A foundational program in Holistic Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine for health professionals seeking a deeper understanding of chronic disease management and reversal.
We study nourishment across seven dimensions of human life.
Qualifying applicants may earn scholarships of 60%–90%.
Physical nutrition is fundamental. But human beings are nourished by far more than what enters the digestive system.
HNTP examines health through seven interconnected dimensions of nourishment — helping learners look beyond isolated symptoms and understand the wider context within which human physiology operates.
Food, movement, sleep, sunlight, breathing, environment and the physiological requirements of the body.
Thoughts, emotions, stress, resilience, perception and the quality of our inner environment.
Community, belonging, friendship, support and our connection with the wider social world.
The quality, safety and nourishment we experience within our closest interpersonal relationships.
Work, purpose, contribution, fulfilment and our relationship with what we do every day.
Learning, curiosity, intellectual stimulation, exploration and continued personal growth.
Meaning, values, connectedness, inner coherence and our relationship with something larger than ourselves.
Your professional transformation
HNTP is designed to move you beyond knowing nutrition—to seeing the whole person, connecting the wider clinical picture and coaching with greater clarity and confidence.
From learning as a student to guiding real clients with professional confidence.
Her journey makes the transformation tangible: structured learning, accessible mentorship, internship and the confidence to apply the framework in practice.
The outcome is not merely another certificate.
It is a new way of seeing, thinking and practising.
How your clients experience you
HNTP develops more than subject knowledge. It develops the ability to listen beyond the presenting problem, understand the person in context and guide change with structure and compassion.
“I want to become one such kind of a coach.”
She arrived looking for weight loss. What stayed with her was the experience of being heard, having space to be vulnerable and discovering a deeper way of caring for herself.
The person is understood before the intervention is prescribed.
The conversation makes room for lifestyle, relationships, emotions and lived experience.
Knowledge becomes a compassionate, personalised process the client can actually follow.
This is how professional knowledge becomes trust.
See if HNTP is right for you →Where you belong
HolistiCon is where the learning becomes visible—coaches present their work, clients share their journeys, healthcare professionals exchange perspectives and the community learns together.
From learning together to presenting what you learned.
Not a staged classroom exercise. A real coach, a real case and a professional community prepared to listen, question, reflect and grow together.
Build the conceptual and clinical foundation.
Bring the framework into real client work.
Articulate your reasoning and share what you observed.
Help the wider community learn from your experience.
One day, this may be your case, your voice and your community.
Continuing education beyond the course
HNTP is not a course you complete and leave behind. It is a living learning community where coaches keep revisiting lessons, discussing real cases and strengthening their thinking together—week after week.
Senior and junior coaches revisit lessons together, discuss module content in peer groups, compare perspectives and learn from a growing history of client cases. Mentors also join selected sessions, while dedicated WhatsApp groups keep questions and chapter discussions moving between meetings.
Two case presentations showing how coaches organise observations, interventions and client context for professional discussion.
Two further real-world cases connecting nutrition, lifestyle, emotional wellbeing and individual client experience.
These are two examples from the 6th Anniversary CNE Series—part of an ongoing and growing library of case-based learning. Case discussions are educational; individual outcomes vary.
Structure the case and articulate your clinical reasoning.
Explore what was observed, assumed, missed or learned.
Bring nutrition, lifestyle, physiology and human context together.
Return to practice with clearer thinking and better questions.
Learn the framework once. Keep deepening it with the community.
Professional possibilities beyond the course
HNTP can change not only how you earn, but how you work, contribute and are recognised: fewer transactional appointments, deeper client journeys, greater professional satisfaction and work worth presenting.
When every engagement ends with a diet chart or a short list of recommendations, both the client relationship and the professional value of your work remain constrained.
Package your expertise into a defined client experience—one that gives you space to listen, personalise, review progress and support meaningful change over time.
Premium positioning becomes credible when it is supported by a clear process, thoughtful documentation, consistent follow-up and an experience the client can understand and value. HNTP helps you develop the professional foundation from which such programmes can be built.
Decide how many clients you can serve well instead of filling every available appointment.
Shape the duration, touchpoints and support around your expertise and the people you serve.
Build a working rhythm around deep client work, professional development and the life you want to lead.
Coaches learn to document their work, communicate their reasoning and step into professional spaces— from HolistiCon case presentations to papers, publications, conferences, panels and awards.
