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See patterns others miss and become the practitioner who pinpoints likely root causes, recommends focused protocols, and delivers results others can't touch.
Learn the functional health skillset a degree doesn't teach in just two study sessions a week. A clear pathway to becoming a great health coach, so you stop freezing with complex clients and trust yourself in every session.
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We now only take on 2 new coaches per month so the community stays intimate and everyone gets hands-on personal support.

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"I don't think he's lying when he's saying that it's one of the best mentorships there is, especially with the level of community."

"I had zero skill set before. Now I feel much more proficient [as a coach]."
Most ZION students aren't sitting around with unlimited time to study.
You don't need to study full time to become a great coach.
ZION is designed to help you become great at what you do, efficiently, with an intelligent learning system.
You don't need to rush through the content just to "finish". You need enough time to understand it, absorb it, apply it, and use it with confidence with real people.
That's why we recommend starting with just two 45-minute study sessions a week. One to learn. One to apply.
Got more time some weeks? Go further. And if you need longer than 12 months, you can continue month to month at your own pace.
The goal is to become more competent, confident and useful with clients, not to binge-watch your way through functional health.
Every practical skill you learn branches from one ZION functional skillset, organised by the ZION Model: Know, Decide, Do. Drag the web around. Tap any skill to see what it solves and the modules that teach it.
Tap any skill or module to see how it connects.
Your clients are experiencing health challenges like gut issues, fatigue, hormonal imbalances, and emotional stress more than ever.
You don't need to be a Doctor or a university graduate to help people holistically. There are safe and effective ways to work within scope and transform people's lives.
But the problem is that most are unaware of the extent to which your clients are experiencing these symptoms, let alone how to address them.
When they do come up, you might doubt yourself and retreat to the surface-level training and nutrition you're familiar with. Not because you don't care, but because no one taught you how to go deeper, safely.
You don't need to spend $40,000 and 4 years of your life. There's a new, better way.

"Now I feel a lot more confident to deal with so many different types of challenges. Before, I wouldn't attempt some of the things I've been able to help people with that I've learnt now."

"I always wanted to be a holistic professional. I just didn't have the skills to be one, nor the confidence in my competency. That's probably the best thing that this has delivered."
Degrees teach the theory. Courses and protocol libraries add more of it. Knowledge matters, but more of it won't change your client's results. Knowing what to do with it will.
"It has massive support and structure. I can get quite overwhelmed with too much information, where with ZION, it's all laid out in a way that works with my brain. Structured in a way that I can actually apply it with clients. Other mentorships, it can be quite overwhelming and you don't really know what to do with that information."

This is the ZION Functional Health Education Library, updated weekly with the latest research.
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See patterns others miss and become the practitioner who pinpoints likely root causes, recommends focused protocols, and delivers results others can't touch.
Learn the fundamentals of the gut and gain practical tools to address the chronic gut issues your clients battle daily, so they can finally break free from the cycle of feeling stuck.
Receive protocols and fundamentals behind the most complex health problems that keep your clients stuck.
Learn the cheat codes for the mind of how to get clients unstuck using the science and art of psychology.
Learn to expose the hidden nutrition pitfalls other coaches never even see - so your clients break through plateaus you never used to be able to solve.
Understand how the body produces, stores, and expends energy. Tailor fuelling and recovery strategies across different training and performance contexts.
Understand how coaching females differs from males: menstrual cycles, hormonal fluctuations, and the physiology that directly impacts training and recovery.
Help your clients sleep like a panda and wake up ready to perform. Improve sleep quality, manage stress, and maximise recovery so they stop running on fumes.
Get your clients lean, jacked and performing at the highest level without needing to watch 357 Mike Israetel videos.
Receive teachings from 10+ industry leaders, including dieticians, naturopaths and clinical psychologists that will reshape the way you look at health, science and human nature.
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"You can't even compare skill set I had compared to now. It's night and day difference. These are skills I never thought I would have."

