Menopause in clinical practice: hormones, metabolism, brain and cardiometabolic health

This course...

is: an online live course

is for: nutritional therapy practitioners, nutritionists, dieticians, naturopaths, other health care providers and final year nutrition students interested in applying functional medicine approaches to health and well-being (i.e. exploring how nutrients, other foods and lifestyle factors influence the function of the body and how to apply findings in a person–centred manner that recognises individuals’ unique differences)

is led by: Christine Bailey MSc RNutr MBANT IFMCP, Registered Performance Nutritionist and Functional Medicine Practitioner

spans: 1 day

provides: ION CPD 5 hours [where a participant has been active on the webinar for 5 hours] , BANT CPD 5 hours, NNA CPD 5 hours

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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 estrabolome, 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.

By the end of the course, you will be able to

• 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

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About the presenter:

Christine Bailey MSc, BSc (Nutrition), PgDip IOPN
Registered Nutritionist (RNutr), Performance Nutritionist (BANT), Author, Breathwork practitioner, Trustee of ION

Christine Bailey is an award-winning Registered Nutritionist (RNutr), Performance Nutritionist, chef and author with over 20 years’ experience across the nutrition, fitness, food, supplement and health sectors. Christine is a qualified breathwork practitioner and runs online and in-person breathwork sessions.

Previously Director of Nutrition at an International Catering Company, Christine is one of the few nutritionists to have received two Catey Awards for her work in mental health and corporate wellbeing. With additional training from the Institute of Functional Medicine and the Institute of Performance Nutrition (IOPN), she is an experienced Functional Nutrition Practitioner working across both public and corporate sectors. Christine is a trustee of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition.

Christine is Head of Nutrition Education and Support for Metagenics UK & Ireland and a consultant for the food and health industry, working with national and international corporate clients alongside providing one-to-one clinical nutrition support. She also provides technical support for the testing laboratory Doctors Data.

She is a regular speaker at national and international nutrition and food industry conferences, and lectures in nutrition.
An established author of over 14 books, her titles include Five Weeks to Gut Health, The Brain Boost Diet, and her latest book The Personalised Nutrition Guide to Menopause. She also writes regularly for national health and fitness publications.

www.christinebailey.co.uk
@christinembailey
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-bailey-rnutr-bant-afcmp-26781820/