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Health · Pre-Course Guide
Biochemistry, clinical practice and evidence — explained before day one.
A Master's in Nutrition assumes you can already move between biochemistry, physiology, clinical practice, public health and statistics. This guide builds that fluency calmly: what nutrients actually do, how the body handles them, how nutrition is used in disease and across the life course, and how to read a nutrition paper without dread.
What a Nutrition Master's actually looks like across its different pathways, why feeling rusty is normal, and how Portuguese programmes are genuinely structured.
Macronutrients, micronutrients, energy and dietary reference values — the vocabulary every Nutrition Master's assumes you can already use.
How food actually becomes you: digestion, absorption, transport, and the organs that keep the whole system in balance.
ATP, the Krebs cycle, insulin and energy balance — introduced from scratch, no prior biochemistry assumed.
The Nutrition Care Process and an introduction to nutrition in obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, renal and hepatic disease.
Why nutritional priorities shift from preconception through pregnancy, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and ageing.
From treating one patient to improving outcomes for a whole population: food environments, policy, surveillance and health inequalities.
Composition, processing, safety and sustainability — the science of food itself, and how it connects to nutrition and health.
What actually counts as evidence, how a research question becomes a study, and how to read a nutrition paper without dread.
Cohorts, RCTs and systematic reviews; means, p-values, confounding, and why correlation still isn't causation.
How to read, write and study at Master's level, a visual glossary of the words that sound scarier than they are, and how a Portuguese Master's actually runs day to day.
A realistic, week-by-week preparation plan for the month before class begins, and a starter checklist to know you're ready.
Everything you need to feel prepared before your first lecture — explained from zero, designed for beginners, and built to give you a head start.
500+ pages designed to prepare you before day one.
Complex concepts explained in simple language.
Diagrams, models and visual explanations that make learning easier.
Understand how theory works in real businesses.
Quick recaps so revision takes minutes instead of hours.
Learn the vocabulary before your lecturers use it.
Every concept includes clear examples you can actually understand.
Read anytime. Keep every update forever.
Whenever the guide improves, your version improves too.
Created after analysing real university programmes so you're learning what actually matters.
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Eighteen months of confidence.
Semester 0 isn't another textbook.
It's everything students wish they knew before walking into their first Master's lecture.
"The metabolism module turned the scariest part of my first semester into revision."
Marta S.
MSc Nutrition, Lisbon
"I finally understood what my lecturers meant by evidence hierarchy before week one."
Tomás L.
Sports science graduate → MSc Nutrition
The complete 674-page preparation book with every module, case study and exercise.
€19.99
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