Max

Nutrition - Bioenergetics - Performance | Optimal Health through natural laws

[Max @MPfounder]

What fresh raw milk, grass fed raw meats, saturated fat and cholesterol, collagenous bone broth, oysters, homemade raw ice cream, coconut oil, separating high carb meals from high fat meals, royal jelly, raw local honey, waking up at sunrise, full body sun, seasonal fruit and vegetables, supporting your local farmer, minimising artificial blue light, not overtraining, realising life is a game and the goal is to have fun & not stress does to your vitality.

[Max @MPfounder]

Raw meat dishes - tartare, ceviche, oysters, rare steaks, raw egg yolks - provide crucial, intact compounds needed for metabolism that cooking can destroy.

Fresh fruits, juices, raw milk and occasional starchy carbohydrates provide the substrate that run mitochondrial energy production.

Add an optimal light environment coordinating the rhythms of every essential hormone and energy producing process.

Then add an adequate training stimulus, ideally done outside - calisthenics, weights, manual labour.

These 4 things combined is the near perfect recipe for gaining muscle, losing fat, tightening the waist and producing clean sustained energy.

[Max @MPfounder]

Eat more raw meat dishes for metabolic supremacy

People talk about sugar for increasing metabolic rate and shredding fat. Which is valid.

But efficient glucose oxidation requires a system involving specific heat sensitive metabolic compounds, which raw meat dishes provide perfectly - cooking significantly reduces, and sometimes completely destroys, some of these crucial compounds.

B vitamins - B1 (thiamine) is the gatekeeper of metabolism. It runs PDH (pyruvate dehydrogenase), the enzyme that converts glucose into usable energy. This is the reason a lot of ray peaters supplement B1, which I'm not completely against in certain scenarios. But pork is especially high in it as well as liver, and other raw meats have good amounts of it. B vitamins are water soluble meaning heat degrades them.

Taurine - Raw meat is one of the richest sources. Taurine directly supports mitochondrial function, bile acid conjugation, and blunts cortisol which prevents metabolism from tanking.

CoQ10 - especially found in heart. It's what the electron transport chain runs on. So if there is insufficient CoQ10, there's no efficient ATP production. While not an essential nutrient seeing as your body endogenously produces it too, it relies on healthy mitochondria to produce it, and raw meat helps keep mitochondria healthy.

Carnitine - shuttles acetyl groups (which acts as a brake for energy production) out of the mitochondria, allowing PDH to support mitochondrial glucose entry to produce energy cleanly.

Creatine - present in its active form in raw meat. Cooking converts a lot of it to creatinine, which is considered a waste product. Active creatine supports cellular energy buffering and reduces the oxidative burden on your NADPH pool - the same pool required for testosterone to DHT conversion.

Glutathione - your master antioxidant. Significantly reduced when cooked. Oxidative stress (from intense exercise, gut endotoxin, seed oils etc) suppresses thyroid function and therefore metabolism. But glutathione works to protect it.

Enzymes - raw meat contains its own proteolytic enzymes that aids in tenderising and digesting the protein. Less digestive burden means more metabolic energy available.

Eat more oysters, ceviche and steak tartare.

[Max @MPfounder]

Most people are calorie sufficient, but energy deficient.

Here are a lot of the key mitochondrial nutrients your cells actually need to produce clean energy:

B1 thiamine - rate limiting cofactor for Pyruvate dehydrogenase enzyme, essentially igniting the engine to turn carbs into energy, not lactic acid - pork, liver, raw meat, nutritional yeast, supplement if needed

B2 riboflavin - become electron carriers after activation keeping the electric current that carries ATP going - liver, beef, lamb, kidneys, eggs, raw dairy

B3 niacin - Creates NAD+, the life force of every cell in metabolism - seafood, liver, meat

B5 pantothenic acid - for CoA synthesis, acting like a key that unlocks the oxidation of food - liver, egg yolks, avocado

Sunlight - infrared directly stimulates complex IV of ETC supercharging cellular power and repair

Adequate carbohydrates - provides the exact substrates that run mitochondrial energy production - seasonal fruits, rice, root vegetables

Magnesium - crucial for your cells to actually use the energy - mineral water, raw cacao, supplement

Iron - physically carries electric charge needed for all iron-dependent processes - liver, red meat, oysters

