People’s health and wellbeing are our guiding star.

The Advanced Course in Endocrinology and Nutrition – Connecting the dots, proposes a proficient dialogue of knowledge and expertise alongside the professional input regarding the articulation between Food and Nutrition Sciences and Endocrinology, as catalysts for the performance of health services in harmony with the major concepts of the area. Naturally, it is known that this premise correlates to the realms of Human Medicine, Sports Sciences, Psychology and many other specialities and professions in relation to people’s health and wellbeing.

People under conditions of treatment and of the re-structure of the endocrine system require particular customised plans of endocrinological and nutritional intervention with the recurrent synergy among health professionals who take the patient as the blueprint of their work, as is the case with endocrinologists and nutritionists. Besides the expected results of the biological expression, depending on the levels of safety and effectiveness of the intervention, i.e., of pharmacon, food plans and clinical advice in sensu lato, teamwork will certainly bring other benefits, whether tangible or not. This can be allocated to the socio-affective or mental domain of people, and may take the form of consistent changes, improved adherence or other. These results will also be a consequence of experience pertaining to people, with increasingly critical capacity of the exercise and commitment of health professionals in the holistic management of their clinical process. Professional networking translates into a growing demand from society, it is a necessity, and materializes ethical precepts and leads to clinical success.

A set of knowledge and skills that will contribute to a superior professional practice, safer and effective, is what we pretend to design as a construct to address nutrition and eating disorders with consequences on the endocrine system, which are often inseparable. Likewise, throughout the classes it is intended to enable students to identify, describe, critically analyse and intervene when presented with endocrine disorders and physical conditions such as obesity, interpreting and relying on the network of knowledge and skills and on the understanding and analytical parameterisation of hormonal imbalances, changes in its regulation and absorption, nutritional therapy and hormonal regulation through physical exercise.

Welcome to the Advanced Course in Endocrinology and Nutrition – Connecting the dots.