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I enjoyed my life as a young kid.  I grew up in a very small town about an hour north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I played sports, hung out with friends, did good in school, and overall life was very happy and enjoyable for me.

Around the time I was 10, life began to open itself to me from the negative side.  I remember being a little pudgy as I considered it, but it didn’t bother me very much some kids started calling me fat.

On my 10th birthday, I went to my yearly checkup appointment at my pediatrician’s office, and this is where he told me and my mom in a very direct manner that I was overweight.

I remember feeling really embarrassed, sad, angry, and hurt from his comment.

It was a realization that what kids were telling me must actually be true since my doctor was telling me the same thing. 

I wanted to eliminate these feelings, and the only way to do it was to figure out how to not be overweight.

 

So, I left the appointment with my mom and we drove straight to the only gym within a 25 mile radius of my house that would allow a 10 year old to start lifting weights and exercising. 

The only thing I knew in my mind was that I was going to figure out how to "get muscles" at this gym since that was a very simple way to comprehend how I wouldn't be considered fat or overweight.

She bought me a gym membership that night, and set me up with one of the trainer’s who worked there. His name was Larry. He was a bodybuilder himself, and someone who trained with Mr. Pennsylvania at the time Rob Harris.

This whole experience was the 1st true awakening for me in my health journey.

From that point on lifting became a major focus for me, since I did in fact "get muscles" and became very strong. It also helped me improve my athletic abilities and excelling in the sports I played was also very important to me at that time. 

As I began to pack on muscle and lift weights heavier than my friends and peers, it continued to elevate my social status and clout as a teenager.

Lifting weights was one of the greatest decisions I had ever made at that point in my life, and it continued that way for quite some time. 

I played multiple sports throughout my school years - baseball, soccer, wrestling, basketball, and also football for 13 years all the way through graduating from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.

I met the most beautiful and amazing woman after graduating and embarking on a career in the real world. I thank God for her, and for crossing paths with her in this lifetime. I’m just thankful she felt the same way about me as I felt about her. I knew instantly she was my soulmate, and Alexa and I got married in 2009.  By 2010, we had our first son Michael.

Priorities began to change at the time, and I lost focus on keeping myself in shape.  It was getting a little harder to stay in shape for my standards.  I wasn’t walking around a college campus to classes all day, or playing football like I had for the previous 13 years. 

Along with the increased stress of figuring out life from a personal and financial aspect, I lost touch with my physical self both from an appearance standpoint and a performance standpoint. I was aware of it and began to slightly bother me mentally.

We hit the Cape May beach when my son was 1, and my wife took family pictures of us all. I saw myself in the photos and it was a simultaneous flashback to when I was 10 being called fat, and an instant mid-life crisis.

I had never been as out of shape as I was in those photos, never in my life.

My self-confidence and perspective of myself changed forever that day.

This, was the 2nd awakening in my health journey.

I cannot explain how horrible I felt, to essentially be completely stripped of what was the backbone of my identity up to this point in my life.

I never had anxiety or low self confidence or embarrassment about myself. 

It brought me back to that 10yr old doctor appointment, but it was much more elevated at this point. This was more of a mindset awakening for me.

It was like the 2.0 version of my age 10 experience and the mission was to figure out how to be “ripped.” It was something I never really needed to put much focus on as it sort of came in a natural flow of building muscle after I started lifting weights, combined with all the physical activity and exercise that was part of my days training for the sports I played. 

I was determined to figure out and learn how to achieve single digit body fat, while simultaneously becoming as strong as I had ever been. It was a 2-fold experiment.

It ended up being a process in which I gained a total grip on nutrition and strength training, learning how to deadlift over 3x my bodyweight, squat over 2.5x my bodyweight, and bench press 1.8x my bodyweight… all while living for months with single-digit body fat.

There are certain things that happen mentally when you feel very powerful. 

As Spiderman says “with great power comes great responsibility.” 

I would get up at 4:30am to hit the gym, and I would look at my son and my wife while they would be sleeping. 

