This free training introduces the framework behind BioIndividual Nutrition
Using autism as a revealing model, Julie Matthews demonstrates how biochemical individuality, therapeutic diets, and personalized nutrition strategies intersect in complex cases.
What Autism Reveals
About Root-Cause Nutrition for Chronic Disease
To work confidently with complex pediatric cases, this is the level of thinking required.
What You’ll Learn in This Training
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The biochemical patterns autism reveals — and why these same patterns underlie so many chronic health issues
- How to interpret symptoms as biochemical clues that point toward root causes
- Why standard protocols fail with complex cases — and what practitioners can do differently
- Real-world examples of complex cases showing meaningful improvements with targeted nutrition
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A practical, systems-based nutrition framework you can apply in your practice right away
If you aim to support complex pediatric cases, this is the level of thinking required.
What You’ll Learn in This Training:
- The biochemical patterns autism reveals — and why these same patterns underlie so many chronic health issues
- How to interpret symptoms as biochemical clues that point toward root causes
- Why standard protocols fail with complex cases — and what practitioners can do differently
- Real-world examples of complex cases showing meaningful improvements with targeted nutrition
- A practical, systems-based nutrition framework you can apply in your practice right away
It’s relevant for practitioners working with:
- Autism, ADHD, and neurodevelopmental conditions
- Autoimmune and inflammatory disorders
- Complex digestive dysfunction
- Chronic fatigue, anxiety, or metabolic issues
- Clients who do not respond predictably to standard protocols
It’s relevant for practitioners working with:
- Autism, ADHD, and neurodevelopmental conditions
- Autoimmune and inflammatory disorders
- Complex digestive dysfunction
- Chronic fatigue, anxiety, or metabolic issues
- Clients who do not respond predictably to standard protocols
Lead the future of nutrition with a personalized, results-driven approach
Explore Bioindividual nutritionLead the future of nutrition with a personalized, results-driven approach
Explore Bioindividual nutritionWith this one-of-a-kind training…
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Provide targeted diet & nutrition guidance
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Get breakthrough results even with complex cases
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Boost your confidence with therapeutic diets
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Condense your learning time by years!
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Build a rewarding and prosperous career
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Collaborate with professionals around the world
With this one-of-a-kind training…
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Provide targeted diet & nutrition guidance
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Get breakthrough results even with complex cases
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Boost your confidence with therapeutic diets
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Condense your learning time by years!
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Build a rewarding and prosperous career
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Collaborate with professionals around the world
“Personalized nutrition is a field with great potential to address chronic disease and optimize human health and performance.”
American Nutrition Association position paper
What is BioIndividual Nutrition?
BioIndividual Nutrition is a systematic methodology for personalizing diet and nutrition strategies for each individual’s unique biology, physiology, genetics, and health needs.
Rather than asking, “What is the best diet?”
BioIndividual Nutrition asks, “What is the best food & nutrition approach for this individual?”
Because every person processes foods differently, variations in digestion, detoxification, the microbiome, nutrient metabolism, and immune function influence how specific foods and compounds affect the body—beneficial for some, problematic for others.
The BioIndividual Nutrition methodology identifies these biochemical patterns and aligns them with targeted therapeutic diets and nutritional interventions. By understanding how food influences physiology—and how physiology shapes an individual’s response to food—practitioners can personalize nutrition with greater precision and confidence.
Grounded in nutrition science, nutrigenomics, functional medicine, and Julie Matthews’ published scientific research, BioIndividual Nutrition provides a comprehensive framework for individualized nutrition care.
This framework is organized into the Six Pillars of BioIndividual Nutrition, which guide practitioners in translating the science of individuality into practical clinical application.
Because every person processes foods differently, variations in digestion, detoxification, the microbiome, nutrient metabolism, and immune function influence how specific foods and compounds affect the body—beneficial for some, problematic for others.
The BioIndividual Nutrition methodology identifies these biochemical patterns and aligns them with targeted therapeutic diets and nutritional interventions. By understanding how food influences physiology—and how physiology shapes an individual’s response to food—practitioners can personalize nutrition with greater precision and confidence.
