Institute for Integrative Nutrition Reviews 1,802

IIN was a life changer for me. Taking their Health Coach Training Program was one of the best decisions I have made for myself. Being someone who has always wanted to make a difference in the world, IIN was the perfect way to get the ball rolling. The lectures are so helpful and entertaining, and the course itself is set up perfectly so you can learn while still going about your day to day life. Graduating from IIN was one of my proudest moments, and I am excited to continue my education there!

I have just graduated IIN and can say it has exceed my expectations and has changed my life, which is a bold statement! The course is easy to access on a phone or laptop and includes videos as well as text so suits all learning styles. The information is relevant and up to date and the amount of things included is incredible, I was concerned it was going to be mainly about nutrition but it is about so much more! I would recommend everyone to complete IIN whether looking to improve your own health or to set up a Buisness. I have just written my first invoice from the coaching business, less than a month after graduation!

I can't recommend IIN enough. I already had a good foundation in many of the topics covered from my parents but I felt so well supported by IIN and the other students on my course.
It was amazing how each time I felt I needed to learn more about a topic - in the following module it appeared! I know I have so much to learn still and now specialising, however I had already earnt back 4/5th of the course fees by graduation. As soon as I had my coach in training certificate I started to take clients, both free and paid. They were happy and gave me great testimonials too!
I really identified with various lecturers and continue to follow to them now.
I am passionate about holistic health and wellness, and would recommend those who feel the same to invest in the course as its a very well recognised school. There is a lot of 'fluffiness' in the world of coaching and so for me it was fundamental to choose a school that was recognised and well respected.
My health is better now than it has been at any point in my life, aged 41 and IIN encouraged me to do a lot of personal work, as we can't take our clients to a level to which we have not been prepared to go ourselves.

Thankyou once again to Joshua for founding this school that is leading the way in the world of wellness.
I look forward to doing their advanced courses and staying in touch with other course buddies as our careers begin to grow and flourish.

This is a course marks a before and after in the life of most people who take it. While it is true that it is a course to become certified as a Health Coach, it will primarily help you to heal all areas of your life.
This course allowed me to identify concepts that are as important as they are necessary: Empathy, compassion, silence, holistic health, and what I consider most important Bioindividuality.
It is one of the institutes with the best teachers and guests, who depending on your philosophy of life, will surely resonate with you. I also see that it is one of the most recognized and well known institutes worldwide.

I have never requested to be on the IIN email list and have repeatedly tried to unsubscribe yet I still receive their emails daily. Their unsubscribe option does not allow to fully unsubscribe! I also tried emailing directly to take me off their list completely. Today I got duplicate solicitation emails from them!! How do I get off their list??

5 STARS!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ IIN exceeded my expectations, facilitated my personal transformation and provided me a meaningful path to serve others.

My journey through IIN has genuinely changed my life, both personally and professionally. I was referred to study with IIN by a friend, after a discussion surrounding a multitude of autoimmune and mental health diagnoses I had been deeply struggling through. IIN's program marries beautifully into my undergraduate study of psychology. My health coach credential helped me build the skills to be able to effectively communicate as a coach and guided me in finding my focus, which opened doors into a number of health coaching and patient advocacy roles post-graduation. In addition, IIN's curriculumn taught me how to better care for my body and mind holistically, including but not limited to the food that we eat. Making connections within IIN's multidimensional health model opened my mind to the bigger picture and now allows me to best support my clients. I am truly grateful that I was lead to IIN and now I get to be a part of their incredible Alumni community!

Graduating from IIN was one of the greatest experiences of my life!! I am a graduate from The American University in D.C. and have had two incredible careers in my life. One, as a fitness trainer and owner of a fitness company and one, as a board member and board chair of The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale. Those were both amazing times for me and great learning experiences but nothing can compare to IIN. I not only learned so much to coach my clients but I also learned so much about myself. I have also met well over a hundred other coaches from all over the world. I even started a Mastermind group for IIN health coaches (which is free) for coaches all over the world. We have at least 150 members. I started this group three years ago and it is all done virtually. We also have our own admin group. We are now going to be launching a Mastermind group for coaches that live in Europe. I also hit the ground running the day I graduated and after three years of coaching, I have never had a day without a client. I coach my clients virtually all over the country and just recently had my first European client. Besides my own private practice, I am also working with a functional medical practice in Scottsdale called Lifescape Premier and also working at one of Dr. Amen clinics seeing their patients in Scottsdale, Az. This is all due to my education from IIN. I am so incredibly grateful!! Thank you so much!!

