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The Adaptogen Advantage: Food-Based Medicine for Mind, Body, and Balance - Dietitian CPE Continuing Professional Education, 15 CEU

The Adaptogen Advantage: Food-Based Medicine for Mind, Body, and Balance - Dietitian CPE Continuing Professional Education, 15 CEU

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  • CDR Approved: Yes
  • Self-Paced Reading Format
  • Quiz & Certificate Included

Certified for 15 CPEUs

CPE Type: 741 Online/Web-Based Course/Enduring Activity

Here's How Simple It Is:

  1. Read the material online
  2. Complete the quiz online
  3. Get your certificate of completion immediately and earn CPE towards your license renewal

Course Outcome

≥93% of participants will expand their expertise in using food-based and herbal strategies to help clients holistically manage stress, improve energy, support immunity, and enhance overall resilience in clinical nutrition practice.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, the participant will be able to:

  • Define adaptogens and describe their core mechanisms of action across the endocrine, immune, and nervous systems.
  • Identify and differentiate key adaptogenic herbs used in clinical nutrition, including Ashwagandha, Rhodiola, Reishi, Holy Basil, Schisandra, and Cordyceps.
  • Apply adaptogen selection strategies based on client presentation, such as burnout, metabolic inflexibility, hormone imbalance, immune dysregulation, and GI dysfunction.
  • Integrate culinary and supplemental adaptogens into therapeutic diets, including low-FODMAP, AIP, Mediterranean, and ketogenic protocols.
  • Design personalized, phase-based adaptogen protocols using case studies, including guidance on dosing, timing, and nutrient synergy.
  • Evaluate safety, contraindications, and lab markers relevant to adaptogen use in complex or chronic care plans.

Who Should Enroll? 

  • Registered Dietitians (RDs) and Dietetic Technicians, Registered (DTRs): Nutrition professionals seeking evidence-informed, systems-based tools to improve outcomes in clients dealing with stress-related conditions, immune challenges, hormone disruption, or chronic fatigue.
  • Functional and Integrative Nutritionists: Clinicians looking to integrate adaptogenic herbs into food-as-medicine strategies, therapeutic diets, and lifestyle-focused protocols.
  • Culinary and Wellness Practitioners: Educators and coaches interested in using adaptogens for daily resilience through practical culinary applications such as teas, elixirs, broths, and functional snacks.

CDR Learning Plan Alignment

Activity Number: 188169

CDR Spheres Supported: Research and Scholarship, Food, Nutrition and Dietetics, Education and Counseling, Clinical Care, and Critical Thinking and Decision Making

Performance Indicators Covered: 7.2.1, 7.3.2, 9.5.2, 10.1.2, 10.6.6, 10.6.10, 11.2.4, 11.5.4, 5.1.6, and 5.2.8

If this course supports your practice but doesn’t match your current Learning Plan, you may revise your plan at any time through the CDR portal.

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Kara (Florida, United States)
Highly Recommend

It was comprehensive. Easy to access, and gives us the opportunity to study more courses

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Aliza M.P.H., R.D., C.D.N. (Idaho, United States)
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Wonderful. Variety of courses to choose from and user friendly

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Deanna (Ohio, United States)
Perfect in a pinch

Very easy to maintain and also the questions are ok to answer

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