Metabolism matters

Metabolic Health starts HERE . . .

With over 25 years of real world experience we’ll show you how.

Sustainably.

Economically.

For Life.

The metabolic performance Difference:

95% of the metabolic health conversation is about not being sick.

Disease etiology. . . Disease treatment. . . Disease prevention. . . . Virtually all of the science, expert advice and information are framed around ‘Metabolic Health’ being defined as the absence of a disease and/or precursors of disease.

We approach things differently . . .

Conventional approach

Metabolic health

Baseline: the modern sedentary lifestyle or carbohydrate dependent athlete in the absence of disease.
Success: labs within the medical reference ranges for the modern human population (which can be outside the reference range for true metabolic health)
Goal: prevent or treat disease / short-term performance
Fuel: external carbohydrate, endlessly resupplied
Outcome: symptom relief & short-term performance gains w/ long-term metabolic derangement

our approach

Metabolic performance

Baseline: the body evolutionary biology built to MOVE, THINK & PERFORM
Success: metabolic capacity, efficiency, & flexibility = stronger, fitter, faster & more robust in every way
Goal: reach metabolic potential: perform / recover /adapt/ repeat
Fuel: your own fat, on demand, all day with carbohydrates used 'strategically'
Outcome: robust health & performance across every parameter; today, tomorrow, future

Health defined as the absence of disease is a diagnostic convenience. Health defined by what your metabolism can actually do is the real thing.

Here is the whole argument →

Too much sugar

You already know sugar is a problem. . . The problem is nobody told you that your diet and sports nutrition is made of it.

Anyone following standard dietary and fueling guidance consumes more sugar (as glucose) than they realize. — and, often, it is sold as healthy and necessary for performance when it meets the criteria as a “Legal PED”. Over time, this leads to metabolic derangement, performance decline and, subsequently, precursors for the development of disease or disease itself.

The performance cost

Riding a carbohydrate drip means every dip in supply becomes a dip in output. Bonking is not bad luck. It is a fuel system with a two-hour tank.

Evolutionarily, carbohydrates are a ‘fight or flight’ and ‘bridge’ energy source meant for short term metabolic needs. Used this way they not only work without long-term consequences but fuel positive metabolic adaptations.

Chronic use, however, results in metabolic derangement & hormonal imbalance making you ever more dependent upon higher amounts of glucose with eventual metabolic & athletic performance decline.

The gut cost

There is a ceiling on how much sugar (carbs) the gut can absorb under load. Race-day GI failure is usually the athlete hitting it.

Even if you currently do not experience GI issues from your diet & fueling the damage from consuming Too Much Sugar is still occurring.

There is a much greater long-term cost to a diet & fueling high in carbohydrates which is why Stomach & Gut Health are the third tier of the OFM Pyramid.

The health cost

Decades of chronically elevated glucose and insulin do not get a pass because you train. Even athletes are not exempt from the metabolic consequences. . .

We’ve ‘normalized’ the energy swings (bonking/hitting the wall), the GI issues, the injury frequency and decline.

This is NOT normal and our athletes demonstrate how you can slow the aging and performance declines to a crawl.

VESPA; a naturally-occurring "Metabolic Catalyst" to jump-start access to YOUR limitless energy stores

Reduce Your Sugar Intake

Nobody needs to tell you too much sugar is going to eventually ruin your health & performance, however, what you are not being told (and need to know ) is, metabolically speaking, carbohydrates are sugar (as glucose) as far as your body is concerned. With VESPA you can minimize your dependency on carbs for fueling and, instead, use carbs ‘strategically’ for the adaptive performance boost they’re meant to provide.

Improved Recovery

One of the Hallmarks of VESPA is a recovery you have to experience to believe is possible. Our athletes are back to training within days of an event because they are not “doing the damage” they need to recover from! By getting back to using the aerobic energy source Nature intended you to use VESPA simplifies and accelerates the recovery process by preventing cellular/mitochondrial damage . . . now that is a paradigm shift!

Lactate Load

Because VESPA increases fat metabolism you burn less sugar (glucose/glycogen) thus generating less lactate load (pH buffering) so you can perform at a higher level and be healthier by doing so. Our real world athlete testing demonstrates VESPA is an effective tool to reduce lactate load.

While Lactate can be used as a fuel, the generation of it in high amounts as a result of glycolysis (carb burning) places an acidic metabolic load which can limit performance on glucose.

Stable Blood Sugar

Imagine training and competing in that “flow” state of steady, constant energy, focus and coordination. This is what we call as being “Blood Sugar Stable” and this is what happens when you use VESPA to tap into your limitless energy.

Your brain and nervous system are hyper sensitive to any dip in glucose and/or ketone levels so well before you notice the loss of coordination, fine motor skills and energy your brain and neural cells are impacted.

Because, both glucose and ketone levels are so finely regulated it is impossible to maintain them solely through external fueling as you’ve been led to believe. VESPA enhances and supports your native physiology to keep you “on-point” to focus and execute.

The how:

A catalyst and a system to get you to your metabolic potential.

Metabolic health & performance merge in alignment with Nature.

