Mission Impossible: Take back your Metabolic Health

FAIR WARNING: Today’s vlog is convoluted, BUT stick with me, because this really is about you and your overall well being…Like you, I cannot escape the daily bombardment of urgent news, messaging, narratives, and advertising, as well as those surreptitious ads that seem to magically invade my computer after I have glanced at a page. If […]

Peak Performance vs. Peak Health – is there a tradeoff?

Like most things in life, achieving both peak performance and peak health at the same time is not quite as simple as we want it to be. It is far from black and white, so to “bust this myth” requires context. In the context of High Carb FuelingIt’s a commonly held belief that you cannot achieve […]

Embracing Natural Chaos and claiming back your Metabolic Health

I’d like to get you out of your comfort zone with this vlog. In these times where the undertone of fear is a constant, we all need to be shook up and get our heads pulled out of whatever hole of rigid thoughts we have buried it in.  In doing so we can learn something […]

Are you “Blood Sugar Stable or on a Blood Sugar Rollercoaster”?

Blood Sugar Stable, like ‘Strategic Carbohydrates,’ is a term I coined years ago and is absolutely critical for sustained performance across a wide spectrum of performance metrics, not just endurance. Why? Ironically, the more optimized your fat metabolism, the greater your stability in blood sugar. On the other hand, if your body is programmed to burn […]

Looking to Nature for Answers to your Health & Performance Needs

A big part of what I do has to do with “myth busting” these conventional paradigms of our modern man-made world and today’s vlog is no different. While I’m going to talk about several natural compounds which have had enormous impact on human health & performance, it is as much to mythbust the conventional paradigm […]

Fat Adaptation – your competitive advantage in extreme temperatures

Shooting this video from Death Valley just before this year’s Badwater 135, and it motivated me to talk about how “going to the extremes” has helped us unlock the key to metabolic health and reverse aging.The last 2 Badwaters have been won by Vespa Fat Adapted athletes, 2018 in the hottest year ever and 2019 […]

Don’t Screw Around With Your Fueling

Today, I really want to drive home a key concept to those of you who are new to Vespa.  I’m going to use the analogy that’s based on some other experiences in my life that are outside the framework of Vespa. So today we’re going to talk about Screwing. Now, I got your attention right.!Quality […]

Why Do Diets Fail?

Why does everyone immediately focus on the diet? Paleo, keto, plant based, vegetarian, vegan, low fat, high fat, low carb, high carb, Mediterranean, Whole30, Atkins, the new Atkins… It doesn’t matter. Diets fail because people focus on the diet.Let’s focus on you, your metabolism physiology, and getting it back to its natural state. This is the starting […]

Metabolic Freedom: Your personal road to Independence

Celebrating our Country’s Independence this 4th of July is the perfect opportunity to get YOU thinking about Metabolic Freedom.I’ve been saying for a while, “We need a Revolution, just not what we’ve seen played out over the past year.” Why? Because when you look at these events, whether it was the BLM riots or the […]

GI Distress – Do you REALLY need ALL those external calories?

When you sit down to enjoy a meal (and I mean really ENJOY a meal) whether it’s breakfast, lunch or dinner, are you going to do a lot of exercise? Of course NOT! So then why would you want to cram meal-sized amounts of calories into your digestive system when you’re trying to perform exercise? […]