Grounded in nutrition science, nutrigenomics, functional medicine, and Julie Matthews’ published scientific research, BioIndividual Nutrition provides a comprehensive framework for individualized nutrition care.
This framework is organized into the Six Pillars of BioIndividual Nutrition, which guide practitioners in translating the science of individuality into practical clinical application.
Applicable Across Clinical Practice
Applied across pediatric and adult practice, BioIndividual Nutrition helps practitioners support a wide range of chronic and complex health conditions, including:
Neurodevelopmental & neurological
Gastrointestinal & digestive
Hormonal & endocrine
Mental health & behavior
Immune & autoimmune
Metabolic & mitochondrial
Food sensitivities & deficiencies
Chronic inflammatory
Neurodevelopmental & neurological
Gastrointestinal & digestive
Hormonal & endocrine
Mental health & behavior
Immune & autoimmune
Metabolic & mitochondrial
Food sensitivities & deficiencies
Chronic inflammatory
The 6 Pillars of BioIndividual Nutrition
The clinical framework for consistently personalized nutrition
Learn to think through complex nutritional cases
—not memorize protocols
Learn to think through complex nutritional cases —not memorize protocols
Each pillar builds on the previous one, giving you a complete framework for evaluating, understanding, and personalizing nutrition for complex cases.
UNDERSTANDING
CHRONIC DISEASE
As you learn our unified perspective for chronic disease, you’ll understand your client’s disease on a deeper level, so you be effective at applying special diets for the needs of clients with a wide range of chronic diseases.
You’ll master:
- IBS & Digestive disorders
- Autoimmune disorders
- Anxiety & Depression
- Autism & ADHD
- Mitochondrial dysfunction
- Methylation disorders
- Neurological conditions
- Hypothyroid & Hashimoto’s
- Eczema and skin conditions
- Asthma & Allergies
- Obesity & Diabetes
DETERMINING
BIOINDIVIDUALITY
By learning to identify specific underlying factors like health history, environmental triggers, chronic conditions and symptoms, food reactions, and biochemistry, you gain a system that will enable you to get to the root of your client’s problem.
You’ll master:
- Inflammation
- Poor methylation
- Poor sulfation
- Poor digestion
- Microbiome imbalance
- Mitochondrial dysfunction
- Poor detoxification
- Genetics/Epigenetics/SNPs
DISCOVERING FOOD’S AFFECT ON BIOCHEMISTRY
As you learn how little-known food compounds affect the body’s biochemistry and systems they may affect, you will be able to detect and address “mysterious” symptoms other practitioners don’t understand.
You’ll master:
- Salicylates & Phenols
- Histamines & Amines
- Glutamate
- Oxalates & FODMAPS
- Food allergens/ Sensitivities
- Di- and Polysaccharides
- Yeast containing foods
- Nightshades
- Sulfur/thiol foods
- Purines, Lectins, Phytates
MASTERING
THERAPEUTIC DIETS
When you understand the intricacies of each therapeutic diet, how to use them, and practical implementation tips, you will feel confident helping your client implement any diet with the best tools and resources available.
You’ll master:
- Gluten/Casein/Soy-Free
- SCD & GAPS Diet
- Paleo Diet
- Autoimmune Paleo
- Feingold Diet
- Failsafe Diet
- Low oxalate Diet
- Body Ecology Diet
- Low FODMAPs Diet
- Ketogenic Diets
- Rotation Diets
- Elimination Diets
- more!
CUSTOMIZING BIOINDIVIDUAL NUTRITION
By learning to create BioIndividual Nutrition Strategy plans incorporating our unique seven point method of determining diet direction, you will gain an effective methodology and clinical tools that make it quicker and easier to create effective plans for your clients.
You’ll master:
- Food cravings
- Diet record, food frequency
- Reactions to foods
- Common Symptoms
- Laboratory testing
- Genetics
- Client considerations
EVOLVING
the DIET
When you improve tolerance, reassess dietary needs, and expand the diet, you help your client improve their dietary variety and nutrition to help them maintain the results they have gained and continue to improve and heal.
You’ll master:
- Depleting factors & deficiencies
- Underlying factors & biochemistry
- Supplementation support
- Lifestyle
- Toxin avoidance
- Dietary trial
- Provocation food testing
The goal was never to teach another diet. It was to develop practitioners who know which dietary strategy fits which client, and why.
