For anyone serious
Foundation Certificate
- Length
- 12 weeks
- Format
- Online + 2 weekends in Mumbai
- Time
- 6 hours a week
- Courses
- IMN 101 – 260
For coaches, founders, parents and professionals who want metabolic health properly explained.
₹68,000incl. GST
Mumbai · Cohort 01 · January 2027
Medicine treatsthe disease.We train the peoplewho prevent it.
India's institute for preventive and metabolic health. We train doctors, dietitians and coaches to spot metabolic disease years early, and to reverse it with food, movement and sleep.
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C₆H₁₂O₆ · β-D-glucoseThe molecule this institute is about
101million
Indians living with diabetes.
136million
More with prediabetes. Most don't know yet.
351million
With abdominal obesity, the clearest early warning sign we have.
ICMR–INDIAB national study, The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, June 2023.
Lesson one · IMN 101
Insulin rises for yearsbefore glucose does.
A simplified teaching model from our first course. Glucose (amber) enters the blood after meals. Insulin (blue) unlocks muscle and fat so they can take it in. Drag through ten years and watch what a fasting glucose test misses.
Year 0. Healthy.Muscle clears glucose quickly with very little insulin.
Fasting glucose88mg/dL
Fasting insulin5.0µIU/mL
HOMA-IR1.1
Waist84cm
Year 0
By year four, fasting insulin has quadrupled while glucose still looks normal. Most check-ups only test glucose. Our graduates learn to look earlier.
Course catalogue 2027
Twelve courses.
01
FoundationsClinical
Three ways in,wherever you start.
Each programme ends with real people: supervised clients for practitioners, partner clinics for doctors.
For practitioners
Practitioner Diploma
- Length
- 9 months
- Format
- Hybrid, clinical placements
- Time
- 12 hours a week
- Courses
- All 12 + capstone
For dietitians, nutritionists, physiotherapists and trainers. Supervised work with 20 real clients.
₹3,40,000EMI available
For doctors
Clinical Fellowship
- Length
- 12 months
- Format
- In person, Mumbai
- Seats
- 12 a year
- Eligibility
- MBBS, MD or DNB
Remission protocols for type 2 diabetes and fatty liver in partner clinics. Fellows co-author one study.
Stipendby application
Who this is for
If you've ever looked at a client's "normal" report and felt something was off.
UnsureSecond-guessingOut of dateOverwhelmed by reelsAlone with it
What if you had a framework, a cohort, and the evidence graded for you? That's the institute.
Every claim we teachcarries a grade.
Nutrition is full of confident people. We'd rather our students know how strong each idea is, including when the answer is "we don't know yet". A sample from IMN 450.
A
Resistance training improves insulin sensitivity.
Consistent across many randomised trials. We teach it as medicine, with dose and progression.
A
Asian Indians face metabolic risk at a lower BMI.
Which is why Indian guidelines start "overweight" at 23, not 25. Waist size often tells you more.
B
Intermittent fasting helps with weight loss.
It works, though usually about as well as eating a little less every day. It suits some lives better.
C
Vinegar before meals lowers glucose spikes.
Small, short studies show a modest effect. Interesting, not a strategy on its own.
D
Detox teas cleanse the liver.
No good evidence. Your liver already does this. We spend a session on explaining that kindly to clients.
Cohort 01opens in January.
1 NovApplications open
12 NovFaculty announced, each with their conflicts of interest published
15 DecApplications close
11 JanFoundation and Diploma begin
1 MarFirst Clinical Fellows start
On funding. IMN takes no money from food, pharmaceutical or supplement companies for teaching, including our sister brands in the High Performance Living Collective.
Is the Foundation Certificate enough to practise?+
No. It's an education, not a licence to treat. Practitioners take the Diploma, which includes supervised client work, and always work within their existing professional scope.
Do I need a science background?+
Not for the Foundation Certificate. IMN 101 starts from what happens in the four hours after you eat. The Diploma expects basic physiology, and we offer a two-week bridge course if you need it.
How is this different from a functional medicine course?+
We teach what the evidence supports and grade everything. Where functional medicine ideas hold up, we teach them. Where they don't, we explain why.
Can I study from outside Mumbai?+
Yes. Most teaching is online. Foundation students travel for two weekends; Diploma placements are offered in Mumbai, Pune and Bengaluru in 2027.