Modern Veterinary Nutrition:
From Kibble to Raw

The Details:

• Learn through 24 organized modules with full transcripts so you can watch, read, or review in the way you learn best.
• Complete 60 bite-sized video lectures, each 20 minutes or less, making it easy to fit into even the busiest schedule.
• A New More Engaging Course Format
• Learn at your own pace with the ability to pause, revisit lessons, and watch every lecture at 0.5x–2x speed.
• Complete each module, pass the quizzes with 70% or higher, and earn your 20 hours of RACE®-approved continuing education credit.

The Details:

• 20 hours of RACE®-approved continuing education
• Learn from 15 internationally recognized veterinarians, PhDs, and nutrition experts, each teaching the subject they know best.
• A New More Engaging Course Format
• Interactive quizzes designed to reinforce the most important clinical concepts.
• Downloadable slides, charts, and reference guides you'll use throughout your one-year enrollment.
• 1 Year of Access Keep it as your nutrition reference year after year for just $99/year.
• Comprehensive training covering puppy and kitten nutrition, senior pets, obesity, the microbiome, homemade diets, therapeutic nutrition, sports medicine, and much more.
• The knowledge and confidence to answer your clients' nutrition questions and help them make educated feeding decisions, whether they choose raw, gently cooked, homemade, canned, freeze-dried, dehydrated, baked, air-dried, or kibble.

24 modules. 20 hours RACE approved CEUs. 

Foundations

1. Pros and Cons of Different Pet Food Types — kibble, raw, baked, dehydrated, air-dried, canned, sous-vide, freeze-dried: how each is made, how to feed it, and how to guide a client to the right choice.

2. AGEs and Processing — how advanced glycation end products and processing may influence aging, brain health, and canine cognitive dysfunction.

3. Regulations and Ethics (AVMA & AAFCO Guidelines) — AAFCO, FEDIAF, NRC, the legal limits on who can give nutritional advice, and the ethics of brand-rep recommendations.

4. Navigating Commercial Pet Food — reading labels and claims, evaluating a company, feeding by gram vs. cup, adjusting for the individual animal's activity and metabolism.

5. Nutritional Myths — raw, ingredients, carbs, fiber, DCM, and "complete and balanced," in a true-or-false format.

6. Foundations of Canine Nutrition — essential nutrients, life-stage needs, large-breed growth, species-specific vs. breed-specific.

7. Nutritional Assessment Skills — body and muscle condition scoring, assessment at routine visits, calculating caloric needs.

8. Ingredients — understanding proteins, by-products, organic claims, upcycled ingredients, animal welfare and more.

Inside the Industry

9. Commercial vs. Prescription vs. Boutique Foods — what each is actually for, and how they're formulated.

10. Behind the Scenes — manufacturing, quality control, safety, and how recalls really work.

Clinical Application

11. Food Therapy — 101 and 201: warming and cooling foods, and how to use them.

12. Weight Loss — beyond calorie restriction: exercise, protein, satiety, supplements, and avoiding the deficiencies a crash diet creates.

13. The Microbiome — stomach acid, bile, digestion, and the dietary levers that actually move gut health.

14. Fiber: The Missing Link in Microbiome Support

15. Digestion Physiology

16. Emerging Trends & Controversies — grain-free, grain-inclusive, DCM, non-traditional DCM diets, cats and carbs.

17. Myth Busting Oral Care — dental health, at-home care, and where the nutrition train really starts.

18. Life Stages — growth, reproduction, adult, senior; preventive care and developmental orthopedic disease.

19. Feeding the Canine Athlete — what the studies say, what works in the field.

20. Feeding During Disease — co-morbidities, kidney, liver and the copper debate, cancer and ketogenic approaches, derm.

21. Gastrointestinal Disease: GI from Mouth to Butt — dysbiosis, vomiting, diarrhea, IBD, pancreatitis, lymphangiectasia, short bowel, gallbladder sludge, HGE, GDV.

22. Digestive Supplements & Treats — probiotics and the gut-brain axis, prebiotics, aloe, marshmallow, clay.

Practice

23. Client Communication & Adherence — how to communicate the value of nutrition, how to charge for your expertise, how to handle the common objections, and the follow-up protocols that make advice stick.

24. Feline — Not Just Small Dogs — growth, gestation, the carnivore conundrum, lower urinary tract disease, metabolic disease, diabetes, hyperthyroidism.