Copper - crucial for ATP production completion - liver, oysters

Vitamin A - activates copper utilisation - liver, raw egg yolks

Manganese - shields the inner mitochondrial matrix from oxidative damage - shellfish, teas, cacao

CoQ10 - crucial electron carrier required for ATP - heart, raw fish

L-Carnitine - transports fatty acids into the mitochondria for beta oxidation - red meat, heart, lamb

DHA - inner mitochondrial membrane fluidity to keep the whole energy machinery running - raw fatty fish, oysters, egg yolks

Glycine - rate limiting glutathione precursor and creatine synthesis - bone broth, collagenous cuts, gelatin

Remove seed oils - linoleic acid gets built into cell membranes, ultimately causing them to fail in function

[Max @MPfounder]

Overtime, the regret of not taking risk to create something becomes a greater pain than the pain you would have gotten from taking that risk.

And at it's core, the reason why people don't take this risk anymore is a mitochondrial cellular ENERGY problem.

The modern world has made it near impossible for us not to have this problem.
Barely enough energy to exist, let alone enough energy to take risks, start and learn new things, build things, have purpose and actually progress in life and not stagnate.

This energy problem then creates the modern hormonal state of the person with low drive, low willingness to take risk and overall chronic purposelessness.

High glutamate:gaba ratio, high cortisol and adrenaline, low testosterone, high prolactin, low dopamine etc.

The hormones/neurotransmitters and the metabolic state then enter a vicious bidirectional feedback loop, where the suboptimal hormones impair metabolism, and the impaired metabolism and mitochondria struggles to synthesise hormones/neurotransmitters.

This is why even if someone eats clean food, trains hard and gets sunlight, oftentimes they will still not feel quite right - because you need to look at nutrition from 3 angles: intake, absorption and utilisation.

Clean food in itself doesn't guarantee feeling optimal because absorption and utilisation within the body may be impaired.

Because there may be gut problems preventing the food from being absorbed, or nutrients and specific cofactors missing that act as the enzymatic machinery in the energy creation and utlisation process.

And most of these issues come from inadequate diet and not doing the fundamentals of health - light environment, sleep, community, movement, myofascial release/mobility, stress/trauma work.

Energy powers your cells, which powers your hormones, which power your decisions, your courage, behaviour and your capacity to build and create.

Energy is everything.

[Max @MPfounder]

There would be a huge surge in truly exceptional athletes if they started recovering properly

-full body sunlight
-Myofascial release on tight muscles and abdomen to address stress/trauma
-Build a sleep fortress and sleep early
-Genuine darkness in the PM (train the AM or early afternoon)
-adequate high quality protein (animal foods)
-improve carbs utilisation by eating outside in the sun
-Mineral water with sea salt, potassium and magnesium
-abundance of fresh fruit and starch
-ensure micronutrient saturation, especially b vitamins (eg raw liver)
-Bone broth
-Supps like magnesium glycinate, glycine, taurine, l glutamine, zinc carnosine
-Grounding
-Nasal breathing/breathing methods like buteyko
-Hot baths/Sauna
-Morning sunlight immediately after waking

[Max @MPfounder]

Sashimi, rice, fruit, L glutamine and zinc carnosine is still one of the best post training meals I've tried.

Every component addresses a different bottleneck in the recovery process.

Raw fish for amino acids, intact vitamins and minerals for hormones and optimal metabolic and thyroid function.

Rice for glycogen replenishment. Fruit for hydration.

L glutamine and zinc carnosine for gut integrity and reducing the intestinal permeability that can occur after training, reducing the LPS endotoxin - induced inflammation.

Makes you wake up the morning after with filled muscles in an anabolic way that few meals do.

[Max @MPfounder]

Overtime, the regret of not taking risk to create something becomes a greater pain than the pain you would have gotten from taking that risk.

And at it's core, the reason why people don't take this risk anymore is a mitochondrial cellular ENERGY problem.

The modern world has made it near impossible for us not to have this problem.
Barely enough energy to exist, let alone enough energy to take risks, start and learn new things, build things, have purpose and actually progress in life and not stagnate.

This energy problem then creates the modern hormonal state of the person with low drive, low willingness to take risk and overall chronic purposelessness.

High glutamate:gaba ratio, high cortisol and adrenaline, low testosterone, high prolactin, low dopamine etc.

The hormones/neurotransmitters and the metabolic state then enter a vicious bidirectional feedback loop, where the suboptimal hormones impair metabolism, and the impaired metabolism and mitochondria struggles to synthesise hormones/neurotransmitters.

