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Metabolic Balance is the ultimate clinical tool for skilled functional medicine, natural medicine and nutrition practitioners, empowering you to deliver the most personalized dietary guidance for your clients.
By integrating Metabolic Balance into your practice, you can effortlessly support your clients on their journey to improved metabolic health and natural weight management.
As a Metabolic Balance practitioner in Australia and New Zealand, you receive comprehensive support—both during the initial training and throughout your ongoing professional development. This means you'll benefit from expert mentoring, ensuring you can effectively combine your passion for natural medicine with our dedication to personalized nutrition.
The Metabolic Balance practitioner certification is fully online, offering flexible timeframes to suit your schedule and make it easy to complete.
Creating personalised nutrition plans for clients is time-consuming and most of all extremely challenging.
We help busy practitioners provide highly personalised and effective nutrition plans for their clients at the click of a mouse.
By using Metabolic Balance within your practice, you are able to easily present the ideal food list and menu plan for your client to follow saving you valuable time and resources. You are able to build a highly profitable and successful practice whilst helping your clients achieve long term health and wellbeing.
"Metabolic Balance is a ready-made nutrition tool designed to seamlessly integrate into your practice, complete with expert mentoring to help you confidently deliver results and grow your nutrition business."
The Metabolic Balance program is a step in the right direction for both your practice and the health of your patients. It is a proven method that puts the health of your patient first.
Metabolic Balance is not a short-term "diet". On the contrary, it is a long-term individualized lifestyle program that ensures ongoing knowledge and success for your patients well into the future.
Metabolic Balance is a comprehensive, science-based nutrition program designed exclusively for independent health practitioners, similar to how functional tests are utilized in a B2B setting. Metabolic Balance provides a powerful, evidence-based tool that practitioners can integrate into their practice to offer personalised metabolic and nutritional support to clients. Metabolic Balance is not about sales targets or recruitment. Instead, it empowers qualified professionals to enhance their service offerings with a proven methodology, maintaining complete control over their client relationships and business growth.
Practitioner Sharon Carius shares her experience of Metabolic Balance.
"Metabolic balance revolutionized everything. It gave me the answer that I needed, food-based"
Many practitioners invest in premium business courses, only to find they lack the practical tools required or are left to create these themselves—missing a real, results-driven solution for their clients.
With Metabolic Balance training, you receive the complete package: a proven program ready to implement directly with your clients, alongside comprehensive ongoing mentoring to ensure your success.
There are three components for training as a certified Metabolic Balance practitioner in Australia and New Zealand:
Part 1.
Complete the 16 module online training course to understand the theory behind Metabolic Balance. This typically takes 12-16 hours. There are two exams at the end of module 8 and module 16.
Part 2.
Complete the implementation training by attending the live webinar sessions over one weekend. During these webinars you will gain a comprehensive understanding of the practicalities of offering Metabolic Balance to your clients. We cover the best way to implement Metabolic Balance into your practice and support your clients whilst they follow their Metabolic Balance personalised nutrition plan. A detailed training manual and support materials are provided so you have an excellent resource to refer back to at any time.
Part 3.
All Metabolic Balance practitioners are encouraged to participate in the program to be able to personally experience the benefits of the program and hence be able to support clients fully through the program.
Post-training support.
Following completion of your training, all Metabolic Balance practitioners in Australia and New Zealand have access to the Metabolic Balance AU&NZ practitioner support online forum and are invited to join the monthly support webinars for ongoing learning via case studies; marketing support; coaching support (NLP training); problem brainstorming; guest speakers; latest research and theory updates to support practitioners on implementing the program in their practice for the first year.
We also have weekly drop-in zoom sessions to ask questions, talk through strategies for adjusting plans and programs for clients and sharing tips and tricks in practice. Personal one-on-one mentoring for all MB practitioners is also available with head practitioner Cherry Wills.
Part 1 of the certification for MB practitioners involves the theory training component. This is self-directed and may be started at a convenient time for you after enrolment. It must be completed prior to joining an implementation webinar training. The theory component takes approximately 12 hours of study.
Part 2 of the certification for MB practitioners is attendance to the live implementation webinars. These webinars are hosted over two days (Thursday and Friday) and are scheduled for the following dates. Live attendance is required for certification.
All of our training has been completed for 2024
The scheduled dates for 2025 are:
February 6th/7th | - Spaces available - sign up deadline Thurs 23rd Jan |
March 20th/21st | - Spaces available |
May 22nd/23rd | - Spaces available |
July 24th/25th | - Spaces available |
September 18th/19th | - Spaces available |
November 27th/28th | - Spaces available |
Please ensure you book your preferred implementation training as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. We may occasionally add in extra dates for the implementation training and so do always register your interest so we can assess if and when extra dates are needed.
*Enrolment for training with Metabolic Balance ANZ is via application only. Metabolic Balance ANZ reserve the right to refuse an application. Metabolic Balance ANZ reserve the right to change implementation webinar training dates with reasonable notice. Latest update: 20th December 2024
The Metabolic Balance program is a personalized nutrition system that creates a tailored food list based on an individual's blood results, health goals, medical history, current medications, body measurements, and food preferences.
As of 2022, approximately 66% of Australian adults are classified as overweight or obese, indicating a significant public health concern. This marks an increase from 56% in 1995, highlighting a worsening trend over the past decades. Source: Obesity Evidence Hub
Metabolic conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, dementia, hypertension, and dyslipidemia are on the rise in our society, with growing recognition of the role that nutrition and lifestyle choices play in their development.