This is attained through harnessing the available tools of:

diet & supplementation
physical activity
mental & emotional stimulation to evoke curiosity & thought over fear & reactivity
other lifestyle factors

There is no singular formula because each person is different.

This dictates an individualized approach which builds metabolic capacity to achieve your metabolic potential.

It is not one thing but everything which can make achieving your health & performance goals complicated and daunting.

Fortunately, we’ve developed the products and program which give you a jump-start on developing a step-by-step roadmap to restoring your native physiology then developing your potential.

Most of all we teach and inform you in a way that is intuitive to foster curiosity and motivation to develop a program which is sustainable in the context of your life and goals.

Our offerings are time tested (25+ years), developed at the very pinnacle of sports & ultra-endurance competition and based upon an evolutionary biology model instead of modern healthcare to deliver real world results.

Product

VESPA

A metabolic catalyst in a naturally-occurring peptide derived from the Giant Asian Wasp (known as the “Murder Hornets”) that signals your body to mobilize and metabolize fatty acids — sparing glycogen, flattening the glucose swings, and letting you fuel on what you are already carrying as well as on the aerobic energy source Nature intended you to harness.

VESPA CV-25 — The original ready-to-use formulation containing 100 mg of wasp extract peptide. Just shake and consume a full pouch 30 minutes prior to physical activity. Natural ingredients. Low sugar/low calorie. No stimulants.
VESPA Ultra Concentrate (UC) — Highly concentrated (175 mg of Wasp Extract Peptide) and requiring dilution, VESPA UC is designed for maximum portability and duration when logistics warrant.
VESPA Junior (JR) — VESPA JR combines 8 grams of carbohydrate from Orange Juice & Honey with 70 mg of wasp extract peptide for a quick acting performance boosting formula perfect for youth team sports and other high level activities.

Program

OFM

Optimized Fat Metabolism (OFM) is a comprehensive and individualized system which periodizes nutrition and training while addressing nutritional gaps in the diet, the biome (Stomach & Gut Health), and metabolic challenges as a result of our modern lifestyle in conjunction with the demands of modern life, training and competition.

OFM guides you to build the internal machinery. VESPA jump starts it.

Experience: With over 25 years of competition based field development across a variety of sports; ultra-endurance, triathlon, team sports, individual and tactical athletes, OFM and VESPA have yielded winning results in competition and longevity.

Find your entry point:

The metabolic argument, in your language.

An ultra-endurance athlete (IronMan Triathlete / Ultrarunner / Adventure Racer), soccer midfielder or firefighter/first responder all need the same metabolic edge yet the conversation is completely different.

Our solutions, properly adapted and applied to the mission and goals, deliver because all operate off your metabolic foundation.

Learn how to establish your metabolic foundation, then develop it to give yourself “The Metabolic Advantage”

Endurance & Ultra

You already suspect the gel-every-30-minutes plan is costing you.

Endurance athletes were the first to prove OFM at distance. Fewer calories in, fewer GI blowups, steadier output at hours or even days into an event with a recovery you have to experience to believe is possible.

Team Sports

The second half of the game is a metabolic problem, not a conditioning problem.

Repeat-sprint sports run on a fuel system nobody coaches. Athletes who can access fat between glycolytic efforts recover faster, retain their focus, fine motor skills and speed deeper into a game or a tournament weekend.

Tactical & Occupational

Sustain performance when resupply, sleep, and schedule are not yours to control.

Military, fire, and first responders need output that does not depend on eating on a schedule. Metabolic flexibility is operational resilience.

Health & Longevity

You do not have a disease. What's missing is your potential. We help you develop it.

Most metabolic health advice stops at ‘your labs and body mass are normal’. . . ‘normal’ being defined in the context of the modern and relatively sedentary lifestyle most humans occupy.

This has the so-called “healthy” population sitting adjacent to the edge of a metabolic derangement cliff.

Metabolic performance asks a different question: how much capacity can you actually build to become robust, thus truly healthy? This moves you away from the cliff to give you the flexibility to live life on your terms rather than a life of restrictions and medications.

Free, all of it

The entire OFM library is open.

No paywall on the knowledge. We would rather you understand your own metabolism than buy something you are not ready for.

Course

OFM Foundations

The complete metabolic framework — what fat adaptation is, and what it is not.

Article series

The Sugar Problem in Sport

Why performance nutrition standardized on the one fuel with the worst metabolic tail.

Protocols

VESPA Protocol Guides

Dosing and timing for every distance, sport, and condition.

Science

Research Library

Peer-reviewed work on fat oxidation, metabolic flexibility, and substrate use.

Reference

Metabolic FAQ

Straight answers to the questions athletes actually ask on week two.

Stories

Athlete Case Files

Real protocols from real seasons, including what went wrong first.

Find your entry point

Ask anything about metabolic health. Free.

Our AI is trained on the OFM body of work and the metabolic literature. Ask it why you crash at mile eighteen, what fat adaptation actually changes, or how to fuel a tournament weekend.

Want it personal? The paid tier builds an individualized optimization plan — with an OFM coach and physician oversight available.

You were not built to operate on a hit of sugar every twenty minutes.

One site. The products, the program, the science, and the information . . . along with real people, just like you, who are living their best lives.