This preview will become a living visual archive of HNTP coaches presenting, publishing and receiving recognition.
Explore the coach recognition gallery →The opportunity is not only to earn more. It is to become known for work that matters.
₹36,000 is the current HNW coaching charge, not a promise of coach income or client results. Programme duration typically varies from 8–12 hours according to the client and the coach's professional discretion. Independent fees and earnings vary with experience, scope, market, client acquisition, delivery and performance.Freedom with a professional pathway
Your practice can travel with you. And as your competence grows, a clear pathway can connect professional freedom with certification, accreditation, visibility and opportunity.
HNTP creates a foundation. Certification recognises demonstrated competence. MMM accreditation is a further selective distinction for ALSM Certified Coaches who meet its standards.
Learn the framework through HNTP, the training programme owned by DHEVI OPC Private Limited, and begin applying the approach.
Demonstrate the required learning and competence to earn recognition as an ALSM Certified Coach.
Qualifying ALSM coaches may progress to the DHHEWI-owned MMM initiative through additional performance and selection standards.
Every MMM Accredited Coach is an ALSM Certified Coach. Not every ALSM Certified Coach is MMM accredited.
Eligible accredited coaches can be presented on the DHHEWI-owned HNW website and professional platform.
Receive access to suitable client opportunities sourced through the HNW platform owned by DHHEWI OPC Private Limited.
Use documented cases, presentations and professional contributions to build credible digital visibility.
Freedom does not have to mean practising alone. It can mean choosing how you work—and growing with a platform behind you.
Certification, MMM accreditation, platform listing and client opportunities are subject to the applicable assessment, selection, performance and availability criteria. They are not guaranteed by enrolment in HNTP. DHEVI OPC Private Limited owns ALSM and HNTP; DHHEWI OPC Private Limited owns HNW and the MMM initiative.Chronic disease does not exist in isolation from the life being lived.
HNTP explores how nutrition, behaviour, physical activity, sleep, stress, relationships, environment and other determinants of health interact with human physiology.
The objective is to help learners connect the wider context of a person's life with the biological processes involved in health and chronic disease.
Physical · Psycho-emotional · Social · Relationship · Vocational · Academic · Spiritual
Food · Movement · Sleep · Stress · Behaviour · Relationships · Work · Environment
The biological processes through which lifestyle, environment and individual factors interact.
Understanding contributing factors, progression, clinical context and opportunities for intervention.
Applying nutrition and lifestyle strategies alongside appropriate medical care, monitoring and professional judgement.
The objective is not to replace medicine. It is to understand what medicine alone may not address.
Seven modules designed to change not merely what you know — but how you observe, question and understand health.
HNTP begins with the foundations of Holistic Nutrition, explores the origins and context of illness, introduces tools for transformation, and ultimately moves toward clinical application.
Establishing the foundations of Holistic Nutrition and learning to look beyond food alone when understanding human health.
Exploring life, health and the human organism through a wider lens before approaching disease.
Examining the conditions, influences and processes that may contribute to the development and progression of illness.
Moving from identifying dysfunction toward understanding the possibilities for restoration, adaptation and meaningful change.
Exploring practical approaches that support behavioural, lifestyle and personal transformation.
Bringing the framework together and learning how Holistic Nutrition principles can be applied in real-world health and chronic disease contexts.
Extending the foundation through additional perspectives, questions and topics relevant to the practice of Holistic Nutrition.
HNTP learners also receive access to selected bonus learning, mentor updates, recordings and additional educational resources that complement the foundation course.
Knowledge becomes meaningful when you can apply it.
HNTP learning extends beyond lectures into real-world case discussions, intervention planning, follow-up and outcome review.
Learners encounter hundreds of real-world cases across chronic disease, metabolic health and complex lifestyle presentations.
A 56-year-old man with diabetes, fatigue, relationship distress and a history of three heart attacks.
Metabolic health · cardiovascular risk · lifestyle · relationships · patient-centred intervention
A 30-year-old lawyer with PCOS, irregular menstrual cycles, overweight and micronutrient deficiencies.
Physical nutrition · metabolic health · psycho-emotional context · family environment · fertility
A 29-year-old woman living with chronic pain and inflammation, followed through a structured 120-day intervention.
Inflammation · movement · recovery · lifestyle factors · long-term symptom tracking
An 83-year-old woman with more than a decade of bowel symptoms, disturbed sleep, weakness and loss of independence.
