Happy Sunday from MN! June is finally feeling like June — warm days, good energy, and another packed week in the books. The Flex Diet Cert is almost here and the ISSN is just around the corner, so buckle up. Always curious as to what you think, so hit me back. Here's what went down this week: Newsletters: Most Healthcare Is Not About Health: The medical system is built around disease management, not health optimization — and there's a big difference. Here's what actual health looks like. 170%...
1 day ago • 2 min read
The Flex Diet Cert is opening up in about 9 days, but before I have more on that coming up soon, today I want to cover one of the most misunderstood studies / protocol...darn I say ever! The year was 1996. Dr. Izumi Tabata and a collection of research nerds who probably hadn't seen sunlight in weeks published a paper that would spend the next three decades being mangled beyond recognition by every gym chain, fitness app, and Instagram trainer on earth. Tabata, I., Nishimura, K., Kouzaki, M.,...
2 days ago • 3 min read
Most healthcare is not about health. There, I said it. Cue the tiny bureaucratic raccoon in a lab coat throwing ICD-10 codes into a flaming filing cabinet. Most of the system is built around disease. Find it. Name it. Bill for it. Manage it. Repeat until everyone -including the docs and staff, are buried under paperwork, insurance forms, and a waiting room TV playing daytime cooking shows at a volume normally reserved for artillery testing. Health, actual health, often shows up as the weird...
5 days ago • 2 min read
In this episode of the Flex Diet Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Nathan Jenkins to discuss how to improve performance, body composition, and long-term health through the lens of aerobic development and metabolic flexibility. Nathan shares his journey from exercise physiology and coaching CrossFit athletes to his new role teaching physiology at the University of Georgia School of Medicine. We discuss why metabolic flexibility is such a powerful framework for understanding everything from...
6 days ago • 2 min read
There's a clock ticking in the background of this email and it says 11 days. That's how long until the Ultimate Men Over 40 Global Virtual Health Summit goes live and a hundred-plus experts (including yours truly nerdy) start firing actionable information at the screen for a solid week, free of charge, for any man over 40 with the sense to register before the gate slams shut. You may read this and think "looks interesting," then close the tab and forget. On Day 4, when a buddy texts you...
11 days ago • 1 min read
In this episode of the Flex Diet Podcast, I sit down with my friend Tracy Holemeyer (Uncontrollably Me, host of the Other Way to See It podcast) to talk about healing and performance through nervous system flexibility, somatics, and self-awareness, especially with how much stress people are carrying right now. We dig into practical tools like orienting, grounding, the “starfish” drill, pendulation, and Tracy’s “core four” (soft eyes, relaxing the tongue, breath pacing for coherence, and soft...
13 days ago • 1 min read
Happy Sunday from beautiful MN, where it has been nice and cool at night, making this my favorite time of the year. Enjoy your Sunday night and tune into the Enhanced Games if you're into sports performance live on YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/live/aSy5L2DqDDw?si=9ZS-ZQFgB250TMRB. I gave my Enhanced Games predictions on IG earlier today:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYu820APyb2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Always curious as to what you think, so hit me back. Here's what went down this...
15 days ago • 1 min read
Creatine got dragged into the fat-loss circus again. This time, the shiny object is a new Nature Communications paper on brown adipose tissue, thermogenesis, and something called the Futile Creatine Cycle (Bunk et al., 2025). Cool paper. Mechanistically spicy. Mouse-cage chaos with a tiny white lab coat and a flamethrower. Then the internet did what the internet does: it stuffed the finding into a cheap suit, handed it a microphone, and screamed: “Creatine is a fat burner!” Slow down,...
16 days ago • 5 min read
A few weeks back I accidentally took twice the recommended dose of a nootropic and had one of the best deep work sessions of my life. Not my proudest moment as a scientist, but a win as an accidental lab rat. The short version: Switch Supplements sent me a pre-production sample of their new formula, OnSwitch. Unlabeled bottle. No scoop. No directions. Just mysterious white powder and the implicit dare of "figure it out, sport." I looked at it, did what any reasonable PhD with a flight to...
17 days ago • 2 min read