What Will the FDN Course Teach me?


The Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® Certification Course will teach you:

  • How to stop chasing symptoms and focus on healing opportunities instead
  • Which lab tests uncover the root causes of most common health complaints
  • An investigative roadmap that leads you directly to malfunctions and blocking factors
  • How to interpret each lab on an individual basis and correlate with your client/patient
  • Communicating test results and interpretation to your client in plain English
  • Drugless protocols that are safe, potent, proven and professional
  • How to make big gains in tough cases and chronic stress related disorders
  • A business model that is both very exciting and very rewarding in every way

The FDN Certification Course provides training in functional lab assessments and patient intake methods that lead to highly individualized, targeted protocols. The goal of FDN is to build health and enhance performance, especially within the hormone, immune, digestive, detoxification and mucosal barrier systems.

The FDN course is open to all serious health professionals and puts incredible clinical tools right in your hands — plus the skills to use them. You’ll receive comprehensive training plus case management assistance on specific functional lab tests and protocols. As your functional assessment and interpretation skills mature, so shall your patients achieve favorable results. Many providers have built their reputation and business success upon what they learned in the FDN Course..

Functional Diagnostic Nutrition is based on…

  • Resolving chronic stress related disorders
  • Restoring steroidal hormone pathways
  • Restoring normal immune function
  • Restoring normal digestive function
  • Restoring normal detoxification function
  • Identifying and eliminating hidden internal stressors
  • Building a successful private-pay business

Learn how to find the underlying causes of…

  • Allergies, acne, and rosacea
  • Blood sugar problems
  • Depression and anxiety
  • Emotional fragility
  • Headaches and fogginess
  • Indigestion and bloating
  • Inflammation and pain
  • Insomnia and wakefulness
  • Low sex drive
  • PMS, skin, and hair problems
  • Fatigue and lethargy
  • Weight gain and weight loss
  • Muscle and joint pain
  • And many other consequences of the chronic stress response!

Gain a powerful understanding of functional lab testing for underlying causal factors such as…

  • Adrenal Fatigue
  • Poor nutrient breakdown and absorption
  • Pro-oxidative factors
  • Dysbiosis and gut malfunction
  • Hormone imbalances
  • Inflammatory state
  • Immunodeficiency
  • Sluggish liver and detoxification problems
  • Bacterial and yeast overgrowth
  • Antigenic overload and pathogenic conditions

The FDN Course will provide you with:

  • Ability to interpret lab test results from a functional standpoint
  • Ability to properly use bio-identical hormones
  • Ability to integrate FDN with Advanced Metabolic Typing and other disciplines
  • Ability to assess malfunctions and causal relationships
  • Ability to form valid impressions of patient’s best course of action
  • Latest information on safe, natural therapeutic protocols
  • Absolute confidence in your lab test interpretations
  • Continuous support and education
  • Lab resources for non-licensed providers
  • A business model that works long-distance with clients all over the globe
  • Convenience of an online and teleconference learning program
  • Personal lab test results & recommendations to restore or fine-tune your own steroidal hormone metabolic pathways, adrenal, immune, digestive and detoxification functions. You should feel great!


FDN Certification Course highlights:

  • Ten incredible modules, including full length webinars that focus on Functional Labs, How to interpret them and how to implement them into your practice
  • Twenty hours of power packed training with the Master of Patient Education, Reed Davis, plus over fifty:
    • Recorded presentations and interviews
    • Recorded training videos
    • Recorded training webinars
    • Recorded “intake sessions” with new public
    • Recorded “results & recommendations” consultations
  • FDN Protocols and Documentation developed by Reed Davis and William Wolcott, Author of “The Metabolic Typing Diet”
    • Electronic intake forms and patient templates
    • FDN test result interpretive guides and worksheets
    • FDN protocol guides
    • Built-in troubleshooting method to increase positive outcomes
    • Public education and communication materials
  • Interactive course features plenty of personal coaching
    • FDN professional staff to assist you all the way
    • Live “personal test results” session for your own lab test results - required
    • Live “practical exercise” with a sample client - required
    • Live “personal coaching” with your first two FDN Clients – required
    • Online mid-term and final exams – required
  • Case Management mentoring by the man and staff
  • FDN “How to” business development tools available
  • Lab Resources available for non-licensed practitioners
  • Everything required to learn & practice Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® plus a beautiful Certificate of Completion

Please see our FAQ page for answers to commonly asked questions.