Hello! My name is Chris, and this is the story behind this blog, my website, my (fingers crossed) future company, and my story.
I began gaining an interest in nutrition around my late teens when I was diagnosed with colitis. Being an active teen and watching what I ate, I thought I was doing everything right. I went to get a colonoscopy done (that's when a camera goes up the other end and observes your colon), and they found patches of inflammation through the distal end (the lower back) of my colon. At the time, the girl I was dating was very much into the vegan diet, and I had heard that this kind of eating could maybe help me out. Because the medication they gave me for my colitis made my ankles swell up when I went running. So I tried the vegan diet, and it worked very well. My flares had vanished, and all was well. Until it wasn't.
2 years later, and this body went from feeling great, colitis free- to a sluggish, tired, and not at all how I wanted to feel. After getting an education and knowing what I know now, I was probably not eating a balanced, plant-based diet, which lead me to feel unwell. In 2013 when I tuned into an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience. Joe featured Dave Asprey, who raved about his bulletproof coffee and the low carb way of eating. That you would have more energy throughout the day, no crashes, and with all of his "biohacks," be the best human you can be. Around this time, I began introducing meat back into my diet, so all of this fit the bill for my new way of eating.
My diet seemed to be working for the next couple of years, and my colitis hadn't come back. But I grew this sort of phobia for higher-carb foods. The hypothesis that carbohydrates make you fat was ingrained in my mind and still is from time to time. After getting an education, I realized that food should not be labelled good or bad. The carbohydrate-insulin model (aka, me being afraid of carbs) was bullshit. My whole narrative needed to change.
Fast track to now, and I am writing this to you dogma-free, with a purpose: to weed out bullshit information. Why? Because far too often, people like to scam others with "detoxes" and magic diets and formulas that cost a damn fortune and don't work.
So that is me, and that is my story. Follow my journey, and I will do my best to find and debunk some silly shit all over the internet, and provide to you USEFUL information that is easy to digest (hardy har har).