Everyone always asks me, “Mike, what do I need to eat to look, feel and perform better?” And while nutrition is immensely important, a common problem I run into with clients originates with the 3 S's: sleep, stress and sugar. But the thing is, all three of them are inexorably related. They all influenced by and play a role in modulating our gut microbiome and subsequent hormone, neurotransmitter and immune regulation. I've talked about it before, and will again at length i

My Intro Two weeks after I was born I was diagnosed with a Metabolic Disorder called Phenylketonuria. Ever since I was diagnosed I followed a strict low protein (lowpro) diet and drank formula 3 times a day from a 24 oz. shaker bottle. My mother closely monitored me until I was 17 with formula prep, formula drinking, eating meals, and snacking. When I went to school I would drink my formula in the Nurses office. Every lunch lady knew who I was. I was a professional at measuri

So as some of you may have seen, I had the privilege this past weekend of being the Warm-Up MC for Tough Mudder at Old Bethpage on Long Island. Thanks to Steve From Building Strength, for arranging it! It was a lot of fun and I had the opportunity to interact with a lot of really cool people. This is all I have been able to locate so far, but if any of you have any more pictures or video from the Warm-Up Zone, I would greatly appreciate it if you could head on over to my P

Mary Caite & I tried a new recipe out yesterday that I thought you guys might be interested in. We decided to try out a recipe we tried from my new friend Chelsea Gold aka The Paleo Cavewoman. Now while her recipe, included an almond meal preparation as a cheese substitute, we both tolerate quality organic, pasture-raised dairy well, so we went with Organic Valley Cream Cheese. If you have a dairy sensitivity, be sure to use her recipe!! However, that being said, this is th

**To mark the release today of the awesome new book , here is a guest blog by my good friends Dr. Jayson & Mira Calton** The Micronutrient Miracle According to a 2010 report by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, one-half of Americans take at least one prescription medication. One out of every five children and nine out of every ten adults age sixty and over take at least one prescription drug. In fact, almost 40 percent of older Americans take five or more presc

This is a piece I have been kicking around in my head for a couple of years now, so I figured what better way to officially launch the blog than to jump right into it. Hippocrates, the “Father of Western Medicine,” stated to “let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” This is sage advice in a culture today that seems to be getting exponentially sicker year by year. What is even sadder, is that in the place that people often turn to in order to get better, the hospita