VESPA’s ‘Paradigm-Shift’ from ‘Recovery’ to ‘Damage Prevention’

While VESPA users notice the faster ‘recovery,’ the real reason you recover faster using VESPA is because VESPA shifts your fat metabolism to a high level thus preventing the damage of oxidative stress and lactate load created from burning a lot of glucose.  Damage is what happens when you use sugar and carbohydrates as your […]

Coming back from a Parasitic Infection | Sport Nutrition

Today’s podcast features OFM Athletes and Coaches Amy Hamilton and Naomi Land (who live on opposite sides of the world)  contracted exactly the same parasite, Blasto Cytosis (Blastocystis), and how sports nutrition and the right diagnosis helped them.Life is full of challenges because that’s what life is all about. Some are planned like getting an […]

Carb Wars with Judy Baker

The topic of Carb Loading and using concentrated carbohydrates for energy can be a controversial issue. OFM is not only for athletic performance, many of our customers use it for health and well-being. Today’s conversation with artist  Judy Baker is a very personal and poignant one on the literally life-saving benefits of carbohydrate restriction. Judy’s […]

OFM & Aging: The “Reverse Aging” approach of the OFM Lifestyle

Dr. Kaayla Daniel joins us once again for another thought provoking conversation on how getting the body back to metabolizing fat is key to slowing the aging process to a crawl. In many cases, the accelerated aging is caused by a “Healthy” Lifestyle of the high carbohydrate/low fat diet combined with exercise. We challenge what […]

OFM and the Mitochondria Performance Advantage

Mitochondria are literally your cell’s energy powerhouse. This is where ATP is produced. On a cellular level, the more your cells contain, the larger they are, the more capacity your body has to train, compete, and remain healthy & robust.  OFM provides a “Mitochondrial Advantage” in numerous ways. Fat-Adapted Metabolic State: Simply put, a molecule of fatty […]

The OFM Perspective: Concentrated Carbohydrates as a “Legal PED”

Part of the OFM Advantage lies in how we view things through a different lens. We don’t look at Carbohydrates (CHO) as the ‘End-All’ for fueling like the conventional High-Carbohydrate Nutrition Guidelines suggest for athletes but neither do we view them as so toxic complete elimination is necessary in the way the Keto community and […]

Fat as Fuel – Understanding How Cholesterol Really Works

The fundamental shift to “Fat as fuel” provided by Vespa’s OFM protocol makes for an equally fundamental shift in physiology. In so many metrics of health and performance Vespa/OFM athletes simply do not fall into the normal parameters. One particular area is Cholesterol / Lipids. Because Cholesterol is a form of  FAT and is the […]

Beth- 53 – amazing performance story powered by OFM and Vespa

This story shows how age and disability are no barrier to peak performance and health. The power of a Mother’s Love for her child with a little help from Vespa and it’s OFM program, gives Beth James the passion and fire to train and complete IM Wisconsin, one of the toughest IM courses. Beth discusses her […]

Results Driven, Nature Based, Science Backed

Are YOU wanting RESULTS or are you waiting for the Science? In the end, results matter and why OFM is the de facto leader in fat-adapted performance. OFM even “leads the science” by pioneering fat adapted performance long before it became published science. In fact, OFM Athletes made up the LCD Cohort in the ground-breaking […]

The OFM Pyramid

The OFM Pyramid (Optimized Fat Metabolism) is a tool, so the athlete can understand the complex, highly inter-related aspects of the OFM Program in an intuitive way. This allows each athlete to create their own personalized OFM program around their individual needs and situation, rather than force them into a “one size fits all” program. […]