I started to think about the health of my family, and educating them about how to be healthy and be strong. 

I felt like that’s what a father should do, and I took on that responsibility as it became a personal priority for me. 

My wife got herself into the best shape she had ever been in her life. By far she was the strongest and leanest she had ever been in her life, even as a track athlete and dancer. 

She deadlifted almost 2x her bodyweight within only a few months of committing and focusing on her workout routine. She had leaned out nicely, and really toned up her muscles too.  

Everything in our lives was at a very good point, and we were literally the happiest and healthiest that either of us had ever been up until that point in our lives.

But... something had crept into our lives undetected and unnoticed.

Something none of us saw or could have seen at that time. 

At this point life took an unexpected turn for the worse that would have the deepest and most negative long-tail impact on our entire lives.

My wife’s mom came home from a doctor’s appointment and told us that she had cancer in 20+ of her lymph nodes…

It just felt like the whole bottom of our happiness and joy completely fell out from underneath us.

Life immediately took on a new meaning, purpose, and focus for us as we were helping her fight this thing, this disease, that we knew nothing about. 

We had no idea how to combat this animal, and had no idea how we were going to win this war. 

We believed we had no choice but to put our faith in the medical professionals' hands and in God’s hands. 

I also thought that since I knew about nutrition that I could help her get healthy, but I quickly realized that the one size fits all approach was not the remedy for this scenario. 

It was a deep and heavy realization for me at that time that I knew how to build muscle, gain strength, live with body fat in the single digits, yet no idea how to detoxify the body from disease and save such a valuable life.

Unfortunately, God brought her to his heavenly kingdom in 2013… and from that point on our lives were changed forever in so many ways.

This entire experience changed everything I thought I knew and understood about life, and about health. For anyone else who has experienced this, you understand that there are essentially no words to summarize this experience, and my love goes out to you. 

This experience is cemented in my timeline of life and it has been hard to draw many positives from it.

But the one, most impactful positive, is that it permanently changed my health focus forever.

It led me down a path I wasn't consciously aware I was traveling down, although subconsciously I was searching for answers as to how my wife's mom was here one moment, and then gone the next. 

I thought that by learning how to balance my energy consumption and lift heavy weights that I was a master at nutrition and weight lifting. 

I thought I knew how to keep everyone healthy and strong... until I needed to keep one very important person healthy and strong.

I couldn’t come through when my family needed it the most... when someone's life literally depended on it. 

It broke me apart, and left me with many emotional and mental scars.

Even if I could help people lose body fat and gain strength and build muscle - what did it really matter if I couldn’t help people be healthy and keep them healthy over their lifetime, or eliminate a sickness or disease. 

This was the 3rd, and by far greatest awakening for me, in my health journey.  This was a very intense mental and emotional experience. 

After losing my wife's mom Gina to cancer, I had many many things on my mind and my heart that I needed to work through in order to restore the continuity within my family and my life. 

The only thing I could really be certain of at this point was that my #1 priority in my entire life was to figure out and understand how to keep myself and my family healthy. 

How do you truly prevent disease?

And if I or my family did somehow end up with a disease how would I get rid of it?

I never wanted my son or my wife to go through that pain and suffering if I ever got sick with a disease.  And even worse, what if one of them became sick with an illness or disease?!

My feelings of personal responsibility as a husband and father to keep my family healthy had elevated to a whole different level.

The only thing I knew at this point was that preventing disease was much better than eliminating it. 

I had a gameplan but I didn’t really know how to execute it. 

I needed to figure out what causes these illnesses and diseases, and if they did become sick I needed to know how to get them healthy again.

First things first, I felt guided towards the need to focus on nutrition and foods.  In the 2.0 experience the major discovery was around nutrition. 

I attributed ~80% of my results to nutrition, and only about 20% to efficient strength training.  I understood the power of nutrition with becoming lean and strong, and I felt there was more power and knowledge to gain from this aspect.

I also knew I needed to strengthen my mind. 

