Menopause in clinical practice: hormones, metabolism, brain and cardiometabolic health
EVENT DATE:
10 June
2026
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DURATION:
1
day
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CPD:
ION
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EVENT TYPE:
Live,
Online
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LECTURER:
Christine
Bailey
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Continue your professional development with our Menopause in clinical practice: hormones, metabolism, brain and cardiometabolic health course
Are your midlife clients experiencing unexplained weight gain, mood changes, brain fog, sleep disruption, or rising concerns about longer-term cardiovascular and cognitive health? This one day course examines a whole-body, functional approach to the menopause transition equipping you with the clinical knowledge, testing tools, and evidence-based strategies to assess and address its multi-system impact in practice.
Menopause is not simply a reproductive event it is a profound, whole-body endocrine and metabolic transition driven by the decline of oestradiol and progesterone. These hormones influence virtually every system: the cardiovascular, metabolic, neurological, and gastrointestinal systems are all profoundly affected as their levels fall.
For practitioners, this complexity presents a challenge. Many women present with overlapping, multi-system complaints that don’t fit neatly into a single diagnosis. Supporting them effectively requires both a strong mechanistic understanding of what is changing and why, and a practical toolkit of evidence-based dietary, lifestyle, and supplementation strategies.
This one-day CPD course takes a functional, systems-based approach to menopause, beginning with the hormonal transition and the far-reaching consequences of hormone decline across the body and brain. It then moves through four key clinical domains:
- Metabolic health: insulin resistance, weight, sarcopenia, and mitochondrial function
- Cardiometabolic health: lipid changes, ApoB, blood pressure, endothelial function, and cardiovascular risk
- Brain health: mood, cognition, anxiety, and oestrogen-neurotransmitter interactions
- Gut health: the estrobolome, microbiome shifts, motility changes and systemic impacts
The course includes a case study integrating perimenopause presentation with Urinary hormone testing, and guidance of key supplementation support.
Course details
What will I learn?
- Explain the physiology of the menopause transition, including the impact of multiple interacting hormone changes
- Identify and assess the key metabolic changes at menopause, including insulin resistance, visceral fat accumulation, sarcopenia, and mitochondrial dysfunction, and apply evidence-based dietary and lifestyle strategies
- Evaluate cardiometabolic risk in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women using advanced markers (ApoB, Lp(a), fasting insulin, hsCRP, homocysteine) and apply targeted nutritional interventions
- Understand the neurological and psychological impact of hormone decline and select appropriate nutrition and supplement strategies to support mood, cognition, sleep, and brain health
- Recognise gut microbiome and gastrointestinal changes at menopause, including the role of the estrobolome, and apply clinical nutrition strategies to support gut integrity and motility
- Understand the role of functional testing and how to integrate them into a client support
Full Agenda
Who is this course suitable for?
- Qualified nutritional therapy practitioners
- Nutritionists
- Dieticians
- Naturopaths
- Other qualified healthcare practitioners
- Final year nutrition students will also be welcome
With
Christine Bailey
Performance Nutritionist, Chef and Author
Christine Bailey is an award-winning Performance Nutritionist, Chef and Author with over 20 years of experience in Nutrition, Fitness and Corporate Wellbeing.
Christine Bailey
With additional training from the Institute of Functional Medicine and the Institute of Optimum Performance Nutrition (IOPN) Christine is a well-known lecturer and speaker in Nutrition. She has a successful private clinic and supports a wide range of clients. She is part of the practitioner support team at Nutri Link Ltd and supports practitioners on case studies. She is author of over 14 health and recipe books including the Five Weeks to Gut Health, The Personalised Nutrition Guide to Menopause (due November 2025) Brain Boost Diet, My Kids Can’t Eat That and Functional Nutrition Cookbook. Christine is also a journalist for many health and fitness magazines and regularly appears in the media including BBC programmes on stress and teenage mental health.
Course information
Cost | £130 |
Dates | Wednesday 10th June 2026, at 10:00am – 4.30pm |
CPD | ION CPD 5 hours |
Study mode | Live online course, with the ability to ask some questions (within set times) |
Materials | PDF of course presentation upon registration |
Recording | Edited recap post course, available to view up to 20 times |
Course timeline
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Course materials released week prior to course date
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Edited course recap video released within two to three days post course
On-demand course version released within three weeks post course
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CPD
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