"Gut health issues or skin conditions - you don't talk about that at uni - I can now have a conversation with my clients about it and feel confident."
Learn and apply at your own pace, with live support the whole way. Certification is optional. The choice is yours.
Bite-sized masterclasses across 10 modules. Two 45-minute sessions a week, around a full client load.
Use 100+ ready-to-use protocols with your own clients, with monthly group mentoring to sharpen your thinking.
ZION Certification is optional, never a forced pathway. You have the freedom to choose.
"I had zero skillset before, now I feel much more proficient."
Kiara, student naturopath.
Kiara was also part of our flagship Trinity program, supported directly by Saad.
You may already have training. You may already know a lot. Certificates, protocols, blood work skills, real client experience.
But then a complex case lands in your lap, and the question stops being "Do I know enough?" It becomes:
That's where ZION becomes more than a course. It's a place to keep building your clinical confidence, bring your questions, learn from real cases, and stay connected to coaches who are serious about becoming good at this work.
Complex work gets lighter when you're not carrying it alone.
Small, intimate calls. Walk through your case and get live feedback.
When a complex case comes up, you're not stuck on your own.
ZION isn't only for people starting from zero. Many coaches come to us after studying nutrition, blood work, gut health, hormones or functional health elsewhere.
They're not looking for another giant pile of content. They're looking for structure, support, community, and a place to keep sharpening their judgement with real cases.
If you've already trained, ZION helps you turn what you know into something more usable:
You might not need another certificate or another huge course library. You might need somewhere to keep growing.
Knowledge, but still feeling alone when a complex case gets tricky.
A clearer process, stronger judgement, and a community around you when you need another set of eyes.
ZION provides guest courses and masterclasses from a growing body of world class practitioners including IFBB pros, naturopaths, dieticians and experts in functional medicine.
Ben CantBiochemist & Functional Health Expert
Jake DoleschalHolistic Coach
Benjamin BroughtonIFBB Pro
Charley O'HalloranGut Health Coach
Holly SinclairFemale Health Expert
JulesClinical Psychologist
Mandy HopperGut & Hormone Health Coach
Olivia OrchowskiFemale Health Expert
Steph LoweNutrition & Hormone Expert
Jamie SmithBiomechanics & Movement Expert Coach"Will I embarrass myself, harm a client, or realise later I was taught nonsense?" Here's how ZION answers that.
Memorising protocols and passing them on blindly is how coaches get it wrong. ZION trains the opposite skill: judgement.
You learn the science, the clinical frameworks and the decision-making behind the work. Why something matters. When it applies. When it doesn't.
So you read symptoms, blood work, nutrition, behaviour, nervous system state and client history together, instead of building a whole plan around one marker, one symptom or one theory.
Plenty of health content online overstates the evidence. A single study gets misread, an association becomes a cause, and fear does the selling. That bothers us, and it's baked into how we teach.
Sounding smart is easy. Being useful takes judgement.
Researchers slipped one fake detail (a made-up lab result, disease or symptom) into 300 patient cases. Six leading AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, accepted it as real and explained it 50 to 82% of the time (Mount Sinai, Communications Medicine, 2025).
Given only the blood test report, without the doctor's notes, ChatGPT's top diagnosis matched the confirmed diagnosis in just 79 of 100 hospital patients (Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2026).
Instagram is no better. One expert blames carbs, the next blames seed oils, the next blames cortisol, and every post contradicts the last. Your clients see all of it, and they bring it to you.
ZION replaces the noise with judgement. Every topic is taught from the evidence, weighed against real clinical experience, with the limits named. So you stop collecting opinions and start making calls you can defend.
The key studies are cited on the slides, so you can read them yourself.
Led by Saad Alexander, degree-qualified health scientist. A career-long library, not Google or AI.
Guest courses inside ZION from a clinical psychologist, clinical nutritionists, dietitians, a doctor, a biochemist and naturopaths.
The real-world patterns no study fully captures.
Four sources, weighed against each other before anything is taught. So you learn what works, why it works, and where the evidence stops.
This is what judgement sounds like with a real client. We don't claim to have every answer. We know which answers are solid, and we teach you to tell the difference.
IBS, functional dyspepsia (indigestion with no structural cause), constipation and bloating.
Rome Foundation Global Study, 54,127 adults, 26 countries. Sperber et al. 2021, GastroenterologyLow iron stores (ferritin under 25) with or without anaemia. Fatigue and poor training recovery are common signs.
US national data, females aged 12 to 21. Weyand et al. 2023, JAMAHashimoto's thyroiditis, mostly identified by thyroid antibodies. It is the most common cause of an underactive thyroid where iodine intake is adequate. In men the figure is closer to 1 in 17.
48 studies, 22.7 million adults. Hu et al. 2022, Frontiers in Public Health
"I feel confident in not just bullshitting my way through, acting like I know what I'm doing when I don't. I have the skill set and the education that even if I don't have the answer right now, I am skilled enough."

