Primal Health Coach Institute: Primal Health and Nutrition Expert Certification

No prerequisites are required to enroll. The course is designed for experienced and aspiring health professionals who want to add ancestral nutrition expertise to their practice, as well as anyone interested in improving their own health through a primal lifestyle. It also complements the Primal Fitness Coach Certification — graduates who hold that credential earn certified Primal Health Coach status by completing this course.

The curriculum spans 14 chapters covering primal health, nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle. You’ll study how to reprogram genes that affect health and longevity, the 10 Primal Blueprint laws that drove human evolution, how to reverse insulin resistance and other disease risk factors, and why diet determines roughly 80 percent of body composition. Chapters cover metabolic flexibility and fuel partitioning, the truth about fat and cholesterol, the case against grains, how to choose the best primal foods, and practical shopping, cooking, and dining habits.

The fitness chapters address frequent low-level movement, brief high-intensity strength and sprint workouts, and how to develop lifelong fitness while avoiding injury and burnout. The program closes with a Primal Lifestyle chapter and a bonus chapter on Programming for Primal Health, which walks you through coaching clients across a 12-week onboarding-to-completion flow. Each chapter pairs a video introduction, written overview, quick facts, audio lessons, a coaching-your-clients section, and a multiple-choice exam.

The course is co-taught by Mark Sisson, co-founder of Primal Health Coach Institute, bestselling ancestral-health author, and creator of Mark’s Daily Apple, and Erin Power, the institute’s Coaching and Course Director. Mark holds a biology degree from Williams College and served 15 years as chairman of the International Triathlon Union Anti-Doping Commission. Erin has worked with over 500 individual coaching clients and co-hosts Health Coach Radio.

The format is fully self-paced and remote. After enrollment, you receive login instructions to a password-protected portal with the 14-chapter curriculum, educational resources, and a private Facebook community. Each chapter includes an introduction video, lessons in both audio and text, quick facts, a coaching-your-clients section, and a chapter exam you must pass before moving on. Graduates have lifetime access to the materials and an open invitation to monthly live webinars.

The curriculum spans 14 chapters covering primal health, nutrition, fitness, and lifestyle. You’ll study how to reprogram genes that affect health and longevity, the 10 Primal Blueprint laws that drove human evolution, how to reverse insulin resistance and other disease risk factors, and why diet determines roughly 80 percent of body composition. Chapters cover metabolic flexibility and fuel partitioning, the truth about fat and cholesterol, the case against grains, how to choose the best primal foods, and practical shopping, cooking, and dining habits.

The fitness chapters address frequent low-level movement, brief high-intensity strength and sprint workouts, and how to develop lifelong fitness while avoiding injury and burnout. The program closes with a Primal Lifestyle chapter and a bonus chapter on Programming for Primal Health, which walks you through coaching clients across a 12-week onboarding-to-completion flow. Each chapter pairs a video introduction, written overview, quick facts, audio lessons, a coaching-your-clients section, and a multiple-choice exam.