I graduated from IIN in 2013 and went on to have a successful career as a health coach. I paid off my tuition with my own clients within the first year of graduation using IINs business tools, then went on to work for functional medicine doctors and clinics across the country. I even managed a wellness center in NYC, and two functional medicine biohacking clinics in Los Angeles, California. Since the pandemic, I’ve worked all virtually from home and am currently supporting a wellness center (NYC), clinic (Utah), and mentor health coaches. I also do Corporate Wellness presentations for Fortune 500 companies, and I co-authored a published book on health. None of this would have been possible without the confidence I gained through IIN. Currently, I’m completing IIN’s CIP 2.0 program and I’m loving it. The coaching modalities I’m further applying to my practice are already having transformative benefits, I’m gaining more confidence thanks to the graduation requirements involving master coach guidance, and I’m immersing myself in the NBHWC best tools for successful coaching. Not only have I worked as a health coach the past decade, but I’ve also changed my own personal health. Thanks to IIN I got inspired in 2013 to go off several medications with the permission of my doctors, and I experimented to learn which foods give me the most energy and which don’t. It’s always a journey and never a destination, and I’ve learned a ton. Through my own exploration I’m better able to connect with my clients on their journey.

Take the leap of faith! New graduate of the March 2022 class and this experience at IIN completely changed my life. I'm now a Corporate America escapee turned Integrative Health Coach, and I can't wait to help as many people as I can. What started off as a desire to help myself, quickly turned into a passion I never knew I had. The modules are very well laid out and the content is relevant and engaging. I didn't give 5-stars because felt some of the modules were dated, but I believe the class following mine started the updated system and module content, bravo to IIN for the upgrade! Next steps: be an IIN Ambassador, write my dream book, and become a board certified coach. Thank you IIN!!

I really wanted to like this course, but the further I got the more disappointed I became. IIN should consider a name change because there is not enough content on nutrition compared to all the other lectures. It’s really misleading since the course curriculum isn’t listed online.
They suck you in by having all the big names in the health and wellness space guest lecture, but it’s just the same regurgitated information that they already have all over the internet (that you don’t need to pay for).

They also changed the platform just prior me starting and there were so many tech issues: broken links, missing PDF’s and lectures/platform being unavailable. When I had time allotted for studying I wasn’t able to log in due to the platform being unavailable, I feel like our group were their Guinea pigs. And of course there’s not any discounts available for being part of what I consider to be the test group. CS isn’t helpful either.

If you’re considering this course, save your money and invest in a real nutrition program.

Absolute rip off. The course material was WAY out of date (maybe 90s material). The Financial modules were a complete waste of time (and money) for international students. The support team - HA!! What a joke! but they are definitely on the ball with taking your money, so don't worry. And both the icing and cherry on the cake, it took them over a year from graduation to finally send my certificate. The only saving grace is throughout this process is that I love the subject matter. Honestly, if you are thinking of doing such a course PLEASE PLEASE research well and don't believe the super friendly voice on the phone, the COMPANY honestly doesn't care about you. Find reviews on YouTube that compare different companies and I'm sure you will find cheaper and hopefully better options. Be warned!

IIN is an expensive way to learn a little bit about nutrition theories and perhaps learning how to take better care of yourself. It is not a solid foundation for being a health coach or counseling people. Why would it be ? You watch hours of lectures ( interesting but not like getting a proper degree) and take little quizzes in which the answers are obvious. Don’t waste your money. Their program, in most cases will not in most cases lead to gainful employment.

I dont Recommend IIN
Especially if you have financial issues or other wise you will be harassed by text
Emails and on
But of course at the beginning they told you that you can make money but how
the certification is not valid no where when you apply for jobs
This is serious and very frustrating
With this review I wanna help don’t believe than they only want money

I got into INN because I read great reviews about it.
Personally, is overpriced for what it is. You learn a lot but is “a little bit of everything “ nothing really deep and you end it up not knowing much. Trying to find a job out of this is very hard even if you try your own business.

