Become a licensed
Vitalist Practitioner
And study for your
Vitality Practitioner Certification
Once you sign up to become a Vitalist Practitioner you'll have:-
- Access to The John Ogden Academy to undertake your Vitality Practitioner Certification
- An accreditation certificate by Complimentary Medical Association (Upon Academy completion)
- Access to the Vitality Screening System
- Your clinic listed on our “Find a Clinic” page
- The Vitality Screening Toolkit
- Access to the WhatsApp vitalist support group
- Receive new and upcoming well-being research and information
- Q&A session with our founder, Dr John Ogden
- Ongoing support
Ready to join us?
Choose the depth that matches your ambition
Preventative healthcare is moving beyond symptom treatment. These pathways blend professional education, clinical equipment, and intelligent software so you can assess, interpret, and track client health with confidence.
The body is one interconnected system; early changes appear long before traditional diagnostics detect problems. Each pathway teaches you how to measure those changes, understand what they mean, and guide clients with structured, accountable preventative care.
What you gain in every pathway
- Assess clients objectively using validated tools.
- Interpret physiological patterns across multiple systems.
- Track adaptation and progress over time.
- Deliver measurable, professionally credible preventative care.
Who these pathways are for
You do not need medical qualifications as this is training you in lifestyle and Fitness
Choose the level of depth and responsibility that matches your goals. Start with foundational screening or progress to full integrative mastery with live blood analysis.
Each step adds capability, confidence, and the ability to deliver clearer, earlier preventative insights to your clients.
Compare the pathways
| Category | Primary Care Training | Advanced Preventative Medicine Programme | Complete Preventative Medicine Programme |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | £585 | £3,995 | £6,095 |
| Core purpose | Foundational preventative screening. | Multi system interpretation using functional ranges. | Full system integrative mastery with live blood analysis. |
| Testing capability | Lifestyle scoring and 6 lead ECG. | More than 42 functional tests revealing early physiological shifts. | Full functional suite plus live blood microscopy and TCM pattern analysis. |
| Depth of insight | Basic physiological interpretation. | Identifies early dysfunction before standard ranges change. | Deepest insight available including real time blood behaviour and energetic regulation. |
| Reporting | Automated ECG and lifestyle reports. | Advanced multi system reporting with functional ranges. | Full system integrative reporting combining biology and traditional patterns. |
| Clinical skill level | Suitable for beginners and early practitioners. | Accessible to anyone ready to deepen understanding with clear step-by-step models. | Designed for practitioners who want to grow into advanced integrative capability at a comfortable pace. |
| Ideal practitioner | Coaches, PTs, nutritionists, and anyone starting their preventative journey. | Practitioners who want to confidently handle more complex cases and learn how systems connect. | Practitioners who want to offer the most complete level of preventative insight. |
| Uniqueness | A simple and effective entry point into preventative screening. | A rare level of functional interpretation most wellness testing lacks. | Combines live blood analysis, functional testing, and TCM in one system. |
| Client impact | Gives clients a clear starting point for lifestyle change. | Helps clients understand issues long before standard tests show problems. | Creates life changing clarity and support for clients who have never found answers elsewhere. |
Pathway overviews
Primary Care Training
This entry-level qualification provides the essential skills needed to begin delivering preventative health screening immediately. It focuses on practical, fast, and reliable assessments that integrate easily into existing practice.
What you gain
- Recognised professional qualification
- Training in preventative screening and ECG fundamentals
- A 6 lead ECG device with automated reporting. This equipment is purely to see if there are any irregularities that may warrant further investigation.
- The ability to measure lifestyle impact and monitor client vulnerability
Who it is for
Nutritionists, personal trainers, lifestyle coaches, and early-career practitioners who want to introduce objective health assessment quickly and effectively.
This pathway forms the foundation for deeper clinical interpretation and prepares you for more advanced training.
Begin with Primary Care Training and introduce measurable screening into your practice.
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Advanced Preventative Medicine Programme
This programme elevates practitioners from basic measurement into genuine clinical interpretation. It teaches you how to understand the body as a connected system and how to identify early physiological shifts long before they appear on standard tests. Explore the cause of what is happening.
A deeper level of accuracy
Most assessments only show whether a client is inside or outside a normal range. This programme teaches you to work with optimal functional ranges, which reveal when a client is moving toward a problem rather than waiting until they cross a diagnostic threshold. This is the level where true prevention becomes possible.
What you learn to interpret
You work with more than 42 instant functional tests that reveal how the body adapts, compensates, and strains under pressure. These include:
- Digestive efficiency and nutrient absorption
- Cardiometabolic load and circulatory efficiency
- Energy regulation, stress load, and recovery capacity
- Kidney function and fluid regulation
- Respiratory compensation and oxygen utilisation
- Autonomic balance and stress recovery patterns
These tests combine to show patterns that explain fatigue, inflammation, poor recovery, chronic stress, and early cardiovascular strain long before traditional testing detects anything unusual.
Why practitioners choose this level
- You gain a structured clinical reasoning model that makes sense of complex and overlapping symptoms
- You can show clients why they feel the way they do using clear, measurable evidence
- You can track adaptation over time and demonstrate the impact of your interventions
- You become the practitioner clients seek out when they have been told their results are normal but they still do not feel well
Progress to the Advanced Programme and offer insights that standard testing cannot provide.