Creating personalized meal plans and food lists is a complex and time-consuming task for practitioners. By incorporating Metabolic Balance into your practice, you gain access to a scientifically validated method trusted by doctors and practitioners worldwide to help address and improve metabolic conditions. This enables you to efficiently provide your clients with individualized and effective food-based programs, leading to excellent results and supporting the sustainability of your natural health practice.
Metabolic Balance is a strictly practitioner only program in Australia and New Zealand.
All practitioners must have a minimum of an advanced diploma or preferably a degree in Naturopathy, Nutritional Medicine or Medicine. Other medical and natural therapy qualifications may be considered as appropriate and would be assessed on an individual basis.
All practitioners must have appropriate association membership and indemnity insurance.
As a Metabolic Balance practitioner, you have access to the online portal to generate the personalised menu plan and food list for your clients.
There is no software needed to be installed, managed or backed-up on your laptop. You simply need access to the internet.
Metabolic Balance is exclusively available through certified practitioners as part of a comprehensive support package. This package includes their personalized food plan and a minimum of five coaching consultations. The support period can be extended as needed, depending on the client’s health goals.
With its proven effectiveness and global reputation, Metabolic Balance attracts clients worldwide, who actively seek out their nearest certified practitioner to access the program and achieve transformative results.
Each Metabolic Balance practitioner has an account with the pathology lab and collection service in their area affiliated with Metabolic Balance. This also provides access to the agreed rates for other nutritionally important pathology tests which are valuable for clients.
Metabolic Balance requires 36 blood parameters for generating the plan. The test panels required are
Metabolic Balance is a completely whole-food program. Clients receive a detailed, personalized list of ideal protein sources, vegetables, fruits, and other whole foods. The simplicity of the program is key— while health improvements are needed, if a food is listed on the plan, it can be eaten; if it isn’t listed, it cannot.
With the right motivation and support, clients find the program straightforward and easy to follow. It requires a commitment to eating only whole foods, including fresh vegetables, fruits, high-quality proteins, healthy fats, and natural starches, with no reliance on gimmicks or meal replacement products.
All foods may be easily sourced from local food stores and supermarkets depending on local availability.
Results for clients are dependent on adherence to the program and effective coaching and guidance from their personal Metabolic Balance practitioner. Naturally there are no guarantees however individuals typically experience improvements in their health within the first week of commencing the program.
Metabolic Balance is an extremely effective way to restore metabolic health and manage weight. The program allows the body to restore balance and release weight naturally for long term holistic mind and body health.
Metabolic Balance is a holistic well being program that naturally restores overall balance to the body. It has be shown to be highly beneficial for inflammatory conditions including metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular health, hormone balance, skin health and mental health problems. Weight loss naturally results from improved overall balance and health.
There is no expensive equipment or set up costs beyond a good set of scales, a stadiometer (height measure), a tape measure, access to the internet and a printer to print off your client’s plans.
Metabolic Balance may be offered to clients in personalised one-on-one sessions, online or in a group setting by a certified practitioner.
As a Metabolic Balance practitioner in Australia and New Zealand, you have 12 month’s ongoing mentoring to ensure you are completely confident in offering Metabolic Balance in your practice.
This mentoring includes
Further support is provided by access to ready-to-use marketing material including pull-up banners, posters, client leaflets and powerpoint presentations to educate and attract new clients.
Metabolic Balance is an exclusive practitioner-only program, with full details on investment and practical implementation available only to qualified practitioners after verification of credentials.
Once you have registered your details and your qualifications have been confirmed, you will receive a series of five emails detailing all further information and costs you need to know.
Please note we are a small support team in Australia and New Zealand and will only contact you when you ask us to contact you. You are able to unsubscribe at any time from further communication from us.
"I knew I needed a way to help clients with sustainable, healthy weight loss and their metabolic health. My clients were asking me to help them lose weight and I knew, if we could do this naturally and healthily, so much more could potentially improve for all aspects of their current and future health. I've never been interested in fad diets or questionable meal replacement options or to tell clients anything that wasn't going to work for them, I wanted to give my clients the results they needed to have. It had to be ethical, sustainable and above all work.
So whilst it was weight loss results that first drew me to Metabolic Balance, it was the endless health benefits that personalised nutrition has given to my clients that continues to fuel my passion for Metabolic Balance.
I never tire of seeing and hearing about the results that Metabolic Balance and the right food gives to people,
In 2017 I took the leap from being a passionate practitioner to managing Metabolic Balance ANZ. Now being able to empower fellow practitioners be able to teach their clients personalised nutrition is simply the best. One client at a time, we are spreading the message that food really is the best medicine."
Cherry Wills, CEO Metabolic Balance Australia and New Zealand
So if Metabolic Balance has piqued your interest, we'd love to hear from you.
Metabolic Balance is a truly personalised and scientifically-validated nutrition solution that seeks to educate and empower people to reach their potential through learning about their ideal food.
Becoming a Metabolic Balance certified practitioner is an investment in your professional knowledge, business development, personal health and long term future.
Register your interest below to confirm your qualifications - we're very much looking forward to welcoming you to the Australian and New Zealand Metabolic Balance community of functional medicine practitioners!