Core Learning Module 1 introduces the foundations of preventative, integrative and anti-ageing medicine as a model for early detection, prevention and treatment of chronic age-related diseases, and to restore health and overall wellbeing.

• Understand anti-ageing medicine and how we age
• Define how our biochemistry, organ function chronic disease and lifestyle factors accelerate the ageing process
• Appreciate the role of anti-ageing medicine as an integrative tool combining nutritional therapy, supplementation, lifestyle changes, hormonal and other pathology testing and the use of anti-ageing treatment protocols
• Understand the integration of theories of ageing and the processes behind ageing including inflammation, depletion and wear and tear
• Define and understand the role of hormones identifying the biochemical process of hormones in the body
• Review hormone testing and treatment protocols using nutrient supplementation, lifestyle and dietary changes

• UNIT 1: The Foundations
• UNIT 2: Hormones
• UNIT 3: Hormone Optimisation
• UNIT 4: Inflammation & Stress
• UNIT 5: Theories of Ageing
• UNIT 6: Diagnostic Options & Functional Medicine Testing

• Introduction and Welcome
• Introduction to preventative, integrative and anti-ageing medicine, why and how we age
• Conventional medicine vs preventative, integrative and anti-ageing medicine
• Overview of the theories of ageing
• Overview of treatment concepts in preventative, integrative and anti-ageing medicine
• An introduction to hormones and their actions on ageing
• Hormone deficiency or excess
• Hormone optimisation, nutraceuticals and lifestyle
• The role of inflammation
• The biochemistry of glycation
• Methylation and detoxification
• Age-related disease and oxidative stress
• Stress and its effect on ageing
• An overview of functional medicine laboratory

• Short quiz/reflection at the end of each unit
• Final assessment at the end of each CLM
• Certificate of Completion after all the requirements of the CLM have been fulfilled