Foundations
Explore a subject for free, before you commit to it
Every field has a free course here: short readings drawn from the journal, and knowledge checks that save your progress as you go. New quizzes are added each week.
Certificates belong to the Certified Programmes. Foundations is where you build the understanding those programmes assume.
- 7
- free courses, one per field
- 42
- readings from the journal
- 49
- knowledge checks
- Weekly
- a new quiz every week
Begin here
The Five Ideas
A five-question knowledge check on the ideas everything at SOMA Academy is built on. About 5 minutes.
This week’s quiz · Toxins and Xenobiotics
Knowledge check: Xenobiotics and exposure
Read first: What are xenobiotics, and why some of them linger
Choose your field
Seven fields, one free course through each
Not sure where to begin? Most fields lean on Metabolic Health, so it makes a natural first.
2 courses
FoundationsAll fieldsThe Five IdeasA five-question knowledge check on the ideas everything at SOMA Academy is built on. About 5 minutes.FreeView →
FoundationsMetabolic Health and DiabetesMetabolic Health and Diabetes: FoundationsWhy a fasting glucose can read normal for a decade while the system holding it there works harder every year. Five readings,…FreeView →
FoundationsHormonesHormones: FoundationsWhy a hormone level is a property of the moment the sample was taken rather than of the person. Five readings, a…FreeView →
FoundationsCellular Health and MitochondriaCellular Health and Mitochondria: FoundationsEnergy is made moment to moment, in the tissues spending it, and nothing on a routine panel measures the making. Five readings,…FreeView →
FoundationsOzone and Regenerative TherapiesOzone and Regenerative Therapies: FoundationsThe dose that separates a signal from an injury, and an honest map of where the evidence is strong, thin, or absent.…FreeView →
FoundationsGut and ImmunityGut and Immunity: FoundationsThe largest concentration of immune tissue in the body sits one cell layer from everything you have ever swallowed. Five readings, a…FreeView →
FoundationsLongevityLongevity: FoundationsTwo people born in the same year can be a decade apart inside, and unlike the calendar that gap moves. Five readings,…FreeView →
FoundationsToxins and XenobioticsToxins and Xenobiotics: FoundationsThe body clears foreign compounds constantly. Everything interesting happens when the arrivals outpace the exit. Five readings, a check on each, free.FreeView →
Deep DiveMetabolic Health and DiabetesFasting insulin: what it tells you, and when it liesHow to read a fasting insulin and a HOMA-IR properly: the units that make results absurd, what the arithmetic actually means, why…₹1,000.00View →
Deep DiveMetabolic Health and DiabetesReading a glucose curve: what continuous monitoring actually showsLearn to read a continuous glucose trace rather than react to it: what the sensor physically measures, which summary numbers are borrowed…₹1,000.00View →
Deep DiveHormonesReading a cortisol curve: the shapes, and what each one meansLearn to interpret a cortisol result properly: what serum, saliva and urine each actually measure, the timing error that makes most curves…₹1,000.00View →
Deep DiveHormonesReading a thyroid panel in full: conversion, binding and the limits of TSHTake a whole thyroid panel apart: what each test answers, why totals mislead when binding shifts, why TSH amplifies, and the illness,…₹1,000.00View →
Deep DiveCellular Health and MitochondriaAssessing mitochondrial function without a biopsyWhat each available measure of mitochondrial function actually reads, from exercise tolerance and cardiopulmonary testing to lactate, organic acids and copy number,…₹1,000.00View →
Deep DiveCellular Health and MitochondriaRedox in practice: reading oxidative status honestlyWork out what an oxidative stress panel can and cannot tell one person, why the glutathione ratio matters more than any total,…₹1,000.00View →
Deep DiveOzone and Regenerative TherapiesHow to judge a therapy: building an evidence map that survives contact with marketingA transferable method for working out what any therapy is actually supported for: the hierarchy of evidence and its real limits, relative…₹1,000.00View →
Deep DiveOzone and Regenerative TherapiesOzone in practice: dose, route, and the screening that comes firstHow a course of ozone is actually reasoned about: the arithmetic that makes two protocols comparable, why the interval between sessions is…₹1,000.00View →
Deep DiveGut and ImmunityAn elimination that actually ends: structuring a food trial so it answers somethingLearn how a food trial is built so that it produces an answer: why the reintroduction is the experiment, how the question…₹1,000.00View →
Deep DiveGut and ImmunityWhen someone asks about leaky gut: what the question is really asking, and what to do with itTake a barrier conviction seriously without endorsing an unvalidated test: where permeability genuinely rises, the differential that actually explains these presentations, why…₹1,000.00View →
Deep DiveLongevityBuilding a panel worth repeating: markers, intervals, and reading a trajectoryHow a small longevity panel is actually built: what each marker adds that the others do not, what stays off it and…₹1,000.00View →
Deep DiveLongevityStrength as a measurable variable: assessing and building capacity that lastsHow to read the cheap measurements that track independence, grip, gait speed, the five-times sit-to-stand and the short physical performance battery: how…₹1,000.00View →
Deep DiveToxins and XenobioticsSupporting elimination: separating the mechanisms that hold up from the ones that are soldLearn the conjugation chemistry, the gut loop and the enzyme induction and inhibition behind clearance well enough to test any detox claim…₹1,000.00View →
Deep DiveToxins and XenobioticsTaking an exposure history that actually changes somethingHow to take the exposure history properly when no test will answer the question: a working life rather than a job title,…₹1,000.00View →
Certified ProgrammeMetabolic Health and DiabetesDiabetes RewiredA functional medicine approach to type 2 diabetes remission and long-term metabolic health, open to clinicians and to anyone who wants the…₹10,000.00View →
Certified ProgrammeHormonesHormone CorrectionPart 3 of the Nuances of Functional Medicine trilogy: the clinical science and art of safe, effective hormone therapy. Thyroid, adrenal and…₹35,000.00View →
Certified ProgrammeCellular Health and MitochondriaCellular OptimisationPart 1 of the Nuances of Functional Medicine trilogy: cellular metabolism, detoxification, oxidative stress and repair, with evidence-based adjuncts including ozone therapy…₹35,000.00View →
Certified ProgrammeOzone and Regenerative TherapiesOzone & Its MiraclesPart 2 of the Nuances of Functional Medicine trilogy, the clinical science of medical ozone: mechanisms of action, indications, dosing protocols, safety…₹35,000.00View →Nothing in that combination yet.Try another level, or see every course.
How it works
Read, test yourself, go deeper
1ReadEach field gathers its readings from the journal, so the writing lives in one place and stays current.
2Test yourselfShort knowledge checks with the reasoning explained after you answer. Your progress is saved, and new quizzes arrive each week.
3Go deeperWhen a subject holds your attention, the Deep Dives take one question apart and the Certified Programmes teach the field in full.
Then
When the free course is done, the field is still there.
Every Foundations course ends where its Deep Dives begin, and the Certified Programme stands behind them.