This is why even if someone eats clean food, trains hard and gets sunlight, oftentimes they will still not feel quite right - because you need to look at nutrition from 3 angles: intake, absorption and utilisation.

Clean food in itself doesn't guarantee feeling optimal because absorption and utilisation within the body may be impaired.

Because there may be gut problems preventing the food from being absorbed, or nutrients and specific cofactors missing that act as the enzymatic machinery in the energy creation and utlisation process.

And most of these issues come from inadequate diet and not doing the fundamentals of health - light environment, sleep, community, movement, myofascial release/mobility, stress/trauma work.

Energy powers your cells, which powers your hormones, which power your decisions, your courage, behaviour and your capacity to build and create.

Energy is everything.

[Max @MPfounder]

@lennartprimal Raw peat diet>>

[Max @MPfounder]

Sashimi, rice, fruit, L glutamine and zinc carnosine is still one of the best post training meals I've tried.

Every component addresses a different bottleneck in the recovery process.

Raw fish for amino acids, intact vitamins and minerals for hormones and optimal metabolic and thyroid function.

Rice for glycogen replenishment. Fruit for hydration.

L glutamine and zinc carnosine for gut integrity and reducing the intestinal permeability that can occur after training, reducing the LPS endotoxin - induced inflammation.

Makes you wake up the morning after with filled muscles in an anabolic way that few meals do.

[Max @MPfounder]

Eat more raw seafood for development, hormones, metabolism, skin health and effortless summer tanning

[Max @MPfounder]

"Nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished"

People nowadays try and force health optimisation and healing.

People force their morning with an alarm and multiple coffees on an empty stomach. Force their body into shape with aggressive training protocols and dieting. Force focus with damaging stimulants. Force healing with radical interventions.

But ultimately, forcing things this way goes against the fundamental principle of living systems - that order self organises, continuously and automatically, only around coherent inputs and once the natural conditions for it are provided.

The harder you force the outcome the further it moves away from you.

The seed doesn't unnaturally force its way to become a tree. Nor do rivers unnaturally force their way into oceans. They have the right energy flowing through it, which naturally brings them to where they should be at the right time and place.

Your biology is the exact same. So whatever problem you may be facing - whether it be body composition, acne, hair loss, motivation and drive etc - acknowledge and know that once you're doing the work, it's just a matter of time before your body self organises back into order and biological harmony.

And doing the work means doing the protocol/supplements specific to your problem along with mastering the fundamentals - light, sleep, nutrition, human connection, breathing, movement, purpose.

But you're doing it while taking a big step back from your problems, not thinking about them and getting the f out their way.

Don't wake up every morning and check on your problem, hyper fixating on micro progress - this will activate the sympathetic nervous system, flooding your body with cortisol and adrenaline, ultimately supressing your healing.

You're doing the work, so nature will reward you in its own time.

Its inevitable

[Max @MPfounder]

@itsjanabend 100%.
problem is the modern environment makes the combination of these two so easy and appealing for people with sub-par biology

[Max @MPfounder]

Its wild to me that most people know they get one chance at this game of life, but unknowingly sabotage their health.

Wake up with an alarm. 3 Black coffees before any food just to feel awake. Intense fasted cardio. Going to a job that doesn't resonate with your purpose. Sit 8 hours a day. Mindlessly consuming. Your commute from work to home is the only time you get fresh air all day. Processed ready made meal for dinner. Netflix brainrot in the evening. Critical thinking and creativity gone from tech abuse dopamine depletion. Blue light before bed. Critical hormone rhythms completely out of sync. Wake up unrested. The whole cycle repeats. Living in circles.

These people live stagnant, repetitive, disconnected lives, not realising that we are nature - therefore living against it will be fighting an uphill battle against feeling like you're actually living, not just merely there.

What most don't realise is that you're one spontaneous adventure, a couple convos with strangers, a few mornings at your farmers market, a few sunrise wakings, sunlight in eyes, many slow deep breaths, a dozen oysters, a sunset swim, a few deep sleeps, ceviches and tartares, time spent with feet on earth, an abundance of fresh fruits away from being so, so back and actually realising what it means to be human.

This gets you feeling alive and moving. And physical movement breaks mental stagnation.

Breaking stagnation restores the clarity you need to connect with your purpose.

