Our Vision

...is to provide excellent education and clinical training in nutritional therapy so that the public can access appropriate and 'safe' therapeutic support and high level serivces can be offered to research, industry and the public health sector. .

Our Mission is to......

Educate, motivate and inspire people globally to take charge of their health and wellbeing

Raise the profile of nutritional therapy by delivering university validated and accredited courses in nutritional therapy and nutritional science.

Seek integration of nutritional therapy with mainstream healthcare at a therapeutic and public health level

Contribute meaningfully to education and research in the nutrition industry.

Research Centre....

For nutritional therapy to mature as a clinical discipline it must embrace evidence based medicine (EBM). CNELM has a deep commitment to the development of evidence based nutritional therapy, and aims to overcome the current limitations of randomised control trials (RCTs) by using a class of advanced statistical techniques known as statistical machine learning (SML): these are at the cutting edge of how computer scientists deal with non-linear data.

SML techniques are new, many of the best performing have only been developed over the last 15-20 years; their young age reflects the rapid growth in computer power that was required to make the usable. They have already had considerable uptake within the biological and medical sciences, which also have to deal with non-linear data and the limitations of RCTs.

Nutritional therapy is a form of functional medicine: an approach to medicine that threats each patient uniquely and addresses their biochemical imbalances through dietary and lifestyle changes and supplementation as appropriate. Functional medicine considers how these changes work together, and necessarily alters many interacting variables. RCTs, the current gold standard of EBM provide evidence about how one - or at most a few - variables affect an individual, and it is this limitation that the more advances techniques of SML overcome.

Much of biology over the last century has focused on identifying the individual components of bilogical systems; however increased computer power has now made it possible to build simultions to study how these parts interact: this field is known as systems biology. Functional medicine is a systems biology approach to medicine, and as such, it makes perfect sense to use many of the techniques used in systems biology when studying the efficacy of functional medicine and nutritional therapy.

At CNELm our aim is to build a research centre, with active postdoctoral, PhD and MSc researchers focusing on this integrated approach to evidence based functional medicine. However, our aim is also to build bridges between academic communities: bringing together researchers in SML and systems biology with practitioners in nutritional therapy and functional medicine. This, we hope, will facilitate a revoultion in healthcare that will bring nutritional therapy and functional medicine squarely into the mainstream.

The Nutrition Practitioner journal....

Founding Editor: Kate Neil

The Nutrition Practitioner professional journal was first published in 1999 and is to the best of our knowledge the ony journal in the UK that focuses only on the science and art of nutrition to support nutritional therapy practice. The journal is a substantial publication and is published three times a year.

Graduates of nutritional therapy courses are the main subscribers as are students from the various training colleges. Doctors and other health and education professionals interested in nutritional therapy also subscribe. Interested and informed members of the public find this journal of great value.

You can visit www.nutprac.com to review some example articles. You can download a subscription form.