The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Expert certification adds accreditation and advisory board.

As you probably know, the Primal blueprint expert certification that launched in late August

has been extremely well received, and hundreds of students are currently studying to become

Primal Blueprint Certified Experts. In fact, we have 74 graduates already spanning 24 states

and seven countries, and you can read all about them at the certified expert online directory.

While we are pleased to deliver a successful product to an eager audience, I'm also enthusiastic about the bigger picture of having the primal pale paleo, ancestral health movement represented in a general

sense when it comes to advanced professional education in the areas of diet, exercise, and health

science. It's a sure bet that progress in mainstream health, fitness, and medical education

will happen at a slow pace. As my friend Dr. Doug McGuff says, science and mainstream

medicine will come around, but it will take 20 years. I'd rather live on the forefront of health

progress than wait. Don't hold your breath for our hallowed medical schools to start drilling the docks

of tomorrow on the pro-inflammatory effects of gluten

ingestion or why the trigs to HDL ratio blood values trump the total LDL values when trying to assess

heart disease risk factors. Registered dietitians will likely be still studying off the U.S.

government's beloved Choose My Plate for a while longer

before they throw the primal blueprint food pyramid into their course syllabi.

Even the educational tracks of personal training, exercise physiology, chiropractic, and functional

medicine can benefit from exposure to the science and practical techniques favored by our relatively small

and progressive healthy living movement. The cert is turning out to be a wonderful way to make

inroads against conventional wisdom. For every hands-on professional that completes the certification

and starts to spread the word to clients and professional peers is changing the world, one small step at a time.

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