The environment you have placed yourself in then demands androgen hormones to be firing, because you're in the environment where you NEED them for survival. The food you eat will be used as fuel. Your body will start to shape up.

Little things make you happy again. You do things because you want to, because they make you feel good - not because you know you have to do them.

You feel like a child again. An actual free human, doing what intuitively makes them happy.

There is then full synchronicity between your internal biology and the external demand, because you have achieved true health.

This is what it feels like to be alive.

Healthmaxxing in 2026.

[Max @MPfounder]

Nature always rewards you for living right - in terms of body composition, energy, motivation, drive, purpose happiness and simply enjoyment in life.

Start lifemaxxing by healthmaxxing

[Max @MPfounder]

Its wild to me that most people know they get one chance at this game of life, but unknowingly sabotage their health.

Wake up with an alarm. 3 Black coffees before any food just to feel awake. Intense fasted cardio. Going to a job that doesn't resonate with your purpose. Sit 8 hours a day. Mindlessly consuming. Your commute from work to home is the only time you get fresh air all day. Processed ready made meal for dinner. Netflix brainrot in the evening. Critical thinking and creativity gone from tech abuse dopamine depletion. Blue light before bed. Critical hormone rhythms completely out of sync. Wake up unrested. The whole cycle repeats. Living in circles.

These people live stagnant, repetitive, disconnected lives, not realising that we are nature - therefore living against it will be fighting an uphill battle against feeling like you're actually living, not just merely there.

What most don't realise is that you're one spontaneous adventure, a couple convos with strangers, a few mornings at your farmers market, a few sunrise wakings, sunlight in eyes, many slow deep breaths, a dozen oysters, a sunset swim, a few deep sleeps, ceviches and tartares, time spent with feet on earth, an abundance of fresh fruits away from being so, so back and actually realising what it means to be human.

This gets you feeling alive and moving. And physical movement breaks mental stagnation.

Breaking stagnation restores the clarity you need to connect with your purpose.

The environment you have placed yourself in then demands androgen hormones to be firing, because you're in the environment where you NEED them for survival. The food you eat will be used as fuel. Your body will start to shape up.

Little things make you happy again. You do things because you want to, because they make you feel good - not because you know you have to do them.

You feel like a child again. An actual free human, doing what intuitively makes them happy.

There is then full synchronicity between your internal biology and the external demand, because you have achieved true health.

This is what it feels like to be alive.

Healthmaxxing in 2026.

[Max @MPfounder]

How to actually carbmaxx before training for elite performance every time.

I often find that hydration is more important than carbs before training. Both are vital, but on days where I haven't hydrated well enough, even adequate carbs will not save the session.

In terms of carbs, a balance of fast digesting natural sugars from fresh fruit or juice is optimal before training.
Fructose efficiently replenishes liver glycogen without triggering an insulin spike that could cause a mid-session energy crash, while glucose helps give quick energy, delays fatigue and maintains the muscle glycogen needed to sustain peak explosive power during heavy lifts.

This is what works for me everytime

Mineral water with electrolytes - High mineral water (like gerolsteiner and vichy catalan) with a pinch of sea salt, potassium and magnesium.
Sea salt activates SGLT1 pulling water directly into cells rather than just filling the stomach.
Potassium governs muscle contraction and nerve conduction.
Magnesium is required for every ATP synthesis step, meaning its needed for every muscle contraction.

When you give your body true cellular hydration, you will feel it profoundly not only in your workouts, but also your skin will glow more and face will be leaner.

Fresh OJ - the 1 to 1 ratio of glucose to fructose helps top off muscle and liver energy stores and its high potassium content as an intracellular electrolyte helps optimise muscle contractions, powerful pump and hydration

Pomegranate juice - punicalagins increase nitric oxide through eNOS activation driving vasodilation superior muscle pump and delayed fatigue during heavy sets.

Natural L-Theanine - provides a critical cognitive edge and helps smooth out central nervous system jitters and anxiety to unlock a state of calm, laser-focused tunnel vision.

Drink all of this 40 to 60 minutes before training

Training will feel euphoric everytime

[Max @MPfounder]

It's summer. Which means it's naturally time to carbmaxx.

Eat more carbs to get leaner, optimise your hormones, and feel like your most energetic self.

UV light from summer sun increases nitric oxide and vitamin D - both of which directly improve insulin sensitivity and glucose handling, shuttling glucose into muscles and liver glycogen and not fat.

