A 90-day guided group coaching program with live calls, lessons with 50+ world-class experts — plus, graduate with an internationally accredited certification in nutrition.
Featuring Dr Mark Hyman, Dr Bruce Lipton, Dr Joe Dispenza, Dr Christiane Northrup, Christa Orecchio, and many more…
You've tried gluten-free. Dairy-free. Sugar-free. Maybe paleo, maybe plant-based, maybe a stretch of keto. You've got a cupboard of supplements you're not sure are doing anything. You've read the books. Listened to the podcasts. Done a cleanse or three.
Maybe it's been a few years of just feeling off. Maybe it's been a lot longer than that — and a lot more serious. Specialists. Scans. Medications that manage a symptom and create two new ones. Thousands of dollars. Sometimes tens of thousands.
And you're still tired. Still lost. Still inflamed. Still waking up feeling like your body belongs to someone else.
Still in the waiting rooms. Still on the medications. Still being told this is just how it is now.
It's not your fault, and you're not broken. You've just been handed the wrong map.
Every diet fixes what you eat. Every protocol fixes one symptom. Every specialist fixes one organ. But your gut, your hormones, your nervous system, your sleep, your immune system, your chronic condition — they're not seven separate problems.
They're one system having one long conversation.
Treat them one at a time, or in the wrong order, and the healing never sticks. It can't.
I know it because I watched it nearly take my dad out. Five years. Tens of thousands of dollars. Six medications. A doctor managing his decline. And I know it because fixing it — properly, in the right order — is the whole reason Food Matters exists.
I'll tell you that story in a minute. First, let me show you what real healing actually looks like.
Most nutrition programs are a pile of information. Eat this, don't eat that, here's a module on hormones, here's one on gut health, good luck.
That's not how the body heals.
You build the foundation first. You clear the pathways before you try to rebuild. You fix the gut before you chase the hormones — because the gut is running the hormones.
You calm the nervous system before you expect any of it to hold — because a stressed body won't heal, full stop.
So we built the program as a sequence. Ten steps. Each one sets up the next. We've taken thousands of students through it, in 35 countries, and it's the same ten steps every time — because the body doesn't care what's trending.
Here's the whole thing.
90 days. Ten steps. In the order the body actually heals.
Cut through twenty years of contradictory advice and learn how food truly fuels the body.
What the labels hide, what the industry sells, and what to actually avoid.
The compounds that fight inflammation, restore energy, and protect you long-term.
Support the body's natural detox systems so it can do what it was built to do.
Heal the microbiome. Because once the gut settles, the rest of the body follows.
Decode the signals. Restore mood, energy, and weight regulation — naturally.
The nervous system reset most programs skip. Without this, nothing holds.
Build the body's defenses from the inside out.
The latest research on prevention and recovery, in plain language.
The herbs, spices, and natural compounds that have healed humans for thousands of years.
Each step sets up the next. That's why it holds.
I should tell you why any of this exists. It's because of my dad.
About eighteen years ago, my father was sick. Properly sick. Chronic fatigue syndrome, anxiety, depression, and weight he couldn't shift, on a stack of medications — and getting worse, not better.
And here's the part that still gets me. He'd spent five years trying to fix it. Tens of thousands of dollars. Specialist after specialist. Test after test. Medication adjustments, second opinions, the lot.
Five years, tens of thousands of dollars — and he was worse at the end of it than the start. Six medications. Over 50 pounds overweight. A doctor who'd basically run out of ideas and was managing the decline.
His career had ground to a halt. His marriage was strained. He'd stopped doing the things he loved — and the man I'd grown up with was disappearing inside the man I was now watching sleep through the afternoons.
I'd flown home and was watching him sleep most of the day. That's the moment, honestly. That's the one.
A bit of knowledge found its way to us — through what would eventually become Food Matters. The idea that food isn't just fuel. That the body, given the right inputs in the right order, knows how to heal itself.
So we tried the only thing nobody had properly tried. We changed what he ate. How he moved. How he handled stress. In the right order.
Within months, he was off all six medications. He lost the weight. He got his life back.
Five years and tens of thousands of dollars got him nowhere. A few months of the right knowledge gave him his life back.
That's the whole reason Food Matters exists.
Since then, my team and I have spent eighteen years building this — the films, the books, and the Food Matters Institute. The program you're reading about has now taken thousands of students through that same process, in 35 countries — many of them with chronic conditions that the system had given up on.
Here's what all of it has taught me: most people walking around feeling terrible aren't broken, and they're not lazy. They've just never been handed the actual instructions — the way my dad wasn't, for five years.
So we built the program I wish he'd had on day one.
— James Co-Founder, Food Matters
Before you read any further — let me be straight about who this is and isn't for.
Wherever you're starting from — curious, caring, or called — you're in the right place.
Now — the icing.
Here's something we noticed years ago. People come to heal themselves. And about a third of the way through, a lot of them think: hang on. I could do this for other people.
So we built the rest of the program for exactly that moment.
You don't have to touch it. The 10-step method stands completely on its own. But if you catch the bug — if you finish and think I want to take this further — it's all already there, included, waiting for you.
Want to coach others? Here's how. Christa Orecchio teaches you the coaching skills. Marie Forleo teaches you the mindset. You learn how to actually sit across from someone and help them heal — with confidence, structure, and accountability.
You came here to heal. You leave with the credentials and the business skills to take it as far as you want — without ever starting over.
When you complete the program, you don't just feel better and understand more. You walk away with a credential that's recognized in 35+ countries. Insurable. Legitimate. The kind of thing you could build a career on if you wanted to.
Most people enroll to heal themselves and treat the certification as a bonus at the end. Some enroll for the certification and get the healing as the bonus. Both are fine. The program's the same either way.
Three independent bodies stand behind it:

