Metabolism
is the Key
Your Metabolism
is the Key
The key to your potential! Achieving peak performance should enhance your health, not compromise it. The OFM Metabolic Reset & Adaptation Program focuses on building metabolic capacity at the cellular / mitochondrial level, the foundation of any athlete's health & performance potential.
Begin Unlocking Your Metabolic Potential
If you want to:
Why We Created OFM
The Optimized Fat Metabolism program, OFM, was originally developed by Peter Defty to support athletes using VESPA, a natural metabolic catalyst that enhances performance-level fat metabolism. This led to several Key insights:
- Modern diets, environments, and lifestyles have disrupted our natural metabolic pathways, leading to misinformed assumptions about health and our metabolic potential.
- When viewing performance through the lens of evolutionary biology, current sports nutrition guidelines recommend excessive amounts of sugar (as carbohydrates). While the high carb approach produces immediate, short term performance results, the overconsumption of sugar adversely affects health, performance, and longevity in the long run.
- The body should primarily use body fat as its principal aerobic energy source rather than glycogen and external calories. This is why we possess unlimited onboard energy as fat.
- From an evolutionary biology perspective, glucose/glycogen are our 'Fight or Flight' and 'bridge' fuel. With OFM, the human body has robust stores of glucose as glycogen and requires significantly less external calories for sustaining competition level intensities and performance. This eliminates bonking and risk of GI issues.
- Fat metabolism is complex, and achieving optimal health and performance requires a comprehensive, individualized approach. Each person's journey is unique, shaped by various factors affecting metabolism.
- OFM embraces a "bottom-up" strategy, focusing on reclaiming your foundational physiology then building metabolic capacity for performance and robust health. OFM establishes a metabolic foundation you can build upon to harness carbohydrates 'strategically' for what they are meant for; performance and adaptation, instead of as your main energy source and a "House of Carbs" which, over time leads to energy swings, bonking and GI issues.
- OFM recognizes you are an individual N=1 experiment which is crucial for unlocking your true health and performance potential. OFM translates complex science into an intuitive and sustainable process for real-world application in the context of your life!
- A healthy metabolism reduces dependence on high-calorie, low-nutrient diet and fueling approaches. This shift to fat metabolism and away from glucose (sugar) metabolism minimizes oxidative stress, formation of free radicals (ROS), inflammation, lactate load and glycation (AGEs) all of which contribute to energy swings, bonking, and GI issues. More importantly, overconsumption of sugar has been clearly implicated as a key driver of chronic diseases like diabetes, dementia, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.
It's time to reclaim and restore your body's natural metabolism. When metabolically fit, your body is not reliant on a diet high in calories but low in nutritional value. You will no longer have a dependency on external fuel/food to prevent crashing, bonking or hitting the wall. Instead, you will be burning the fuel you are meant to burn aerobically, your limitless, internal stores of body fat, as your stable base while harnessing external calories for high level performance.
For Athletes you will :
For those SERIOUS about health:
Measure Your Progress With INSCYD Testing
Select programs include comprehensive metabolic testing by INSCYD to establish benchmarks, then track your progress to refine your journey to peak performance and optimal health.
With each test, you get VO2max, VLamax, FatMax, carbohydrate and fat combustion rates, lactate accumulation, and more. These factors help you and your coach create a more efficient, targeted workout plan, helping you target weaknesses in your training allowing for faster improvements.
The OFM Journey Has Three Phases
Metabolic Reset
A 28 Day video and information course designed to reset your metabolic state back to its natural state and get you ready to start building your metabolic capacity.
Adaptation
The Adaptation Phase focuses on building Metabolic Capacity for the health & performance gains experienced by OFM Athletes. By building Metabolic Capacity you gain the metabolic flexibility and carbohydrate tolerance to make OFM a sustainable and enjoyable way of Life.
Integration
Our portal will give you the support you need to continue refining your metabolic potential while making OFM an integral part of everyday life. Included are, live monthly calls with experts from the community covering the latest developments in metabolic health, our extensive library, and discounts on Vespa and OFM supplements.
You're never alone in your OFM journey and have the support of our team and community members when you have questions, need direction or advice. As part of the program you will be invited to our active community on Facebook where athletes and non-athletes alike share their experiences, knowledge and problem-solving. This is a private group moderated by OFM experts and experienced coaches. If you need or want individualized one-on-one Metabolic Coaching our Team can provide consultation at any level of engagement you require.
Step 1:
Choose the Program Appropriate for You & Your Lifestyle
Step 2:
Do You Want/Need Individualized Support & Guidance?
Add Concierge Metabolic Performance Consulting
If you are looking to accelerate the learning curve and help guide you on your OFM journey we offer comprehensive personalized metabolic coaching/consulting.
Additionally, if you require assistance beyond our core competency we work with a team of experts across multiple disciplines. By doing so we integrate these variables into a comprehensive, personalized program, rather than a one-size solution.