I felt like I needed the healthiest and strongest mind I could create if I had any chance at figuring out this puzzle of true health. 

I needed to take health to the mental space and strengthen it just as I had strengthened the physical. 

I knew I needed to strengthen my emotional self, but I put it last on the priority list and just approached it from the perspective that over time it would strengthen.

For the next 3 years I had been building health knowledge and continued to educate myself from many different angles, while raising a family and introducing our 2nd son Bobby Jr. into the world. 

In 2016, I decided to get back to focusing more on strength, and I began working with highest ranked powerlifter in the world 82kg category Brett Gibbs, since that was my bodyweight. 

I also began working with a professional Chris Pratt, who trained and helped neurologically heal some of the top football players in the NFL at the time, including Odell Beckham Jr. and Von Miller.  During this period, my whole perspective changed on strength training and functional medicine.

I felt like I had essentially maxed out my knowledge in this realm, and I began to become unfulfilled again. 

My nutrition knowledge had improved some, but my health and wellness and healing education wasn’t up to the same standards. 

At this time of my life I connected myself back with nutrition, as it was the next obstacle I needed to overcome if there was any hope in fulfilling my ultimate health gameplan.

But nutrition felt a little daunting to me, as it seemed like a huge mountain to climb that would probably take my lifetime to understand, let alone true health and wellness, and healing. 

After all, medical doctors don’t even have a full grasp on health and wellness so how was I going to gain control over it. 

Fear and doubt had crept into my mind at this point, but I decided to proceed with it anyway as I had maxed myself out by clinging to my comfort zone in the physical strength space and was no longer gaining fulfillment here.

I started digging very hard into nutrition, learning herbal and natural medicine. 

I began to really connect with detoxification and healing. 

I began to identify that the physical vehicle we operate also has a direct correlation with the emotional and mental bodies. 

I began to understand what the body needs and requires based upon how it was designed and created.

Animal agriculture began to grab my attention in a very eye opening way. 

Seeing the destruction that animal agriculture was doing to the planet, and witnessing animals being killed, tortured, and treated inhumanely began to sicken me.

What totally flipped my head around was that I was paying for these actions to be done.

My money was supporting these horrific acitivities, ending living creatures lives, and destroying the planet.

I had never really thought about how my meat arrived on my plate.

My awareness and consciousness were very low.

I began to understand vibrational frequencies and electrical energy. 

I learned that the dead bodies of animals have 0 energy to add to mine, as the human energy levels need ~6500 angstroms of electromagnetic energy to support health and vitality. 

I began to see a correlations of meat and dairy sickening the masses. 

I began to see people, health, and the world very differently than I ever had in my life.

It was like all the mysticism and uncertainty and the fog was being lifted.

Things began to get much simpler.

It was a ray of light into a world that gave me true hope of solving the ultimate health puzzle for my family and I, and if I could do it for us why not help others do the same thing. 

I began to see deeper trends and patterns connecting natural food and nutrition to health and wellness, and more importantly healing. 

What I began to identify is that the healthiest, longest living individuals, all had a couple of things in common. 

They practiced lifestyles in harmony with nature and plant based activity. 

They understood how to detoxify and cleanse the body, and were all utilizing the power of herbs. This was the 4th awakening in my health journey, and it’s what I would also consider the first awakening in my spiritual journey.

I met a man, whom I consider the greatest healer of our lifetime, Dr. Robert Morse.

He had been healing people naturally for over 50 years.

I knew the feeling I felt would lead me to greater answers, and so I began to study his methodology and process of natural healing.

It was the ultimate connection, and the ultimate health connection was made. 

I had finally figured it out true health, and it was a super humbling experience. 

I knew not only how to take care of myself, but also my family. 

I'm very unselfish person, and I immediately thought about the impact that my knowledge and my abilities could have on other people outside of my home.

I knew that I had the ability to guide people down a different path if they had ever gotten a cancer diagnosis. To know this is THE most powerful, yet humbling, feeling in the world.

Things had finally come back full circle, and there was mixed emotions of extreme happiness along with the sadness of losing my mother-in-law coming back to me. 

