Certified Epigenetics Coach Training · Alter Health Academy
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Become the guide you needed when no one had answers.

A six-month certification in epigenetic coaching. Learn to read the whole body, starting with your own, and build work that finally feels like yours.

The founding cohort begins October 5, 2026
Amazon Bestseller
Author, a book on autoimmunity
2,000+
Students I've taught
Podcast Host
“Epigenetics, the medicine nobody told you about”

If you're here, I already know some of your story

You came to health the hard way.

Through your own body, or someone you love. The energy that fell off a cliff. The sleep that broke. The numbers that drifted. And the appointment that ended in eight minutes with a prescription and no explanation.

You asked for the labs and didn't get them. You were told it was your age, or your genes, or just how it is. So you started reading. You've read a fair bit by now. You've tried things, a practitioner here, a course there, a shelf of supplements, and every source handed you one more piece and never the whole picture. No one ever showed you how the body actually works, as one connected system.

And somewhere in the last year, a quieter thought arrived, one you haven't fully said out loud. What if this could be my actual work? What if I understood it properly, and helped people the way no one helped me?

What you suspected, and were half-afraid to believe

It was never just in your genes.

That the body can heal itself when it's given the right conditions, and the real work is figuring out what those conditions are for this particular person. That genes are not a sentence, that you can influence how they express, and "it's in your genes" was never the whole story. That you always had more say in your own health than you were allowed to believe.

You were right. There is a real, grounded, evidence-based path between the medicine that dismissed you and the wellness world that's all crystals and no rigour. It's called epigenetics, and it has finally grown up enough to build genuine work on. That is what this training teaches.

The life where you said yes

Picture an ordinary morning, a year from now.

You're not driving to a job that empties you out. You're sitting across from someone who came to you the way you once came to everyone else, tired, dismissed, certain nothing could change. And you can see what they can't see yet. You know where to look.

By lunchtime you've done work that mattered. You understand your own body now, deeply, and your family's, and you've stopped handing that power to people who never had time for you. The afternoon is yours. The shape of your days is yours. You work from anywhere, at your own pace, and for the first time in years the word for your own life is not "fine." It's "mine."

And the quiet thing underneath all of it, the part you'd hesitate to say out loud. You got out. You built something that's yours, that helps people, that means something. You reach a moment where someone thanks you in tears for what the work gave them back, and you let yourself feel that you were right to try.

What you'll actually learn

The skill almost no one is taught.

How to read a whole human being again. Body and mind, metabolism and life story, nervous system and environment. From that view you see where the real lever sits for this person, and how understanding becomes a path they can actually follow.

You learn the science properly, the mechanisms, the labs, the lifestyle levers, the nervous system, and you never need a medical degree to grasp it. Real depth, no pharma reflex. Real nature, no esoterics. It is the exact middle you have been looking for, and almost no one teaches it cleanly.

Why I teach this

I'm Dr. Nicola Schmitz.

I spent over twenty years inside conventional medicine, running my own practice. A good life, the kind that looks complete from the outside. Then my husband was given a diagnosis that medicine had no real answer for. Only a hard outlook, and a future I refused to accept on his behalf.

So I did what you have probably been doing. I read, for months, day and night. I trained as an epigenetics coach. And I found a way to help him, naturally, that the system said wasn't possible. He lives a full, light life today.

We sold our practices, took our daughters, and moved across the world to build something truer. In the years since, I wrote a book on autoimmunity that became an Amazon bestseller, started a podcast, and taught more than two thousand people in my courses. This training is the thing I wished existed when I started. I teach it because I am you, a few steps further down the road. I didn't take the conventional route either. The empathy you already have, the way you already listen, that is the part no one can teach you, and the part that matters most. The science, I can.

A short hello, in my own words

Six months, one connected whole

What you'll move through.

Real rigour, never so biochemical that it loses the human. You finish able to work with people safely and take your first clients.

Month One

Why genes are not destiny

The answer to the question that probably brought you here, said simply and honestly, without tipping into hype.

Month Two

The metabolic story

The machinery under the hood. Not a single pathway to memorize, but how food, stress, sleep and energy switch genes on and off.

Month Three

Genetics, labs and your ground

The month that turns your biggest fear into your firmest footing. What you may say and do, and what belongs to a doctor.

Month Four

The lifestyle levers

Food, gut, blood sugar and movement. Where understanding becomes a plan a real person can follow on an ordinary Tuesday.

Month Five

Sleep, hormones, environment

The big daily regulators that shape gene expression more than almost anything, plus supplements handled with care, not hype.

Month Six

The nervous system, and meaning

Why knowledge alone rarely changes anyone, and what does. You fold all six months into one safe, real coaching process.

What's included

How the six months actually work.

Real substance, not a video library you drift away from. Here is what you get, and how it reaches you.