Our Concierge Services Include:
Step 3: Get Started
What our clients are saying
Jessica Rohlman - used Vespa as fuel to deal with Gluten intolerance - now kicking PB's and is in the best shape
See Jeff's story from Carb Loading to Diabetes to Keto to Fat Adaptation, how he feels 20 years younger and his performance had improved.
[ESTONIA] Aet Kiisla, a University Professor and Ultra-runner who discusses her journey from Carb loading to Low Carb, and then Fat adaptation to VESPA +Fat Adaptation.
Stephen Losey shares his journey from fat kid to an obese, out of shape, adult to a Boston Qualifying marathoner who is getting faster as he goes . . . and without a restrictive diet!
Marci Zavala, a 46 years young wife and mother of two teenage boys, and currently a 4 time World Champion in Brazilian Jui Jitsu. Take note in Marci's 'glow' and youthful exuberance!
Bart is running Ultra's at 75 and defying the aging process . . . he recently completed a 50 miler in under 12 hours, a goal which eluded him until Vespa.
We Are Pioneers in Metabolic Health & Performance
Peter is one of the pioneers in fat adaptation for performance. While the metabolic health benefits of Low Carb and/or Keto are well documented they come with a downside . . . a notable impairment of athletic performance which prevent you from reaching your health and performance potential.
OFM solves all this.
Even though the adverse effects of high carb/sugar intake is becoming obvious, restricting carbohydrates was considered heresy 24 years ago. Like any true innovator Peter was roundly ridiculed and dismissed by the "experts" even though athletes Peter worked with were consistently winning and setting Course Records at many of the most prestigious ultra-endurance competitions utilizing the OFM approach and VESPA.
In 2010 Doctors Stephen Phinney, MD / PhD and Jeff Volek RD / PhD , two of the World's leading researchers in Ketogenic Diets, took notice and made a point to discuss Peter's work in "The Art & Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance" as well as use his pool of OFM athletes for the ground-breaking "FASTER" study. Peter's work goes "Beyond Keto", and, so will you by experiencing OFM!
Peter and his athletes knew there was more to fat burning than keto . . . a lot more . In 2022 Peter and a small pool of VESPA/OFM Athletes gathered data on their VO2Max capabilities with the data from this metabolic testing demonstrating a potential to sustainably use fat as a performance energy source.
The spectrum of difficulty for the Metabolic Reset (MR) ranges from 2-3 days of feeling 'off' but fully functional to 2-3 weeks of moderate struggle as your body adapts. Because of our real world experience the MR has several real-world strategies to attenuate the difficulty including using VESPA so you can sustainably succeed at resetting then continue on your journey via the Adaptation Phase of OFM.
Need external carbs? . . . technically no.What separates OFM from Keto and Low Carb is once we get the athlete metabolically reset and build their aerobic capacity Carbs are brought back in 'Strategically' in the diet and fueling to provide that quick energy on top of a massive aerobic fat burning base. Through optimizing fat metabolism for performance and health the body can produce and metabolize all 3 principle energy substrates; fat, ketones and glucose. Through this optimization the liver even synthesizes glucose from fat to meet the metabolic need. This dramatically reduces the dependence upon external calories as a significant source of energy.
No. ketoacidosis is a rare and dangerous medical condition that mainly occurs in people with type 1 diabetes if they are ill. OFM will have you in in and out of a state of nutritional ketosis but OFM is not a Keto Diet. OFM is much more. Ketosis is a natural and safe state for most people under full control of their diet and training.
During the first couple of weeks when you are switching from a compromised physiology to OFM, your training capacity will most likely be reduced. After a couple of weeks of adaptation most OFM participants are able to return to a normal training or exercise level. They note sustained energy , more focus and improved recovery, however, at this point many lose or do not experience the explosive power they expect. This is developed in the Adaptation Phase where we develop both power and stamina.
NO! OFM actually devotes the 2nd Tier of the OFM Pyramid to 'Nutrition NOT Calories to address this issue. You will learn how to replace the junk, nutrionally empty and inflammatory foods currently in your diet with nutritious foods to achieve dietary balance. And while it is theoretically possible to get all your nutrition from food the reality is most people do not have a lifestyle which facilitates the balanced nutrition of OFM or won't consume certain foods like liver, etc. To cover these gaps we've developed the OFM supplementation protocols. We don't recommend a plethora of confusing supplements, only the one you need to fill in the gaps so you can perform optimally. After two decades of pioneering fat adaptation we .
The underlying theme to the OFM program is, in a word, “balance”. Whether you are looking at the stomach & gut biome, hormones, Omega 3 to Omega 6 fatty acids, macro-nutrient profile, training versus recovery, water to electrolytes, balancing your life load to your training load, achieving a balance is in play.
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