Approved health & wellness coach training. Graduates earn 32 CE/CPD credits.

Qualify for professional membership and insurance as a Nutrition Consultant in 35+ countries.

Internationally recognized for educational quality.
I could keep telling you it works. It's better if they do.
“I was able to put my autoimmune disorder into remission without meds — solely through nutrition. Now my goal is to fine-tune my own nutritional guide for others in the same situation.”Rebekah, Graduate
“I’m 59, and I’ve had rheumatoid arthritis since my 20s, along with a slew of other autoimmune issues. I’m on a year of health focus — with a mission to be healthier at 60 than I was at 40.”Susan, Graduate
“I thought I was doing everything right — clean eating, lifestyle changes — but I still felt stuck, struggling with unresolved health issues. This showed me the missing pieces, and how to actually move forward with healing.”Megon, Graduate
“My background’s in health and fitness, and this took my knowledge to the next level. It reignited a coaching business I’d put on the back burner.”Maureen, Graduate
“I was trying to start another business when it hit me — why am I not following my passion? I finished the certification and now I’m building my own health business.”Lisa, Graduate
“When I finished I took a week of annual leave just to keep going — I couldn’t get enough of it. I’ve now started my own business sharing recipes and wellbeing tips.”Monica, Graduate
Fair question. There are cheaper nutrition courses. There are free YouTube videos. Honestly — some of step one and step two, you could piece together yourself, if you had a few hundred hours and knew what you were looking for.
But here's what you can't piece together: the sequence. The order. The thing that makes it hold. Plus the accreditation, the printed workbook, the 1:1 call, the monthly coaching, the community, the faculty.
Over nineteen years of making films and building Food Matters, we've sat down with the best minds in natural health. A lot of them became friends. And a lot of them teach inside this program.
Plus we didn't want a course built on a single point of view. So we brought in the people we trust most across gut health, hormones, the nervous system, autoimmunity and chronic illness — and had each of them teach what they know best.