I had figured things out, but it was too late from that one perspective... 

I realized that I couldn’t change the past, and the only control of choices I had was to move forward and impact the lives of those in the present moments.

With 25+ years of combined self-experimentation, 3rd party trial and error, athletic, health, wellness, nutrition, strength training, herbology, detoxification, iridology, and healing experience, I finally knew that it was time to really make an impact in other peoples lives in my lifetime on this planet.

I felt a great power, and an even greater responsibility to help others.

In Summary 

The truth of all health is that food is medicine, or it is poison. 

Our reality in the physical realm is governed by cause and effect. It is the fundamental principle of chemistry.

In order to maximize the nutrition from the foods that we consume, we must be efficient in the 4 main processes of our health, which are digestion, absorption, utilization, and elimination.

There are 2 sides to chemistry - acid or alkaline (base). The digestion process of our foods have an outcome that is either acid ash, or alkaline ash.

As we learned in chemistry acids are corrosive. 

Our bodies must provide an alkaline medium, or terrain, in order to have optimal and superior health. 

Nutrition is where it all starts in providing the body what it needs. 

If you begin to provide the body things it does not want or need and is not naturally designed to consume, it must eliminate them, and if it cannot, that is where disease begins.

Those with sickness or disease must heal themselves through the removal of their acidic accumulation (acidosis). This is done through nutrition, herbs, and detoxification in order to alkalize the body.

I began working directly with people to improve their health and to provide a foundation of knowledge to help them maximize their wellness, enhance their vitality and energy, and truly live a healthy lifestyle that extends their longevity. 

Folks who were overweight lost weight.

People who wanted to gain muscle and strength achieved personal bests. 

Diets and lifestyles were altered and people began living differently and healthier. 

Those who had trusted and been to doctors were declining in their health, until we crossed paths.

Their minds were elevated and their eyes could see clearly what health is and what it needs to be, both short term and long term. 

The achievement of healing sickness and disease was something that was finally achieved over the course of almost 6 years since my mother in law passed.

A massive internal driving force was initiated and a seed was planted when we lost my mother-in-law to cancer.  I can’t explain all that it did to me and to my family, but I know there are literally millions upon millions of people who have suffered and felt very similar pain by going through a loss of a loved one from cancer, and from many other diseases.  It was the motivation to achieve ultimate health.

It is my purpose, and my daily motivation, to spread the truth about health and to raise awareness of natural health. 

To help change people’s lives directly and indirectly by preventing that level of pain and suffering that so many of us have gone through with losing loved ones to some disease most don't know how to overcome.

To help people live a long healthy lifestyle, and to do all they came to do in their lives, and not have it be cut short by something that's preventable. 

I’ve unintentionally dedicated my life to understand health since I was 10 years old. 

That day changed my life, and I am thankful for my experience with my doctor, and I must be thankful for all of my experiences as it has shaped me into who I am and what my reality is today.

It brings me immense happiness to help those who are clueless about their health, and those who are suffering. To help people live a healthier, more energetic, and longer life. 

Sparing people the pain from losing a loved one or losing themselves to a disease or sickness is the most fulfillment I can receive in serving others. 

I don’t want people to go through what my family has gone through after losing my wife’s mother.

I want to spare that pain and suffering for all the people who are involved in these scenarios, and I will continue doing it until my final days on Earth.

Health is not a difficult subject at its true core. 

Truth is universal. 

Health has taken on a mysterious and secretive aspect.

To me, it’s a fundamental element of life that should be common knowledge to all human beings. 

Creating the greatest you by providing your body what it needs, so that you can go live your life to the highest levels of achievement is what life is all about.

Put yourself in control of your health. 

You are alive, so maximize your health, your vitality, and your longevity while you have it.

Do something amazing with your life, and create a fulfilling life with many memories with your loved ones for as long as possible.

I invite you to join me in a free webinar, to help lay a foundation of true natural health, that you can build into high levels of vitality and wellness.