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Complete Preventative Medicine Programme
This is the highest level of preventative training and the only place where practitioners can access this full combination of Western physiology, Traditional Chinese Medicine, functional testing, and live blood analysis in one integrated system. No other vitality screening software or training pathway offers this depth of insight or this level of clinical capability.
A level of insight you cannot find anywhere else
Most systems rely on questionnaires, wearables, or basic biometrics. This programme gives you direct visibility into the internal environment of the body. Live blood analysis allows you to observe what is happening in real time, revealing patterns that no other screening method can show. When combined with the full functional testing suite, you gain a complete picture of how the body is adapting, compensating, and responding to stress.
You can see:
- Red blood cell shape, flexibility, and oxygen carrying efficiency
- Early inflammatory activity before symptoms appear
- Immune system behaviour and stress load
- Nutrient deficiencies and digestive inefficiencies
- Oxidative stress and toxic load indicators
This level of detail as far as we are aware is not available through any other preventative health platform. It gives practitioners the ability to identify issues before they appear on standard tests and to intervene with precision.
Expanded diagnostic capability
This programme integrates:
- Full functional testing suite
- Live blood microscopy
- Traditional Chinese Medicine pattern interpretation
- Energetic and regulatory system assessment
- Multi system correlation models
You learn how ancient pattern recognition and modern physiology align, giving you a richer and more complete understanding of the body. This allows you to explain not only what is happening but why it is happening and what needs to change first.
Why this level changes lives
Practitioners who complete this programme consistently report that they can help clients in ways they never could before. They can finally explain persistent fatigue, chronic inflammation, poor recovery, hormonal imbalance, and long standing stress patterns with clarity and evidence. Clients feel understood, supported, and empowered because they can see their physiology changing over time.
This programme creates practitioners who can deliver the deepest preventative insight available. It is the most comprehensive and transformative level of training, and it sets you apart in a way no other vitality screening system can match.
Master the complete methodology and offer clients a level of preventative insight they cannot find anywhere else.
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This is where the magic happens
The Vitality Screening System interprets the results from the equipment in your Vitality Screening Toolkit. The system produces a report that you will learn to interpret and provides the root causes of why your client is not living with full vitality. The recommendations report also details simple and sustainable interventions which will support them to live at their optimum, creating vitality so your client can experience lifelong well-being.
Vitality Screening Toolkit
The Vitality Screening Toolkit comprises of 11 pieces of medical-grade equipment. Each provides valuable data which you feed into the Vitality Screening System, providing the results which will enable you to work with your client to reach optimal well-being.
Toolkit - What's included
A series of minimally invasive blood tests, urine test, system pH, analysis of the autonomic nervous system to measure stress and circulatory analysis, blood pressure, pulse and oxygenation, ECG, lung function, physical make up and ratios of muscle, bone, fat and retained water and, finally, the metabolic age.
Instant Reporting
Once you've completed all the tests in the screening, your self-branded reports are available immediately, showing which parameters are in the optimum green zone. Those not in the optimum zone will include narrative explaining what's causing the issue and a further report details how to make improvements.
View a sample reportWhatsApp Group
Experienced and new vitalists alike sometimes get stumped. It may be an issue you’ve never been seen before, a glitch with your equipment or a question you’re not sure how to answer. Our WhatsApp group is usually monitored, so in these time of need, we've got your back.
New & upcoming well-being research and information
We keep our eyes peeled and ensure we keep ahead of the trends, research and information. We’ll curate it and pass it on to you. Giving you the confidence, you’ll always have the latest information to hand.
Q&A Sessions
Learning is a journey. If we think we’re done, we miss so much. We host regular live Q&A sessions with our team giving you the opportunity to learn live and keep your knowledge up to date. If any of our vitalists have any specific topics they would like covering, we will do that too.
Ongoing Support
Always by your side. Learning something new takes time. We want to see you achieve so you can make an impact in the world. We will continue to act as your mentors throughout your journey with us, providing you the support you need to be a competent and confident vitalist.
Ready to join us?
Pricing
Become a licensee. Then, pay for what you use.
£5 per screening (5 initial screenings are free)
| Package Details | |
|---|---|
| Test Kit | |
| Insulin Resistance Test View Sample Report | |
| Insulin Resistance + ECG Test View Sample Report | |
| Sports Test* View Sample Report | |
| Super Sports Test* View Sample Report | |
| Video based Training | |
| CMA Accredited Training Course (Coming Soon) | |
| Support | |
* Additional equipment required.
£5 per screening (10 initial screenings are free)
| Package Details | |
|---|---|
| Test Kit | |
| Insulin Resistance Test View Sample Report | |
| Insulin Resistance + ECG Test View Sample Report | |
| Sports Test View Sample Report | |
| Super Sports Test* View Sample Report | |
| Lifestyle & Fitness Screening View Sample Report | |
| Custom Tests | |
| Training (Virtual In Person) | |
| CMA Accredited Training Course | |
| Support | |
* Additional equipment required.
Training
Access to our video-based training programme, builds with a digital reference manual.
Tool-Kit
All the medical-grade equipment you need to screen and assess your clients.
Ongoing Support
We're there to support you, via multi channels, from tech issues to difficult diagnoses.
Client Management
The system provides the assessments and recommendations, manages your client results.
Registering your details
During the sign up process you'll need to have your company or practice name and a company logo, used in the customised reports produced by the system and your photo to go alongside your listing in the "Find a Clinic" page on our website.
After signing up, your initial 10 screenings are free, to give you time to learn the system, until you're ready for paying customers. Then each screening is just £5.