Dr Mark Hyman
Functional Medicine

Dr Joe Dispenza
Neuroscience

Marie Forleo
Mindset & Business

Dr Bruce Lipton
Epigenetics

Dave Asprey
Biohacking

JJ Virgin
Nutrition

Dr Christiane Northrup
Women's Health

Christa Orecchio
Clinical Nutrition

Jim Kwik
Brain Health

Shawn Stevenson
Sleep Science

Dr Josh Axe
Natural Medicine

Dr Tom O’Bryan
Autoimmunity

Dr Libby Weaver
Women's Hormones

Jon Gabriel
Weight Release

Dr Tami Meraglia
Integrative Medicine

David Wolfe
Superfoods

John Robbins
Food & Activism

Nat Kringoudis
Women's Hormones

Dr Pedram Shojai
Eastern Medicine

Vani Hari
Food Investigator
…and over 32 more world-class teachers across health, coaching, and conscious business.
Here's the part most courses skip, and it's the part I'm proudest of.
This isn't a course you log into alone and disappear with. It's a coaching program. Real humans on the other side of it — for the whole 90 days, and for as long as you want them after.
Bring your health history and the thing you've been most worried about. You leave that call knowing exactly where to begin.
Ask questions from James, Laurentine and the team as you go.
Get access to the community and ask questions as you go throughout the program in our private students group.
You get instant access to everything, and you book your 1:1 call with Laurentine. We work out where you should start — because someone with gut issues and someone with an autoimmune diagnosis don't start the same place.
You build the foundation. Steps one through four. You'll feel the first shifts here — usually energy and digestion.
Gut, hormones, nervous system. This is where most people tell us things they'd given up on start to change.
Immunity, chronic disease, plants as medicine. You sit your final assessments. You finish — healed, educated, and internationally accredited.
The coaching and business modules are right there if you want them. The monthly calls keep going. The community's still there.
90 days of intensive coaching. A lifetime of access. Done properly.
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You've got 14 days. Explore the whole program, meet your mentors, start the first steps.
If it's not right, email us and we'll refund every cent. No risk, no pressure.
The program comes with a 300+ page printed workbook — full-color, shipped free to your door. Charts, illustrations, deep dives on hormones, gut health, and chronic illness, room to take notes. Something you can hold, and come back to long after you've finished.
Both. The 10-step method is the same protocol our most severely unwell students have used to take back agency over conditions the system had given up on — and it's the same protocol someone "just feeling off" uses to get back to themselves. The map is the map. Where you are on it is where you start. Having a consulting physician is required, however.
Yes — and you continue working with your doctor throughout. We don't replace medical care, and we don't ask anyone to come off medications. What we do is teach the root-cause work that lets your body do what it was built to do. My father was able to come off his medications using this protocol — but any conversation about medications is a conversation between you and your physician.
Because this isn't a diet, and it isn't a program in the usual sense. It's a sequence — ten steps that follow the order the body actually heals in. Most things you've tried have given you good information in the wrong order, or one piece of the puzzle without the rest. That's why it didn't stick. The sequence is the difference.
Not at all. The 10-step method stands completely on its own — most students enroll exactly for that. The coaching and business modules are right there if you ever decide to take it further, but you don't have to touch them. Heal yourself first. The rest is optional.
No. We teach you how food works — which means by the end you'll know what your body responds to, regardless of label. The principles work whether you end up plant-based, omnivore, or somewhere in between.
Because it's sequenced. You're not handed everything at once. Each step builds on the last. And you've got a real person — Laurentine, on your kickoff call — making sure you start in the right place for your body.
About 3–4 hours a week is plenty. Modules are bite-sized — most students do a little each day rather than long blocks. Everything is lifetime access, so if you fall behind, you pick it back up. No pressure, no expiry.
Instantly. The moment you enroll, the first module is open. You book your kickoff call with Laurentine in week one, and you're off.
Yes. Every module is built on peer-reviewed research and clinical practice. We work with practitioners and researchers who are active in their fields — Dr Mark Hyman, Dr Tom O'Bryan, Christa Orecchio, and many more. The accreditation bodies (NBHWC, IICT, IARC) audit the curriculum.
No. Our students range from their twenties to their seventies. The body heals at every age — the protocols adapt with you.
Yes. On completion of the final assessments you receive an internationally accredited Nutrition Consultant certification, recognized in 35+ countries.
Yes — by three independent bodies: NBHWC (32 CE/CPD credits), IICT (professional membership and insurance), and IARC (educational quality).
Work as a certified Nutrition Consultant, holistic health coach, or wellness practitioner. Many graduates start their own coaching businesses, work inside existing clinics, run group programs, or fold this into an existing practice (PT, nursing, yoga, etc.).
No. Those are regulated titles that vary by country. This program qualifies you as a Nutrition Consultant — a non-medical, holistic practitioner. You're not diagnosing or treating disease; you're helping people change how they eat, move, and live.
A 1:1 kickoff call with Laurentine. Live monthly coaching calls with James and Laurentine. Ongoing chat, email and text support from the team. A global student community. And it all keeps going — for life.
Yes. 10 monthly payments of $349, or one payment of $2,990 (save $2,000).
14-day money-back guarantee. Explore the whole program, meet your mentors, start the first steps. If it's not for you, email us and we refund every cent.
Email support@foodmattersinstitute.com — we read every message and reply quickly.
If you're on the fence, I get it. You've probably been burned by a program before — most people reading this have. That hesitation is fair.
But think about my dad for a second. Five years. Tens of thousands of dollars. And he got worse. The cost of waiting is never zero. Another 90 days of the bloating, the fatigue, the brain fog, the hormones running the show, the diet-of-the-month merry-go-round — that's the real price of "I'll think about it."
90 days from now, you'll have spent 90 days either way. The only question is whether you spend them healing — or stuck.
The enrollment offer's on the table now. $2,000 off, 14-day guarantee, everything included. 18 places remaining for May.
If you're thinking about it — do it.

— JamesCo-Founder, Food Matters