Yes. Acne (including adult and hormonal acne), hormone-driven skin changes and perimenopausal skin ageing are core clinical applications of the diploma, not optional extras.

The Certificate includes Modules 13 and 14 only.

We don’t teach that students or their clients need to follow a strict plant-based diet, nor do we prescribe any particular dietary regime as being “best” for skin health.

Our approach is quite different from that. The Diploma focuses on understanding how nutrition and specific functional foods can influence the skin at the cellular, molecular and biochemical level — and then learning how to apply that science within an individual’s existing diet and lifestyle.The foods and nutritional strategies we teach are plant-focused because this is where much of the really interesting skin nutrition research lies: polyphenols, carotenoids, flavonoids, phytoestrogens, prebiotics and other bioactive compounds, for example.

But the Diploma itself isn’t a course in a prescribed plant-based diet. The aim would be to understand how to strategically incorporate particular foods and nutrients to support things such as collagen formation, cellular hydration, oxidative stress, inflammation, glycation, pigmentation, the gut-skin axis and other pathways involved in skin health and ageing.

Ultimately, we’re much more interested in teaching you how food interacts with skin biology than telling you what dietary label you or your clients should follow.Accordion Description

Yes. All smaller courses offered by the school are extracted lessons or modules from the diploma. They exist to make the material accessible to practitioners with very limited budgets.

Most nutrition programmes focus on weight management, metabolic disease, or general health. Skin is rarely covered in any depth.

Yes. The programme covers gut health, hormonal health, inflammatory pathways and metabolic contributors to skin conditions, allowing you to work confidently with complex, multi-factorial cases.

Yes. All core skin biology applies across genders. Hormonal modules cover both female and male hormone–skin interactions.

Yes. Improving skin health at a nutritional and cellular level enhances outcomes, resilience and longevity — whether or not clients choose to continue aesthetic interventions.

Facial skin turnover occurs over approximately 30–50 days, so practitioners are trained to manage expectations accordingly. That said, targeted nutritional interventions often produce noticeable improvements sooner.

Yes. The diploma includes case study assignments and a Graduate Pack containing practical tools, resources and frameworks for clinical use.

Deficiencies and anti-nutrients are covered within the Malnutrition module. The program prioritises food-based and botanical strategies rather than reliance on synthetic supplementation.

Yes. This integrated approach is actively encouraged and consistently delivers better outcomes.

Yes. Skin is built from nutritional inputs. Nutrition and metabolism are the primary drivers; topical interventions play a supportive role.

Client compliance is multi-factorial, but the diploma provides practitioners with clearer frameworks, stronger clinical reasoning and ongoing graduate support — all of which improve long-term outcomes.

Skin-specific nutrition training remains rare. This diploma provides a level of depth, clinical reasoning and integration that most practitioners simply have not been taught.

Graduates hold an internationally accredited qualification and can confidently discuss skin health at a cellular and biochemical level, facilitating more credible interdisciplinary conversations.

Most graduates add skin nutrition consultations, dietary coaching (using the ready-made professional client materials you download after graduation) and longer-term transformation programmes that integrate nutrition with topical and aesthetic treatments.