Confident First Steps — Smarter Next Steps — Better Outcomes

Discover assessment parameters that uncover the missing pieces in your client’s health puzzle

Master comprehensive evaluation techniques that create premium service opportunities and deliver breakthrough results

The Functional Nutrition Intake System:

Patient Story to Root-Cause Approach

23-Hr Online Training for Healthcare Professionals

*** On-Demand Training ***

Every time we help clients achieve better outcomes, we’re also building the foundation for practice growth and premium services!

The Assessment Gap is Real!

Many practitioners feel like something is missing when clients see some results but struggle to achieve full symptom resolution
Traditional assessment focuses primarily on food intake and basic lab results, missing critical root-cause factors
Comprehensive assessment creates opportunities for premium service packages worth thousands of dollars
Clients underestimate the depth of interconnections underlying their health challenges until you show them

Functional Nutrition Assessment Is a Skill Mastered Through Comprehensive Training and Mentorship

The IFMNT assessment dives deep, leaving no stone unturned. The unique makeup of each patient is considered, along with both internal (mind-body, physiologic imbalances, and stress response) and external (physical, social, and environmental) factors that affect optimal function and overall health.

Functional Medicine professionals recognize that nutritional status depends not just on what you eat, but also on how you digest and assimilate food, and what factors may increase nutrient needs above normal. By assessing for underlying root-cause issues and addressing patient care from a systems biology framework, they create personalized recommendations that deliver results.

Yes, you can dramatically improve client outcomes and create premium service opportunities, if you just know what to assess!

Here’s What You’ll Master:

Past medical/dental and pertinent situational history including injuries and traumas (as far back as prenatal)
Dietary intake and exercise/movement assessment
Social/emotional influences
Medications, supplements, and/or botanicals (past and present)
Current Signs/Symptoms assessment
Oral Health evaluation
Environmental/chemical toxic exposure assessment
Digestive/gut health issues
Hormone imbalance issues
Lifestyle balance and stress-management
Toxic burden assessment
Readiness for change evaluation
Nutrigenomics 101 and genetic implications
The Nutrition-Focused Physical Exam
FN Intake Questionnaire Virtual Practicum
Real patient case study from assessment to support
43 handouts, some ready to customize for your practice
9 practice exercises to solidify your learning
Over 300 content-rich slides

The conventional approach to nutritional assessment isn’t delivering the outcomes our clients need. Despite our best efforts with basic intake forms and standard protocols, many clients plateau.

It’s Time to Assess More Deeply!

The Reality

Assessment is where the magic begins. If you’re just starting in Functional Nutrition, this training represents the beginning of a meaningful journey to a new level of practice. You’ll be empowered with a greatly expanded knowledge base, skill set, and toolbox to become the most effective practitioner you have ever been.

Meanwhile, if comprehensive assessment can uncover the missing pieces in your client’s health puzzle and create opportunities for premium services, then surely these skills can dramatically improve your practice outcomes and financial success. The highest level functional medicine practitioners know that deep assessment is the foundation of everything that follows.

When clients see only partial results, comprehensive assessment gives you the tools to uncover what’s been missed. This is where root-cause analysis, systems biology approaches, and personalized recommendations come in to offer a truly comprehensive solution set.

You don’t have to be a functional nutrition expert to benefit from deeper assessment skills, but the more comprehensive your understanding of root-cause assessment, the better positioned you’ll be to offer the most effective and personalized recommendations that can make a life-changing difference for those you serve!

Who Would Benefit from This Course?

This course is steeped in science and medical nutrition therapy (MNT) and therefore is only open to healthcare professionals (doctors/nurses, chiropractors and nutritionists) who have MNT in their scope of practice in the region they provide services. Dietetic Interns as well as students with evidence of being in a full-time 4-yr nutrition degree program with a clinical component also qualify.

Thirty years ago, my functional medicine mentor opened my eyes to nutrition beyond conventional training. This discovery transformed my career and life. Today, my clients regularly tell me, “No one else has ever told me this,” and “I feel better than I have in years!”

After building a 6-figure practice using IFMNT (Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy), I founded Next Level Functional Nutrition nearly 20 years ago. Through this international training initiative, my team of experts and I have taught thousands of practitioners to incorporate IFMNT into their practices.

My mission: elevate nutrition as the cornerstone of health while helping colleagues achieve the respect and success they deserve. As an award-winning author, speaker, and consultant to leading functional medicine centers, I’m proud to pioneer this global healthcare transformation.

Join me and discover how IFMNT can transform your practice and amplify your impact.

See What Others Are Saying

Kerry Mitchell RDN, LD, CLT

Susan teaches us what we thought we would be learning as a dietitian in school. She fills in the blanks of what is missing in our training and how we can truly be the nutrition expert through IFMNT.

Kristin McKie Bergeson, MPH, RDN, LD

Who knew thyroid health could be so complex? This class opens you up to very exciting new ways to help people feel better and become healthier!

Kate Ruley, MEd, RD, CSSD

Susan Allen’s Functional Medicine Nutrition program provides an insightful look into the burgeoning world of integrative nutrition. Whether you are a clinical nutritionist/dietitian or a specialist in another field you will find the information presented in this course invaluable

Here’s The Truth

Our population is invested in health and disease prevention more than ever before. Many are looking past the conventional medical paradigm to a broader level of support offered in Functional Medicine which encompasses nutrition, lifestyle, and complementary therapies. Without enough qualified clinicians trained in these modalities, the public is left to the internet and those less qualified for advice.

It’s time we expand beyond our conventional training to the fuller aspects of integrative and functional care.

Ultimately, the knowledge you will gain in our courses here at NLFN has the potential to raise you to the top tier of practitioners with the highest ability to help clients achieve their health goals. With this, you’ll also have a proven model for amazing success and career satisfaction. It’s a win-win all around!

Don’t let gaps in functional nutrition knowledge limit your impact!

The Functional Nutrition Intake System:

Patient Story to Root-Cause Approach

23-Hr Online Training for Healthcare Professionals

*** On-Demand Training ***

On-Demand Training Access

✅ 23 hours of training recorded from our most recent live series

✅ Access to our private discussion forum for questions and support

✅ 6-month access (extensions available)

Important for RDNs: This on-demand training is not eligible for CPE credit logging.

💡 Your purchase of this training will be credited toward enrollment in the next live offering of this same program—where updated content is provided and CPE hours may be logged. You would simply pay the difference in tuition at that time.

Why start now?

Get a head start on the material, begin applying what you learn immediately, and come into the live training prepared to go deeper, ask better questions, and get more value from the experience.