Foundations of Gut Health for Practitioners
This advanced clinical course provides a structured, evidence-driven framework for evaluating and restoring gut health as a foundational driver of hormonal balance, immune regulation, metabolic function, and systemic inflammation. Designed for real-world practice, the training moves from core gastrointestinal physiology to dysbiosis, intestinal permeability, and microbiome disruption. Clinicians will learn how diet, stress, medications, toxins, infections, and circadian rhythm disruption impair gut integrity and contribute to chronic, treatment-resistant symptoms, with clear strategies for clinical assessment and intervention.
Gut Health = Overall Health
Every year we learn more about the important connection between gut health and overall health and well-being. Out gut is home to more than 100 trillion bacteria, which play a vital role in maintaining the health of our gut and communication with the rest of the body. Not only does the majority of our immune system lie within our gut, but so does communication and production between key neurotransmitter; deeming the gut the "second brain".
Learn the fundamentals of the Gastrointestinal system and its inner workings, so you can identify when disease is present. The 5 R Approach is used in Functional Medicine and can help you take a comprehensive approach to your patients' gut health and overall wellness. The 5 Rs are:
- Remove
- Replace
- Repopulate
- Repair
- Rebalance
Do these challenges sound familiar to you?
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Curious Beginners
Are you treating patients with chronic or treatment-resistant symptoms?
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Designed for clinicians managing fatigue, autoimmune conditions, metabolic dysfunction, hormone imbalance, inflammation, and mood disorders where gut dysfunction is a root contributor.
Do your patients fail to improve despite normal labs or standard care?
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Are you ready to address root causes instead of managing symptoms?
Ideal for clinicians who want structured, evidence-driven gut health strategies that integrate nutrition, supplementation, lifestyle, and microbiome support.
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What you’ll take away from this course
- Gut Anatomy, Physiology, and Microbiome Fundamentals: Understand gastrointestinal structure, digestive function, commensal versus opportunistic organisms, and the gut’s role in immune and hormonal signaling.
- Clinical Drivers of Dysbiosis and Intestinal Permeability: Learn how stress physiology, medications, toxins, infections, diet, and circadian disruption impair gut barrier integrity and microbial balance.
- Evidence-Driven Gut Restoration Strategies: Apply stepwise clinical approaches to remove, replace, repair, repopulate, and rebalance the gut using targeted nutrition, probiotics, prebiotics, and lifestyle interventions.
Designed for you to start using on day-one
- Gut focused intake form
- Foundations of Gut Health for Practitioners – Exam
- 37 lessons
- 4 hours of video lectures.
- Expert instruction from Erin Gagne, FNP-C, a leader in gut health and functional medicine.
Top experts in your corner every step of the way
Erin is a dedicated Nurse Practitioner with a diverse background in medicine. She earned her Bachelor’s in Nursing from the University of Rhode Island in 2008 before moving to South Carolina. She spent eight years in the Cardiothoracic ICU at MUSC before becoming a Family Nurse Practitioner in 2016. Her career spans internal medicine, physical medicine (with a focus on PRP and stem cell therapies), aesthetic medicine, and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy/functional medicine. In 2017, she became a certified Aesthetic Injector and has continued to expand her expertise.
Clinicians Companion Annual Certification Program
The Clinicians Companion Annual Certification Program (ACP) is an add-on for clinicians who have graduated the BHRT Masterclass. The ACP provides one year of ongoing education and support opportunities, and real-time resources that help you grow your skills, serve your patients better, and stay ahead of industry shifts.
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Private Community Message Board. We support your training by answering your real-world questions, from confidence building check-ins to complex cases.
Exclusive access to live learning events. These Q&A and specialty focus events are fun, informative and provide real clinical insight
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As an HHI Certified Clinician you will receive digital certification and listing in our public facing HHI Certified Clinician Directory
ACP Member-only partner benefits, including exclusive vendor discounts, preferred pricing on Dr. DeRosa’s publications and exclusive access to ACP-only specialty courses.
Train Today. Treat Tomorrow.
Evidence-driven curriculum with clinical videos, dosing tools, case studies, downloadable dosing charts, protocols, quick reference guides and ongoing clinical support from foundation to advanced nuances.
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