Summer carbohydrates also drive mTOR, the anabolic growth pathway that builds tissue, synthesises proteins and drives the fertility and vitality that we are naturally meant to have in summer - and carbs provide the electrons and protons entering mitochondrial Complex I that fuel this energy and vitality production.

Adequate carbohydrates lower SHBG - freeing up bound testosterone.

They fill liver glycogen - giving your body a signal of abundance that reduces the cortisol that makes you store fat.

They support T3 activation - supporting increased metabolic rate and body composition.

And they provide the glucose that the pentose phosphate pathway uses to produce NADPH, which is the cofactor for the enzyme (5 alpha reductase) that converts testosterone to DHT.

They're also incredibly hydrating and a great source of electrolytes - especially given the fact that sweating from the sun depletes them.

Summer is your body's natural growth season. Eat carbs to get leaner, muscular, more aesthetic.

[Max @MPfounder]

What being in top 5% health actually looks like in practice by incorporating health fundamentals and living in a natural environment that is coherent with your biology:

Morning - outside very soon after waking with your bare feet on the ground if you can. Embrace the slow mornings

Nutrition - base everything around what an animal or the sea provides and eat the whole animal. Add seasonal fruit, root vegetables and fermented foods and fill in any nutrient gaps you may have based on your needs - eg: oysters, land meats, tartares, ceviches, fatty fish, fresh fruits, raw milk, cheese, yoghurt, kefir, potatoes

Purpose and craft - something you wake up everyday thinking about. Could be a craft that demands high level skill, something for your family or a business/product you're creating. Whatever it is, having that purpose is one of the biggest needle movers for hormones.

Movement - walk everywhere possible, sprint, swim in natural water, beach football, lift heavy things, move with kettlebells, mobility work, move on varied terrain.

Light - sunlight on skin and eyes throughout the day whenever possible and have genuine darkness after sunset. Use candelights or red incandescent bulbs or blue light blockers.

Temperature - be cold sometimes. Be warm sometimes but at the right times.

Hunger - let it arrive fully before eating. Embrace it sometimes rather than always immediately looking to resolve it

Challenge - genuine physical and competitive challenge with something real at stake

Connection - long meals and time spent with people you genuinely like with real conversations and laughter

Stress and emotional health - address chronic stress and unresolved emotional patterns through breathwork, myofascial release, time in nature, human connection etc

Silence - sit with nothing for at least thirty minutes daily. Give your mind the time to connect dots and produce rather than consume 24/7

Sleep - not long after sunset, in a dark, fairly cold room with no technology near you.

Everything beyond this is just optimisation through functional bloodwork analysis, specific protocols and supplementation.

[Max @MPfounder]

Homemade fresh OJ gelatin gummies is an elite summer food

Glycine in gelatin supports tight junction proteins in your gut, improving your gut integrity and minimising leaky gut. This helps reduce systemic inflammation and joint pain, improving metabolic health and body composition down the line.

Not only good for the gut, but also a powerhouse for collagen synthesis in the skin.
Vitamin C from the fresh orange juice is an essential co-factor for the enzymes prolyl hydroxylase and lysyl hydroxylase. These convert proline and lysine amino acids into collagen, building strong, hydrated skin. Gelatin also helps the body synthesise keratin, strengthening your hair.

Also great for stress, anxiety, and racing thoughts. Glycine acts as a powerful calming neurotransmitter by making it harder for neurons to fire action potentials. This effectively shuts down excitatory, anxiety-inducing signals and works in perfect harmony with your brain's GABA system - bringing your body and mind into a calm state of deep relaxation.

A refreshing, hydrating, anabolic, and delicious summer staple - especially for when you can't make collagenous broths.

[Max @MPfounder]

Why you should start raw fermented dairy maxxing

Lactoferrin - known as the "miracle molecule" which binds and neutralises LPS endotoxin, blunting the effects of a significant driver of suppressed testosterone, impaired fat oxidation, insulin resistance, elevated cortisol and chronic inflammation that all create body composition and metabolic issues. Has a host of more incredible properties beyond this.

L. reuteri - one of my favourite bacteria because it stimulates oxytocin production through vagal nerve activation and gut secretin signalling, enhancing steroidogenic enzyme activity supporting testosterone synthesis. It also blocks pro inflammatory cytokines which helps reduce systemic inflammation, which is optimal for energy production and body composition.