"My skill set's definitely better. My confidence and ability to get someone a result is much better. It was a rarity that I got a good result, whereas now it's more of an average."
"As a PT - what right do you have to do this sort of stuff? Then as you go through, you start incrementally increasing your knowledge... You showed me how to step towards becoming a health professional."

"With other mentors, I'd spend 1-2 hours trying to apply what they gave me then spend even more time trying to remember what they said. This week alone, I've managed to spend 2 to 4 hours a day on ZION, even with a busy schedule. My partner even mentioned no other mentor you had is like him."

"There is just so much value it's honestly like nothing else I have ever seen!!"

"Absolutely LOVING ZION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fuck me the info is wild!!"

Trained by doctors, biochemists and the best in Australia's health industry. Founder of ZION and Trinity.
You get direct access to me. Most courses hide the founder behind a team, and you get very little of the person you signed up to learn from. ZION is kept small and intimate on purpose, capped at 50 active students for 2026, so your feedback comes from the most experienced professionals.
See inside the modules, protocols, and coaching frameworks that have helped hundreds of coaches.
Bite-sized lessons that fit a 30 minute study session.
Evidence-informed, fact-checked and labelled by strength of evidence. Use them with clients the same week.

Bring your client case studies and get live feedback, so you know you're implementing your plan properly.
Pay the $4,997 upfront and get a private session with Saad. Use it to work on you, or bring a complex client case study and solve it together.
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Apply for this month's intake. Once you're accepted, you're in.
Get access to ZION and the community the moment you enrol, and select your first two modules.
A 1:1 onboarding call with Saad. You leave clear on exactly what to do next, and which skill gaps to close first.
A custom plan built from your needs analysis. You know exactly where to spend your time.
Study in two 45-minute sessions a week. Bring your client cases to the community and monthly calls for live feedback.
Complete your assessment and earn your ZION Certification.
Certification is optional. If you choose the certification pathway, it means you've completed the ZION curriculum and passed your assessed case studies, showing you can interpret, recommend and refer within scope. If you'd rather prioritise the learning, you get the same modules, protocols, calls and community without the formal assessments. ZION Certification is a private industry certification issued by Strength Of Saad Pty Ltd. It is not a nationally recognised AQF qualification.
ZION is built for coaches, PTs, health professionals, and gym owners - whether you're just starting out or already experienced in your field.
No qualifications are required. What you need is enthusiasm, commitment, and the willingness to learn. Over time, you'll also want clients to apply your new skills to, so you can put your knowledge into practice.
Some of our teachers have ADHD and are neurodivergent. We have an ADHD protocol for that ;) (seriously, we do).
We don't assume you have prior knowledge when you enter ZION, so we teach you from the ground up. ZION translates complex scientific concepts into practical, straightforward, digestible content.
We make learning engaging and entertaining. We splice in humour, silliness and are not afraid to be ourselves because we know learning is easier when it's enjoyable.
It's a fair question, and the right one to ask. ZION's content comes from four places: research (the key studies are cited on the slides), university-level health science, guest courses from 10+ health professionals (a clinical psychologist, clinical nutritionists, dietitians, a doctor, a biochemist and naturopaths), and 11 years of clinical experience with 1,000+ clients.
Where something is well established, we teach it that way. Where it's emerging, theoretical or based on practitioner experience, we say so. New content is fact-checked before it goes live.