Weekly learning, on your time

One module a month, released weekly and on-demand, built to fit around a working life.

Live every week or two

Live Q&A and integration calls, plus a monthly experiential session you feel in your own body.

A small founding circle

A private cohort and community, with peer partners who notice when you go quiet.

Tools you'll actually use

A workbook, an audio and practice library, and clean client templates, from intake to a twelve-week plan.

Real cases to learn from

A database of anonymised real people, from raised homocysteine to perimenopause to burnout.

A certification that means something

Case studies, two recorded sessions, two pro-bono clients, and a final case presentation.

Designed to run alongside your life. On-demand learning, plus one weekly live call.

Behind every symptom, a story no one had time to read.

You were always the kind of person who wanted to read the whole of it. The question was never whether you care enough. It is whether you will let yourself begin.

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In their own words

What people say about working with me.

These are voices from my coaching practice, the people who came tired and dismissed, and found something different.

Renu
Manuela
Anna

Thank you for all the clarity you brought me. I appreciate your gentle energy. You give a safe place for people who are in high alert like me. I don't feel judged, but embraced, which is what I can learn to do for myself. It's also encouraging to meet someone who manages the hypersensitivity. I'm glad I started this process with you.

1:1 coaching client

I'm so grateful that you decided to write a book and bring together all your wisdom and passion for your mission in one piece. It's truly inspiring to witness the dedication and care you bring to your work. Every time you share your perspective, it reflects both great intelligence and genuine kindness. You are one of my very few mentors who truly inspire me.

Medical student, Bulgaria

Built so you actually finish

If you've started things before and not finished them.

That was never a failure of character. It is what happens with lonely video libraries you drift away from. This is built the opposite way.

A small founding cohort where you are actually seen. A steady weekly rhythm instead of a content dump. Live touchpoints every week or two. Peer partners who notice when you go quiet. And a thread of self-regulation running through all six months, because a sensitive person who gives a lot has to learn to hold her own state first. The structure does part of the work of finishing, so you are not relying on willpower alone.

And because this round is the first, you get me directly, closer than any cohort after this one ever will.

The Threshold · your first three weeks

The moment you say yes, you begin.

You don't wait until October to start changing. The day you join, your first three weeks begin, a gentle on-ramp that turns all of this from an idea into something you feel in your own body, alongside the group, before day one.

See
Week one

See

You learn to notice your body the way you'll one day read a client's. A daily body-scan, a simple energy log, and your first welcome call with people walking the same path.

Play
Week two

Play

You run one small experiment on yourself and watch your body respond. Change stops being theory and becomes something measurable, in you.

Say
Week three

Say

You explain epigenetics in two minutes to someone you love, you write a letter to the version of you six months from now, and you arrive at day one already moving, already in a group, already a little braver.

Honestly, is this you?

This is built for one kind of person.

This is for you if

  • You came to health through your own body, or someone you love, where conventional answers ran out.
  • You are open to science and to natural approaches, and tired of both the shallow and the esoteric.
  • You feel a genuine pull to help people, not only to leave a job.
  • You are ready to commit six months, and to practise on yourself and a couple of willing people while you learn.

This is not for you if

  • You want a weekend certificate or a fast, cheap course.
  • You want a magic-bullet biohack or a single protocol that fixes everything.
  • You want permission to diagnose or treat disease, or to replace doctors.
  • You are not ready for a serious professional training that asks real commitment of your time and yourself.

The things you haven't said out loud

Let me meet them honestly.

"Who am I to do this? I never studied medicine."

Understanding the whole person is not something taught in medical school. I didn't take the conventional route either. The science I can teach you. The empathy, the way you already listen, that is the rarest part of this work, and you already brought it.

"I've started things before and not finished them."

Then this is built precisely for you. A small group, a weekly rhythm, live touchpoints, people who notice when you go quiet. You will not be left alone with a video library to drift away from.

"What if it doesn't actually help, for me or the people I love?"

You have been let down by sources that promised depth and delivered fluff. This is the opposite of that. Real mechanisms, real practice, real reps with your first clients, and a clear, honest line about what this is and is not.

How it begins

It starts with a conversation, not a checkout.

There is no "buy now" button here, and that is deliberate. You apply, and if it looks like a fit, we talk for half an hour. Not a sales pitch, a real conversation to work out together whether this is right for you. If it is, I'll tell you honestly, and we'll talk openly about the investment and the ways to make it work. If it isn't, I'll tell you that too. Either answer is a good one.

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This is a premium professional training, not a low-cost online course. We discuss the investment, and payment options, openly on the call.

The next step was always going to be yours.

You have been preparing for this longer than you realise. Every appointment that dismissed you, every book you couldn't stop reading, every time you were the one a friend turned to. It was all pointing here.

The founding cohort begins October 5, 2026, and registration closes three weeks before we start. There is one conversation between you and the beginning of it.

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