 10 month of the enrollment form for that particular Module, a $100 reactivation fee will be required to further access this education activity in the learning portal. You have 10 months to complete each Module independently and they must be completed consecutively. This gives an additional 3 months to complete the module.
• Balance paid in full for all three modules. Only Modules 1 & 2 for CTWFN participants need to be paid in full.

Investment includes: tuition, contact hours, transcript, certificate of completion, required textbooks, professional membership, live weekly teleconference lecture calls (Sept – June; recording available for one week following live lecture call), enrollment fee, shipping & handling, technical support.