Gut health · nutrition · sleep · strength · independence · quality of life
Different conditions. Different lives. The same discipline of looking at the whole person.
Case discussions are educational in nature. Individual outcomes vary, and nutrition and lifestyle interventions should complement appropriate medical evaluation, treatment and professional judgement.
It is designed for serious learners who want to understand chronic disease beyond protocols, prescriptions and diet charts.
Your professional background matters. But so does the way you think, question, observe and learn.
HNTP brings together learners from diverse health, nutrition and allied professional backgrounds.
Applicants from other relevant backgrounds with a serious interest in health and lifestyle medicine may also be considered.
The willingness to keep asking why — especially when the obvious answer feels incomplete.
The ability to connect information rather than simply memorise protocols.
The confidence to say “I don't know” and remain open to learning, questioning and revision.
The ability to see the human being before seeing the diagnosis.
A desire to move beyond knowing — toward observing, applying and learning from outcomes.
You need to be willing to question, observe, unlearn and learn again.
Can you think beyond the obvious?
The Chronic Disease Conqueror Challenge is HNTP's scholarship assessment for applicants who want to demonstrate their clinical thinking, curiosity, empathy and readiness to learn.
This is not a discount campaign. It is a selection pathway for serious applicants.
Register your interest and tell us briefly about your professional and learning background.
Choose real clinical stories and demonstrate observation, connection and reasoning.
Reflect on empathy, humility, clarity, coachability, purpose and readiness to learn.
Qualifying applicants are considered for scholarship support based on overall performance.
Qualifying applicants may receive scholarships ranging from 60% to 90%.
Scholarship awards are based on assessment performance and are not guaranteed.
The Challenge is designed to identify applicants who show the thinking, attitude and learning readiness that HNTP values.
HNTP is designed for depth, not speed.
The foundation course includes 27 lessons across 7 modules, together with topic discussions, clinical perspectives and additional learning that bring the overall experience close to 100 hours.
You can progress at your own pace, revisit lessons and continue learning across desktop, tablet and mobile.
Each topic extends beyond the principal lesson into discussion, questions, application and clinical context — helping ideas become usable rather than merely memorable.
HNTP encourages continued exploration through additional learning formats that help connect medicine, nutrition, lifestyle, behaviour and human experience.
HNTP learners become part of an active professional learning community where ideas, cases, questions and experiences are continually exchanged.
HNTP learning also extends into community events and opportunities where learners can meet, present, discuss and grow together.
There is no race to finish HNTP. The objective is to change how you see.
HNTP was created from a simple conviction: chronic disease cannot always be understood by looking only at the diagnosis, the prescription or the diet chart.
Dr. Suresh Kumar Vunnamatla is a physician and educator whose work focuses on nutrition, lifestyle, metabolic health and the wider determinants that shape human wellbeing.
Through HNTP, he brings together clinical reasoning, Holistic Nutrition, Lifestyle Medicine and real-world case learning to help health professionals develop a broader and more connected way of understanding chronic disease.
“The goal is not to give learners more answers. It is to help them ask better questions.”
Learn to examine what is accepted, what is observed and what still needs explanation.
Understand physiology within the context of the life, environment and relationships around it.
Observe, apply, follow, reflect and allow real-world experience to refine thinking.
HNTP is designed to be serious, flexible and accessible.
Here are the questions most prospective learners usually want answered before they begin.
Yes. HNTP is self-paced. You can progress through the course around your professional and personal schedule, revisit lessons and return to discussions when needed.
The foundation course contains 27 lessons across 7 modules. When the lesson discussions, clinical perspectives and additional learning are included, the overall learning experience approaches 100 hours.
Yes. HNTP can be accessed across desktop, tablet and mobile, allowing you to continue learning across devices.
No. HNTP looks at Holistic Nutrition across seven dimensions: physical, psycho-emotional, social, relationship, vocational, academic and spiritual nourishment.
Yes. Real-world cases, case discussions, follow-up and outcome review form an important part of how HNTP learners connect concepts with practical chronic-disease work.
Yes. HNTP has a defined certification framework, including different pathways based on participation and demonstrated learning.
Learn about HNTP certification →No. The Challenge is the scholarship pathway for applicants who want to demonstrate their clinical thinking and readiness to learn. Direct admission to HNTP remains a separate route.
Choose the pathway that fits where you are today.
HNTP is a foundation. What you build on it depends on how deeply you choose to learn.