I don’t say yes to every event. Some conferences feel like getting trapped in a carpeted casino for biohackers, where every booth is trying to sell you a glowing forehead device, mitochondrial fairy dust, or a longevity protocol based on three blind mice, one GooRoo influencer, and a chart that looks like it was drawn during a hostage situation. Hard pass. I will stay home as my calendar is already full enough with: Clients. Writing. Courses. Research. Podcasting. Trying to pick up stupidly...
about 6 hours ago • 2 min read
A brand spanking new review just published days ago by Jang, J. et al says EAAs may “bypass” the cardio / lifting interference effect. Is this a mouse trap or meathead magic? Strap in, you beautiful iron-slinging mitochondria hoarder as we break this down. A peer-reviewed review dropped in Nutrients this June, and buried inside the usual academic furniture was a sentence spicy enough to make the supplement aisle start levitating. One sentence basically walked into the strength-and-cardio cage...
2 days ago • 4 min read
The peptide world found mitochondria. Please hide your wallet. One of the up and coming peptides is one called SS-31. The pharmaceutical version has an FDA-approved lane for Barth syndrome, which is a rare mitochondrial disease. And that’s exactly why this gets messy. When something is pure supplement-rack sewer foam, it’s easy to point, laugh, and move on with your life. But SS-31 — also called elamipretide — is a real mitochondrial-targeted compound with real biology behind it. Cool...
4 days ago • 1 min read
As you saw, the Flex Diet Cert slammed shut t this past Monday night and huge congrats to all of you who are enrolled this round. Wahoo! ..but if the price was too high or the wrong time, no worries as you did not get banished to the metabolic wasteland forever. Another round comes back slated for Jan or Feb 2027, and I’ll make enough noise that your neighbor’s dog will know about it. However, if you want to learn all about met flex on the cheap, you are in luck as sat down with Dr. Jeremy...
6 days ago • 1 min read
In 1990, researchers did something wonderfully deranged. They took 12 pairs of identical twins, fed each man an extra 84,000 calories over 100 days, kept them mostly sedentary, and watched the metabolic dice roll across the lab floor. Everyone gained weight. Shocker I know. Physics did not pack a suitcase, fake its own death, and move into a cave in Nepal... ..Yet the amount they gained was wildly different. One guy gained under 10 pounds. Another gained almost 30. Keep in mind this was on...
10 days ago • 5 min read
I am still reeling from another amazing ISSN conference. Good reeling. Brain full. Voice crispy. Body moving like someone replaced my normal joints with airport furniture. After a few days of presenting, talking shop, catching up with brilliant people, and pretending my nervous system is not being held together by caffeine and conference carpet, I am moving a bit slow today. Still happy as hell. Also mildly cooked. So I’ll keep this one short because the clock is loud tonight. The expanded...
10 days ago • 3 min read
In this episode of the Flex Diet Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Sara Campbell, Ph.D., Associate Professor at Rutgers University, for a conversation about the bidirectional relationship between exercise and the gut microbiome. Dr. Sara Campbell returns to discuss her lab’s cutting-edge research on the bidirectional relationship between exercise and the gut microbiome — including why consumer gut tests oversimplify a complex ecosystem, how antibiotics devastate exercise capacity in animal models,...
11 days ago • 1 min read
Short one. Mostly because this deadline has teeth. When you enroll in the Flex Diet Cert during the first 48 hours, you get a private one-hour call with me. Just you and me. No script. Zero upsell. And absolutely none of that giant group Zoom nonsense where 37 people are silently praying Chad from Ohio stops asking about seed oils or WingNut17 stops going on about microplastics in his creatine. Ask me anything. Nutrition. Metabolic flexibility. Training. HRV. Your business. The client who...
14 days ago • 1 min read
I get lots of pooo for this statement, but I stand behind it. "Stop starting to teach your clients about sleep." A reasonable person reads that and thinks I've lost my mind. Sleep is sexy now and the thing every health podcast screams about for three hours between mattress ads? Stick with me, because this is the single idea that separates a coach with a system from a coach with a pile of facts. Coaching Leverage™ Here's how I actually rank the interventions based on the idea of Coaching...
14 days ago • 2 min read