I was the dormant athlete

I was an all-conference center in high school and played four years of college football at Huron University in South Dakota on a football and academic scholarship. I was a two-time NAIA Scholar-Athlete and Academic All-American.

I also hurt my knee three times: my senior year of high school, and my freshman and junior years of college. Nobody ever taught me about fueling, sleep, or recovery. I trained hard and figured the rest would take care of itself.

After football, it didn't. I went from 250 pounds to 343. I was tired, sore, wearing a 3 to 4XL shirt, and taking two cholesterol medications. I didn't look or feel like the athlete I used to be, and I didn't like the example I was setting.

Things changed when I started eating to fight inflammation and followed a functional health program that looked at the whole picture: sleep, stress, nutrition, and what my labs were really saying. Today I'm at 253 pounds and still losing. My waist went from 44 inches to 36, I wear an XL, and I came off both of my cholesterol medications.

Now I help men like me, former athletes in their 40s and 50s, get their energy, body, and confidence back, so their kids get to see them as athletes again.