Menopause in clinical practice: hormones, metabolism, brain and cardiometabolic health
DURATION:
5
Hours
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CPD:
BANT
NNA
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EVENT TYPE:
VOD
Event
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LECTURER:
Christine
Bailey
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DURATION:
5
Hours
-
CPD:
BANT
NNA
-
EVENT TYPE:
VOD
Event
-
LECTURER:
Christine
Bailey
-
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 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
Course trailer
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?
- Nutritional therapy practitioners
- Nutritionists
- Dieticians
- Naturopaths
- Other health care provider
- Final year nutrition students
Lecturer
Course information
Cost | £99.00 |
CPD | BANT CPD 5 hours |
Study mode | On-demand |
Materials | PDF of course presentation upon registration |
Recording | You can access the course up to 20 times |
Course timeline
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Good to know
About this on-demand recording
- The speaker is not present on this recording and you will not be able to ask them questions but you will be able to see the recorded Q and A sessions.
- This course was recorded in June 2026. All recordings are removed approximately one year after they are recorded so that we can ensure our courses contain up to date information. You will be able to access the course up to 12 times before the materials are taken down.
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CPD
- Participation in an ION CPD course forms part of a practitioner’s or individual’s ongoing learning. It does not qualify a non-clinically trained practitioner or individual to work in a clinical setting. Individual’s boundaries of safe work, advice or practice are primarily determined by their formal qualifications and related personal insurance.
- This on-demand recording is recognised by BANT and the NNA for 5 hrs CPD
- Non BANT or NNA registered practitioners may use this course for their CPD depending on the requirements and guidance of their professional body.
- ION cannot provide certificates for online courses
Additional learning
The presenter does provide additional training to be able to work with eating disorders and will offset the price of ION’s course against their post graduate eating disorder programme