Other diverse bacterial strains - the natural bacterial matrix of raw fermented dairy populate the microbiome and help crowd out harmful bacteria, seals and restores gut barrier integrity, produces butyrate improving insulin sensitivity and mitochondrial biogenesis and help reduce endotoxin load.

Bioactive peptides - support blood glucose and insulin sensitivity supporting optimal body composition, have blood pressure reducing properties, immunomodulatory effects and the deeply satisfying calm that fermented dairy gives you.

Vitamin K2 - activates Matrix GLA Protein preventing calcium from calcifying soft tissue and directs calcium into bone. It is therefore an excellent food for bone density and growth.

Lactic acid environment - lowers gut pH selectively suppressing pathogenic gram negative bacteria while supporting beneficial strains.

Fat soluble vitamins intact - Vitamin A retinol supports steroidogenesis and thyroid function, vitamin D increases calcium and phosphorus absorption and regulates immune cell function, and vitamin E is an antioxidant that protects cell membranes from oxidative damage and supports optimal hormone production.

[Max @MPfounder]

Raw fermented dairy was the primary food of one of the most physically dominant and androgenic conquering people in human history.
Men who built the largest land empire ever recorded, rode 40-100 miles daily for months and defeated armies across multiple continents.

They were the Mongols.

Kumiss, raw fermented mare's milk, was the primary food of Mongol warriors, especially during summer. A prized staple in an anabolic, high testosterone and vitality diet.

One of the primary benefits of raw fermented dairy is neutralising and preventing the LPS gut endotoxin that drives low testosterone, chronic inflammation, impaired dopamine, insulin resistance, elevated cortisol and poor body composition in the modern human - mainly through the live beneficial bacteria and lactoferrin in the fermented dairy.

And modern humans have the dysfunctional biology that raw fermented dairy is amazing for.
Permeable gut leaking endotoxin into the bloodstream suppressing hormones like testosterone and inflaming the brain. A depleted microbiome from antibiotics, stress, alcohol and processed food. Dysregulated immune function. Chronically elevated baseline cortisol from modern life in general.

The vast majority of traditional cultures all had some sort of fermented food in their diet, and for many it was dairy - and yet most food products today are pasteurised and processed.

So you need to be raw fermented dairymaxxing for true health and power.

[Max @MPfounder]

Start fascia maxxing with optimal nutrition.

Quality, intelligent nutrition + mobility and myofascial release work will always be more effective than the latter alone.

Glycine - rate limiting amino acid comprising one third of every collagen molecule - bone broth, collagenous cuts and skin-on meats

Vitamin C - cofactor for the enzymes that lock collagen strands into stable crosslinks -fresh citrus and seasonal fruit

Copper - Activates lysyl oxidase to crosslink collagen and elastin for high-rebound elasticity - liver and oysters

Zinc - Activates metalloproteinases to systematically clear and repair micro-tears in fascial tissue - oysters, red meat and organs

Proline - second most abundant amino acid in collagen required for the triple helix structure giving fascia its tensile integrity - bone broth, collagenous cuts and egg whites

Magnesium - Generates the cellular ATP energy required to fuel tissue synthesis and works together with vitamin C - mineral water, raw cacao and supplement if needed

Vitamin A - Signals fibroblast cells to actively create fresh new collagen - liver and raw egg yolks

DHA - Fluidifies fascial cell membranes and helps control the inflammation that stiffens tissue - raw seafood, especially fatty seafood

Silica - Supports the proteoglycan matrix to hydrate the fascia and give it viscoelastic properties - mineral water like Fiji or volvic water

Remove seed oils - Stops linoleic acid accumulation from oxidizing membranes and disrupting electrical function.

Vitamin K2 - ensures calcium goes into bone rather than calcifying the fascia and soft tissue that flexibility requires - raw dairy and fermented foods

Manganese - cofactor for prolidase recycling proline from degraded collagen back into new synthesis - shellfish and oysters

[Max @MPfounder]

Most people think nutrition only affects how they feel internally - energy, mood, hormones, skin.

But nutrition also determines how cleanly you move, your physical presence, and the energy you project into every room you walk into by affecting the mechanical quality of every movement you make.

This is through Fascia - and nutrition has a direct impact on the integrity and function of it because fascia is composed primarily of collagen - so it requires glycine from bone broth and collagenous cuts, vitamin C, zinc, DHA, copper, magnesium and many others to synthesise and maintain correctly.

