Why Metabolic Mojo?

Anybody who has overcome a chronic condition will tell you that getting your life back is a truly remarkable feeling. As a classically trained actor and singer, I had just finished the biggest show of my life before finding myself bedridden in New York City for over a year. When doctor’s visits, imaging and physical therapy failed to improve my condition, I had a stark moment of clarity when I realized that not one clinician had ever asked me what I ate. Desperate, angry, and sick of feeling like a burden to my angel of a wife, I was determined to take matters into my own hands. I dove down the rabbit hole of nutrition and holistic healing with a primary emphasis of understanding chronic, systemic inflammation. Soon I found myself knee deep in research linking insulin resistance, mitochondrial dysfunction and metabolic syndrome to an inflammatory cascade contributing to almost every modern chronic disease. I made major changes to my diet, adapting an aggressive, animal based, ketogenic approach and completely overhauled my lifestyle to embrace these new paradigms. Within a month, literally one month, the pain that had kept me bedridden was 90% better. Not one doctor had asked about nutrition.

In the years that followed, I became hyper passionate about holistic health. I continued to learn, continued to research and continued to be astonished by how inadequate the American health industry is at preventing and treating chronic disease. Moreover I was astounded to see the financial profiteering that tied such powerful industries together; big food, pharma, medical and government were intricately intertwined. The recurring and unfortunate theme I discovered was two fold: that people were getting sicker and sicker, younger and younger, and that almost no one felt like they knew why.

A major turning point for me came when a dear friend, mid sixties and on a mission to lose weight, asked me for help. I told him that weight loss will be both the easiest and least impressive thing that eating properly will accomplish. Within months, this type 2 diabetic of 15 years was down 45 pounds and off of all medication, sporting a normal hbA1c and fasting glucose. But the part of the story that shocks me to my core came the following year. This person’s doctor said “Congratulations! You’ve kept off the weight! Also I have to tell you, you’re my only diabetic patient to be off all medication.”

How is this doctor running a practice where they haven’t gotten a single type 2 diabetic off of medication? How is that even remotely acceptable? And yet, this is the standard we’ve grown accustomed to. This moment was the driving force that encouraged me to create Metabolic Mojo. Having gotten my life back and helped so many others do the same, I feel very blessed to participate in the healing journey of others. It continues to sadden me that so many people do not understand the power they possess to truly take ownership of their own health. I aim to educate, encourage, and support anybody who is willing to do the work to reclaim their quality of life.

And yes… I still sing all the time! Happy to serenade during coaching sessions.