This course provides a comprehensive exploration of the supplement market and equips learners with the skills to determine appropriate clinical use. With countless companies and often similar-looking products, we will guide you through what to use, when, and why. You’ll learn to select evidence-informed supplements for common health concerns, including inflammation, cardiovascular disease, and hormone imbalance, while discerning between multiple formulations for each.
The course covers dosing strategies for both maintenance and therapeutic purposes and provides guidance on choosing between nutraceuticals, botanicals, and homeopathics. Students will gain practical insight into product selection and protocol development, ensuring safe and effective application in clinical practice.
Hands-on learning is emphasized, with product samples provided, allowing for real-world experience in creating individualized supplement protocols. By the end of the course, participants will be confident in designing and implementing supplement strategies that support optimal patient outcomes.
Recommended text: Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine by Michael Murray ND & Joseph Pizzorno ND
Baljinder Chhoker is a respected educator and consultant with over 20 years of experience in the natural health industry. With a Bachelor of Science from the University of Waterloo and a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine diploma from CCNM, he has built an extensive career in practitioner education, supplement consulting, and clinical training. A former faculty member at CCNM and instructor at IHN Toronto and Mississauga, Baljinder now shares his expertise through the Continuing Education course Supplementation in Clinical Practice (CESCP).
Learn when supplementation is useful, design efficient protocols, choose the right supplement from various modalities to prove the best patient outcome.
This course will enable participants to:
• Understand why and when supplementation is clinically important.
• Prescribe minimal supplements to achieve maximal therapeutic effect.
• Select appropriately between nutraceuticals, botanicals, and homeopathics for a variety of health concerns.
• Establish professional accounts and contacts with leading supplement suppliers to support clinical practice.
After completing this 9 week course, students/practitioners will be confident in:
• Differentiating between similar-looking supplements and select the most appropriate products for a variety of health conditions.
• Determining dosing strategies based on maintenance and therapeutic requirements.
• Developing general supplement protocols for clients, while knowing when and how to individualize protocols to meet specific needs.
DATE: Tuesday, September 8, 2026
This initial lecture introduces you to the world of supplements and the variety of tools and modalities available at your disposal.
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This session establishes fertility literacy as an essential extension of holistic nutrition practice, especially for women’s health.
DATE: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
This lecture introduces learners to the core supplements that form the basis of most wellness and therapeutic protocols.
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Overall Takeaway:
A systems-based understanding of vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, probiotics, and digestive enzymes enables practitioners to build strong foundational protocols and determine what to use, how it works, and when it is most effective.
DATE: Tuesday, September 22, 2026
This lecture introduces learners to functional nutrition tools that support both daily vitality and enhanced physical performance.
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Overall Takeaway:
Functional nutrition provides targeted tools that can enhance daily vitality, physical performance, recovery, and resilience when selected and applied strategically according to an individual’s needs and goals.
DATE: Tuesday, September 29, 2026
This lecture introduces learners to the interconnected systems of digestion, detoxification, and elimination.
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Overall Takeaway:
Optimal detoxification depends on healthy digestion, efficient liver function, and effective elimination. Supporting the gut–liver axis and natural detox pathways provides a sustainable, functional approach to reducing toxic burden and improving overall health.
DATE: Tuesday, October 6, 2026
This lecture guides learners through the role of targeted supplementation in supporting cardiovascular and metabolic health, with an emphasis on prevention, risk reduction, and integrative care.
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Overall Takeaway:
Targeted supplementation can play a valuable role in supporting cardiovascular and metabolic health by improving lipid balance, blood sugar regulation, vascular function, and long-term resilience when integrated into a comprehensive wellness strategy.
DATE: Tuesday, October 13, 2026
This lecture introduces learners to the role of targeted supplementation in managing inflammatory processes, tissue injury, and degenerative bone and joint conditions.
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Overall Takeaway:
A systems-based approach to musculoskeletal supplementation helps reduce inflammation, improve injury recovery, support joint function, and strengthen bone health, promoting both symptom relief and long-term structural resilience.
DATE: Tuesday, October 20, 2026
This lecture introduces learners to the interconnected nature of chronic stress, sleep disruption, and immune system dysregulation, emphasizing how imbalance in one area often drives dysfunction in the others.
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Overall Takeaway:
A holistic approach to supplementation can help restore balance across the stress response, sleep cycles, and immune system, promoting greater resilience, recovery, and long-term health.
DATE: Tuesday, October 27, 2026
This lecture introduces learners to the complex relationship between sex-specific hormonal health, metabolic function, and healthy aging.
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Overall Takeaway:
A holistic understanding of hormonal and metabolic health enables practitioners to develop personalized strategies that support women’s and men’s health, healthy aging, weight management, and long-term metabolic resilience.
DATE: Tuesday, November 4, 2026
This lecture introduces learners to strategic supplementation for brain function, memory support, and pediatric health.
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Overall Takeaway:
Safe, personalized supplementation can support lifelong cognitive health, memory function, and healthy childhood development within a holistic wellness approach.
If your schedule doesn’t allow you to attend classes in real time, join us through recordings. Many of our Continuing Education students are busy practitioners and professionals, balancing work, family and other commitments so we understand that flexibility is necessary. Replay access and completion options are arranged on a case-by-case basis to ensure you still receive the full educational value of the course and have engagement with the faculty member and other registrants. You also have the option to earn the Certificate of Completion if you’re able to complete the required test or assignment by the due dates.
If you’re interested in accessing replays or exploring flexible participation options with your schedule, please contact Julia Briski at julia@instituteofholisticnutrition.com for more information.
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