The goal is to make you better at evaluating information and making safe, useful decisions with clients, rather than handing you a stack of claims to repeat.
Yes. You'll learn to separate strong evidence from weak evidence, established principles from emerging theories, and useful clinical experience from overconfident opinion.
The hierarchy of evidence comes up throughout the presentations, and the Research & Critical Thinking module covers study designs, how to read research and how to navigate health information online without getting tricked.
You'll learn to ask better questions, look for context, avoid overclaiming, and decide based on the full client picture rather than one isolated result.
ZION builds competence, and confidence follows competence. If your concern is "I don't want to spread incorrect information", that's exactly the kind of seriousness we want in the school.
You should care about being accurate. You should care about scope. You should care about doing good work.
ZION gives you the knowledge, systems and judgement to work with complex clients, while staying clear about what you do and don't know, and when to refer.
Within community chats and live group calls, you will consistently receive Saad's support. You can ask any question and his team, Trinity coaches or Saad himself will reply.
Both. ZION is built as a full skillset pathway, so whether you're brand new or already seasoned, it adapts to where you're at.
If you're a beginner, you'll have a structured, step-by-step roadmap instead of piecing things together from random podcasts or courses. If you're experienced, ZION gives you advanced frameworks, blood work interpretation, and holistic protocols that distinguish a good coach from a great one.
We host monthly group calls where you can get feedback and personalised mentoring from Saad. The group is intimate enough to allow everyone to get their questions answered.
You're not on your own. But ZION isn't about constant guidance. It's self-paced, and while you're connected to a community, the responsibility is yours. Trinity is where we go much deeper with high-frequency hands-on coaching.
You'll have a space to ask questions in our chats, share wins, and learn from others, plus a monthly group call where you can connect live.
Yes. ZION is designed to be self-paced, allowing you to slow down or speed up depending on your life, work, or personal preference for diving in. The modules are drip-fed, so you're not drowning in content all at once.
Yes. Teaching people well needs the same foundation as coaching them well: knowing what the evidence says, how strong it is, and how to make it practical for everyday life.
Expect your vision to evolve as your skills grow. It usually does.
Yes. If work or family means the timing is better in a month or two, claim your spot and we'll agree a start date that suits your life.
You choose. Continue month to month to keep your access, the community and the calls, or finish there. The vast majority of our students choose to continue.
No hidden costs. Your enrolment covers the curriculum, the protocols, the community, the monthly calls, your Game Plan Call and your certification assessment. The only extra is optional: paid 1:1 consults with Saad or the team if you want more support.
Yes. Book a call or message us and we'll connect you with a current student whose situation is close to yours, whether that's a parent studying around full-time work or a coach building an education brand.
ZION is self-paced. It's the complete skillset library: all the frameworks, protocols, and systems you need to become confident in functional health and holistic coaching. You move through it at your own pace, with community and calls to support you, but the responsibility ultimately rests with you.
Trinity is a high-touch mentorship school. It includes everything inside ZION, plus bi-weekly live coaching calls, 1:1 calls with Saad, deep accountability, and our retreats, where the real transformation happens.
Some coaches start in ZION to build their foundations, then progress into Trinity when they're ready for intensive mentorship. ZION provides the tools. Trinity offers hands-on guidance, accountability, belonging and a transformation that changes your mindset, confidence, and purpose.
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