I was going to give IIN a 4.5 star, but didn't have that option, so I chose a 5 because overall, this school was full of useful, timeless information on nutrition AND lifestyle changes. The business classes were fabulous! The abundance of information left nothing missing. Only thing is that I would have liked to still be a part and access information longer than 6 months after the course. I'm considering taking the class again one day. The information given was information that never goes outdated as I've heard some say. Still waiting for the rest of the world to catch up to such valuable and life changing information. It's a top notch school.

I'm a graduate of this program so I don't say this lightly but there are way better schools and certifications for health coaching than this. After you complete your certification you will be left with lil to no understanding of how to actually health coach.

True it is a process learning how to properly coach but they don't give you the knowledge necessary to correctly guide people.

They won't teach you how to read labels and what to look for in the products you're recommending, they will mention gut health but make you pay extra money for another course to learn the actual knowledge, weight loss will not be on the curriculum either, they will mention hormones and emotion eating but that's another course as well.

There are courses no that will guide you on how to catch and ask questions bit also discover your niche.

Steer clear of this! It's 5000$ and there are superior courses out there

It’s a scam. They aren’t upfront about the cost, will try to enroll you in additional courses (at an additional cost) when you can’t magically start your coaching practice according to their “easy” guidance. Coaches get money for selling new coaches on the program- very much like a pyramid scheme.

If you're considering joining IIN, here are a few things you need to know:

1. It's incredibly difficult to build a business as a health coach. Most of the people I have spoken to have never been able to make it as a health coach but have made their money in other ways, this includes celebrity graduates of IIN.
2. IF you choose to join, save the cash and pay it off in full before you begin, in cash. DO NOT get on a payment plan, DO NOT put it on a credit card, and don't join if you do not have the cash. It's simply not worth it.
3. You won't graduate and suddenly have a full schedule of clients. You just won't. It takes time. You will need to coach for free to build your business. For 6 months to 1 year.
4. Many of the lectures are outdated (dating back to maybe 2012?). It's like a litany of TED talks. Some of the teachers have passed away. Years ago.
5. You will receive very little one x one coaching. It adds up to minutes. This is the biggest drawback to the course, the lack of actual coaching you receive.
6. The information is valuable but it's likely you know most of this information already. There are so many overviews and not much depth. But there is a LOT of information.
7. If you choose to take the course, take the 1-year course. 6 months is not enough to develop yourself, and you have zero time to integrate the information.
8. Only a live zoom call here and there, not much face-to-face interaction.
9. The main IIN course is not a board certification course. You will need to purchase a separate course(s) if you would like to become board certified. It will cost you thousands.
10. You will spend probably 3x the cost of the original course - on more training and courses, on marketing and business coaching, and on unexpected expenses. I recommend budgeting $20,000 to become a successful coach. All of the "goodies" cost extra. Want to learn more about gut health? Pay more money. Want to learn more about such and such diet or what have you, pay more money. It's exhausting. I had to ask them to stop sending me emails asking me to join yet another paid add-on.
11. When I googled many of the teachers, I found that they were not even health coaches anymore. Some of the newly minted health coaches who teamed up with physicians are no longer doing that. These videos are so old that it's very difficult to see how health coaching will work out for someone in 2022 and beyond. Everyone says health coaches are needed. There just isn't the kind of demand you are lead to believe.

And beware of good reviews, because IIN has a referral system that pays a student each time someone new signs up as a referral, therefore people who are trying to recoup their money and make some money from becoming an IIN coach are likely not telling the whole truth about their experience. Make sure you speak to someone in person who has gone through the program.

I graduated from IIN in March of 2021. The knowledge I received from the school was so much more than I expected.
I have started a health coaching business and I am now able to coach others and share with them the education and tools that I learned.
IIN has definitely changed my life for the better and my clients are happy with their results. Coaching clients on a holistic level has made the difference. It’s been a great journey! I wouldn’t change a thing.
Thank you IIN for all you do!