Category Archives for "Fat Metabolism"

The Key To Your Best Performance is Learning To Burn Fat

The publication of the FASTER Study was a watershed moment in both sports physiology and metabolic health. The data from FASTER clearly showed humans are capable of burning a lot more fat and at much higher intensity levels than the science previous to FASTER suggested.Why is this important?FASTER forced researchers to reconsider the long held notion […]

Developing Metabolic Capacity is the Key to Metabolic Flexibility

Metabolic Flexibility is a term that is being tossed around a LOT these days. It’s trendy right now as people try to wrap their heads around using fat for fuel, which I’ve been pioneering for the past 22 years and counting. Like other trendy buzz words, I struggle with the term Metabolic Flexibility because it is […]

Myth Busting Your Appetite and Hunger Suppressing Diets

When you hear someone talking about how their Diet suppresses hunger, don’t believe them. That is right, do NOT believe them! It does not matter which diet is discussed – Keto, Paleo, Vegan or Plant based, humans have hunger triggers as part of our evolutionary heritage and biological hardwiring and for good reason.   Hunger […]

Competition: Our Real World Lab to bring Higher Health & Peak Performance to YOU!

Honest competition leads to development, insights and understanding on how we can be and do better, it is how we can raise the bar. We can see the advancements in our vehicles with technology from Formula 1 and Moto GP.  But, sadly, Human health has declined in spite of sports competition. We are changing that, and have […]

Fat Metabolism – Your Key To Reverse Aging & Chronic Disease

In recent years there has been this huge interest in slowing or reversing the aging process with the likes of Dave Asprey, Ben Greenfield and Peter Attia being the internet Gurus people flock to.Long before these guys had any inkling about the benefits of carbohydrate restriction, I’d accidentally tripped onto these benefits for slowing the […]

OFM: Not a Diet and Not Keto but your key to Metabolic Health

There is this commonly held belief that OFM (Optimized Fat Metabolism) is some form of a Keto diet or a High Fat Low Carb Diet, so today I’d like to blow that myth clean out of the water once and for all, because as you will learn shortly OFM is far from a keto diet […]

The First Step To Optimizing Your Fat Metabolism

January is a time of new beginnings and change. And with the past 2 years who isn’t ready for real change? So in today’s vlog, I want to bust the biggest myth of all about OFM, the one that prevents most people from making that fundamental shift to fat as fuel. Instead of the usual 30 […]

Balancing Metrics With Biology To Reach Your Peak Health & Performance

Today I’d like to myth-bust this idea that achieving optimal health has to be a precision endeavor. We rely on precision in our everyday lives.  However, when it comes to our physiology, precision can actually stop us reaching our peak health and performance.We Need MetricsOne seminal tool we use as humans is quantification through numbers […]

Vespa: Disruptive Innovation for Metabolic Health

Change, by definition, means doing something differently. Fundamental change means doing things radically different. While disruptive innovation is a commonly used term in technology, I am going to use it here for what we are doing with Metabolic Health. VESPA is, by definition, a disruptive innovation.So what characteristically defines this innovation and makes VESPA so innovative? […]

A Different Kind of “New Normal” – Metabolic Freedom

We keep hearing the term “New Normal” being bantered about, and yet, nothing is normal. You actually know this intuitively. The problem is most of us are accepting the current situation as the new normal, one where uncertainty and fear are the perceived norm. By accepting this as normal, we are “Sold, Told and Controlled”, […]