Course Description

The Primal Health and Nutrition Expert Certification Course provides the most in-depth and up-to-date ancestral health, nutrition and lifestyle education in the world. You will graduate with a deep understanding of how to reprogram your genes for optimal wellness, which food groups are best for the human body and why, how to develop lifelong fitness while avoiding injury and burnout, and so much more.

This course is comprised of 14 comprehensive chapters containing text, video, and audio, to accommodate all learning types. It is the first of three courses that make up the Primal Health Coach Certification path. 

To learn more about the Primal Health and Nutrition Expert Certification or the more comprehensive Primal Health Coach Certification Course, including how to enroll, click here to book a call with our Admissions Director.

Course Instructors

Co-Founder and Instructor Mark Sisson

Mark Sisson is a celebrated best-selling health and fitness author credited as the “godfather” of paleo/primal and a leading figure in the ancestral health community. He is a former world-class distance runner, triathlete and Ironman competitor, and coach to hundreds of professional athletes. An avid academic, Mark was a pre-med candidate and earned a biology degree from Williams College. He served for 15 years as chairman of the International Triathlon Union (ITU) Anti-Doping Commission and as the ITU’s liaison to the International Olympic Committee. He began sharing his vast nutrition science knowledge with the ancestral health community by way of his award-winning blog, Mark’s Daily Apple. Mark teamed up with other leading experts to create the Primal Health Coach Institute certification program, the world’s first coaching program based on the evolutionary health movement.

Senior Instructor Erin Power

For 25 years, Erin Power balanced her full-time Marketing and Advertising career with a part-time career in the fitness industry as a trainer and fitness instructor. She made the leap to full-time health coaching in 2004, and in that time has helped over 600 individual clients find freedom from food fixation, and achieve an effortless relationship with food. These days she's one of the leaders at the helm of developing curriculum for Primal Health Coach Institute®, and supporting the business development efforts of our graduates. She's also the co-host of Health Coach Radio, the podcast by health coaches, for health coaches. Erin lives outside of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on a hobby farm in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome from Mark Sisson and Erin Power

    2. Course Overview

    3. Downloading Files Within the Course

    4. Meet Your Faculty and Staff

    1. Important: Legal Matters

    2. Disclaimer and Copyright Notice

    3. Support

    1. Introduction

    2. Ebooks

    3. Audiobooks

    4. 2025 Webinar Schedule

    5. Archived Webinars

    6. The Council of Holistic Health Educators

    7. Peer and Faculty Support & Connection via Facebook

    1. Introduction Video

    2. Why PHCI?

    3. Why Ancestral Health?

    1. Introduction Video

    2. Chapter 1 Curriculum - Audio

    3. Chapter Overview

    4. Quick Facts

    5. Genes 101

    6. Gene Expression, Epigenetics, and Genetic Adaptation

    7. Chronic/Systemic Inflammation

    8. Chapter Summary and References

    9. Coaching Your Clients

    10. Familial Genes - Audio Supplement

    11. Genetic Diversity - Audio Supplement

    12. Changing Habits - Audio Supplement

    13. Chapter 1 Exam

    1. Introduction Video

    2. Chapter 2 Curriculum - Audio

    3. Chapter Overview

    4. Quick Facts

    5. The Primal Laws

    6. Evolutionary Health

    7. Primal Humans; Modern Humans; and Aging

    8. Chapter Summary and References

    9. Coaching Your Clients

    10. Primal Blueprint Laws - Audio Supplement

    11. Neanderthal - Audio Supplement

    12. Chapter 2 Exam

About this course

  • 238 lessons
  • 2.5 hours of video content

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