Julie Matthews, MS
Program Director
Why This Matters Now
Public awareness around chronic disease, autism, and the role of nutrition is increasing.
Families are looking for practitioners who understand more than elimination diets — who can interpret biochemical patterns and apply therapeutic diets with precision.
Are you equipped to guide it?
Founder & Instructor
Julie Matthews, MS is a globally respected nutrition expert, award-winning author, and published researcher that holds a Masters degree in Medical Nutrition. Her guidance is backed by twenty five years of clinical experience and published scientific research with complex neurological and physiological needs; particularly autism and related disorders.
Founder & Instuctor
Julie Matthews, MS is a globally respected nutrition expert, award-winning author, and published researcher that holds a Masters degree in Medical Nutrition. Her guidance is backed by twenty five years of clinical experience and published scientific research with complex neurological and physiological needs; particularly autism and related disorders.
Julie has educated healthcare practitioners throughout North America, Europe, and Australia, speaking at leading conferences and professional trainings including Integrative Medicine for Mental Health (IMMH), the Autism Research Institute (DAN!), the Medical Academy of Pediatric Special Needs (MAPS), and the MINDD International Forum.
Her work has been featured across television, radio, podcasts, and print media, and recognized by organizations including Price-Pottenger and the National Association of Nutrition Professionals. Julie continues to maintain an active clinical practice while serving on scientific advisory boards and advancing the field through education and research.
While studying nutrition in 2001, Julie discovered compelling evidence that food and nutrition could profoundly influence the severity of autism symptoms. Determined to understand why, she dedicated herself to investigating the underlying biology and translating that science into practical guidance that parents and clinicians could use to help children.
Her original research paper at Bauman College became her award-winning book, Nourishing Hope for Autism, which explains both why nutrition influences the biochemical pathways involved in autism and how to apply personalized nutrition to support better outcomes.
After years in clinical practice, Julie recognized that the personalized nutrition strategies producing the greatest improvements for children with autism were equally valuable in many other chronic conditions. Because autism involves some of the body’s most complex interactions—including immune, digestive, neurological, metabolic, and biochemical dysfunction—it became the lens through which she refined a systematic approach to personalized nutrition.
Today, she teaches practitioners how to recognize these underlying patterns, connect symptoms to physiology, and confidently develop personalized nutrition strategies for children and adults with a wide range of complex health conditions.
Julie founded Nourishing Hope to advance the understanding and application of personalized nutrition for autism, and later established the BioIndividual Nutrition Institute to teach practitioners the methodology she developed through decades of clinical experience, research, and practice.
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What Makes BioIndividual Nutrition Training Unique
Gain the clinical clarity and tools to personalize diets with confidence
Julie Matthews, MS, explains the science, strategy, and soul behind BioIndividual Nutrition
—distilled from two decades of clinical nutrition practice.
This program is for…
Nutritionists • Dietitians • Functional / Integrative Medical Practitions
Chiropractors • Naturopaths • Nurses • Health Coaches
What professionals say about the program…
“The BioIndividual Nutrition training has been one of the best investments for my career as a nutritionist. The course has been invaluable.”
Francesca Orlando-Baldwin, NTP, CGP
Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition
“I highly recommend the BioIndividual Nutrition training! Julie’s expertise in therapeutic special diets is cutting-edge and so relevant for the anxious women I work with.”
Trudy Scott, CN
Author: The AntiAnxiety Food Solution
“The BioIndividual Nutrition Program has helped my health coaches and myself understand how to approach challenging patient cases and given us tools and resources to get faster and more effective results with our clients.”
Dr. David Jockers
DNM, DC, MS
Become Certified in BioIndividual Nutrition
Broad application…
Your clients are…
ADULTS addressing a wide range of chronic disease/disorder
Focus on pediatrics/autism…
Your clients are…
CHILDREN with autism, ADHD, or other complex childhood disorder
For practitioners who intend to specialize in autism, ADHD, and pediatric neurodevelopment — this is the advanced pathway.
Pediatric Enrollment Opening for April
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