The Roadmap

Optimized Fat Metabolism

"fat is your fuel"

OFM is not a low-carb or ‘keto’ diet with a new name. It’s a comprehensive system, based upon the science of evolutionary biology, that teaches your body to metabolize body fat as the primary energy substrate to produce:

Fatty acids, as the primary aerobic energy source via beta-oxidation
Glucose (Carbohydrates), via gluconeogenesis for a titrated and sustainable glucose supply so you are not dependent upon an external carbohydrate supply.
Ketones, via ketogenesis for a clean burning parallel energy source for brain and neural function.

Carbohydrates are harnessed strategically in the diet and fueling to maintain and build the metabolic pathways necessary for performance and the adaptive stress of high level training to build robust health.

"lipids are life"

When you optimize your fat metabolism you are not simply tapping into your infinite energy stores but an infinite set of metabolic pathways that sustain life:

Cell Membranes & Mitochondria
Hormones & Enzymes
Protein Synthesis
Digestion via bile

Virtually all metabolic pathways that maintain and build robust health are fat-mediated. This includes cholesterol, a fat based component of Life.

Cholesterol is not the problem. It is the impairment of cholesterol’s proper metabolic pathways due to:

Overconsumption of sugar (carbs)
Overconsumption (positive energy balance)
A largely sedentary lifestyle

Cholesterol lowering strategies do not address the root cause metabolic impairment created from a modern lifestyle and have serious side effects that effectively permanently anchor you to the healthcare system.

When metabolically fit your liver supplies more than adequate glucose and ketones for optimal brain and neural cell function from fat/cholesterol.

Glucose is meant to serve as an immediate “fight or flight” and “bridge” energy source for muscle cells and as one of the primary energy sources, in parallel with ketones, for brain and neural cell energy.

The system

Three Phases:

metabolic reset

The Metabolic Reset (MR) guides you in a doable way to reset your metabolic state back to its natural state and get you ready to start building your metabolic capacity.

The MR addresses many of the avoidable pitfalls people face when trying to implement fundamental physiological change so they can build their potential in the Adaptation Phase for real world sustainability.

Performance adaptation

The Adaptation Phase focuses on building Metabolic Capacity through OFM Disruptive Periodization Training tailored to your lifestyle or sport.

As you gain Metabolic Capacity, carbohydrates are often introduced strategically into the diet and fueling to maximize their performance impact while minimizing the negative impacts of what is, essentially, sugar.

Through building Metabolic Capacity you gain the metabolic flexibility and carbohydrate tolerance for a stress-free and sustainable way of Life that frees your from the stress of counting calories or calculating macros.

lifestyle Integration

A supported journey of complete autonomy and personal agency, the Integration Phase of OFM is where you are firmly in the driver’s seat of your destiny.

Through the structured guidance of the MR and Adaptation phases of OFM and with the support of access to our vast knowledge base the reins get passed to you to tweak, adapt, execute and reach the goals you have.

Most of all the OFM approach allows you to live Life fully and without the stress of conscious structure.

The OFM Pyramid of Health & Performance

OFM

OFM was originally developed as an outgrowth of supporting VESPA athletes to achieve their potential. While VESPA is not mandatory to achieve robust health, if you are looking to optimize your performance potential and metabolic capacity it is essential. VESPA is also a fantastic tool for streamlining the process of reaching the OFM state because it ‘jump starts’ your fat metabolism.

"Strategic" Carbohydrates

“Strategic” carbohydrates are a key tool in OFM. This is because the use of concentrated carbohydrates yields that performance push thus the hormetic stress necessary for the adaptive signaling to build mitochondria and for cells to become more efficient and robust in every way. This is why OFM athletes can build the metabolic capacity to metabolize fat at unprecedented levels.

Our perspective of concentrated forms of carbohydrates is that we view them as a “Legal PED” because they fit the description. Used strategically carbohydrates are a vital tool for achieving both your health and performance potential.

VESPA

Hydration

Hydration is the most dynamic aspect of OFM and critical to both health and performance. It is crucially important if you want to experience the superior performance OFM provides.

The science of hydration is complex and imperfect. There is no ‘precision hydration’ formula. However, by understanding some basics and being aware of the signals, learning how to master your hydration needs makes executing hydration an intuitive task both in sport and life.

Training & Lifestyle

Because Training & Lifestyle are so intricately intertwined they occupy a single Tier of the OFM Pyramid, however, we break them down into two sub-categories each with several areas of actionable content to address to achieve “Higher Health & Peak Performance”:

Training: The multidimensional concept for “OFM Disruptive Periodization Training”
Lifestyle: Various areas of Life which impact OFM and how to make doable changes within the context of your life so they are sustainable

Stomach & Gut Health

Stomach & Gut Health is intricately tied to whole body health and performance which OFM breaks down into three principal components:

Epithelium composed of epithelial cells and mucous membrane
The Biome composed of bacteria, fungi and archaea which reside in the Epithelium
Function of stomach acid and gall bladder

Stomach & Gut Health is crucial for:

Digestion and absorption of nutrition
Conversion of nutritional elements in food to critical building blocks for life
Breaking down of foreign proteins and other potentially harmful elements
Mitigating excess carbohydrate/sugar consumption
Minimizing D-Lactate synthesis due to gut dysbiosis
Energy delivery of fat, ketones & glucose
Hormonal balance
Immune system health / prevention of the development of auto-immune disease
Prevention of localized and systemic inflammation
Disease prevention
Longevity
Mental & Emotional health

Nutrition NOT Calories

Focusing on the Nutritional elements necessary to build and fuel the body are critical to any health, wellness or performance nutrition plan, however, by optimizing your fat metabolism, you optimize nutritional uptake and utilization thus minimize the metabolic loads of excess calories and nutritional imbalances.

"Fat Adapted" Metabolic State

The “Fat Adapted” Metabolic State forms the foundation of your Metabolic Health and Performance because fat metabolism:

Is the principal aerobic energy source that your body is meant to use to power you.
Fat Metabolism (also termed as ‘Lipid Metabolism’) is the metabolic pathway that makes you, you! Every element in your body (cells, mitochondria, hormones, enzymes, DNA, RNA etc.) are built via fat based metabolic pathways.

Do it yourself, or do it with us.

DIY, Group, Coached or Custom

Self-guided

Mobilize

The complete Optimized Fat Metabolism system: nutrition periodization, training integration, VESPA protocol, and the metabolic logic behind every step.

1:1

OFM Coaching & Consulting

Work directly with OFM coaches to build a metabolic plan around your physiology, your sport, and your calendar — then adjust it with real data.

In development

AuVentures Wellness Platform

A partnership bringing patented clinical software into health, wellness, and performance optimization — individualized metabolic guidance with optional coach or physician oversight.

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