When fascia is restricted from bad nutrition and lack of movement - dehydrated, full of adhesions and locked in the postural patterns of chronic stress - the piezoelectric signalling and semi-conductive properties lose functioning, which can restrict the interstitial fluid transport that delivers hormones from their production site to their target receptors.

The consequences of neglecting all of this are visible and significant - compressed posture, erection problems, restricted movement, inflammation, reduced joint range, impaired organ motility and hormonal suppression (affecting male androgen hormones too).

But nutrition alone is not enough.

Infrared from sunlight charges the structured EZ water inside fascial tissue that gives it its semiconducting properties.
Natural, varied movement maintains fascial glide and hydration (isolated gym machines won't do this effectively), after which adequate sleep is then crucial for the overnight fascial repair and collagen synthesis.
Circadian alignment governs the cortisol rhythm which, when disrupted, degrades collagen and impairs the fibroblast activity that fascia needs for function.

Optimise your fascia for clean movement, superior energy and health.

[Max @MPfounder]

Important to note, people with histamine intolerance, leaky gut or small intestinal bacterial overgrowth may not do so well with fermented foods and experience bloating, skin flushes, headaches etc - so there would need to be some temporary work done in that regard before you can start reaping the amazing benefits from fermented dairy.

But if you feel good consuming it, then thats a great sign.

Also for anyone who is lactose intolerant, fermented dairy has most of its lactose consumed by bacteria during fermentation and is significantly better tolerated than fresh milk for most people.

[Max @MPfounder]

Raw fermented dairy was the primary food of one of the most physically dominant and androgenic conquering people in human history.
Men who built the largest land empire ever recorded, rode 40-100 miles daily for months and defeated armies across multiple continents.

They were the Mongols.

Kumiss, raw fermented mare's milk, was the primary food of Mongol warriors, especially during summer. A prized staple in an anabolic, high testosterone and vitality diet.

One of the primary benefits of raw fermented dairy is neutralising and preventing the LPS gut endotoxin that drives low testosterone, chronic inflammation, impaired dopamine, insulin resistance, elevated cortisol and poor body composition in the modern human - mainly through the live beneficial bacteria and lactoferrin in the fermented dairy.

And modern humans have the dysfunctional biology that raw fermented dairy is amazing for.
Permeable gut leaking endotoxin into the bloodstream suppressing hormones like testosterone and inflaming the brain. A depleted microbiome from antibiotics, stress, alcohol and processed food. Dysregulated immune function. Chronically elevated baseline cortisol from modern life in general.

The vast majority of traditional cultures all had some sort of fermented food in their diet, and for many it was dairy - and yet most food products today are pasteurised and processed.

So you need to be raw fermented dairymaxxing for true health and power.

[Max @MPfounder]

No "hack" or health trick you do will make you healthy if you're not mastering the fundamentals - light, sleep, nutrition, human connection, natural movement, purpose and craft etc.

But once you've incorporated the fundamentals,
here are some of the best ways to protect your health from the modern world:

- boar/hair bristle toothbrush - avoiding the common plastic bristles

- natural fibre clothes and underwear (cotton, linen, wool) - avoiding synthetic polyester leaching microplastics and phthalates into your skin

- blue light blockers - blocking artificial blue light at night to protect circadian rhythm that is needed for crucial circadian hormones like dopamine, leptin, testosterone.

- wooden chopping boards and kitchen utensils - to reduce BPA and phthalate exposure from plastic, which activate feminising oestrogen receptor pathways and inhibit 5-alpha reductase

- beeswax candles - no soy or chemical derived candles.

- clean toothpaste - fluoride free, with ingredients such as hydroxyapatite, xylitol, coconut oil, baking soda.

- cast iron or stainless steel cookware - no non stick teflon pans which can leach PFAs

- red incandescent lights for nighttime - to reduce articial light at night to protect circadian rhythm

- natural cleaning agents - eg vinegar, baking soda, natural soap bars (like castille soap) to reduce chemical exposure

- shower filter - to reduce chlorine, heavy metals and other toxins built up in shower water

if you can, try and do as many of these swaps as you can - but if you can't for whatever reason, then don't worry at all. Neuroticism about health will always be unhealthier than the actual thing you're trying to avoid.

[Max @MPfounder]

Whilst I do believe that once you have a healthy metabolism, you won't be hungry from a conventional dieting perspective where your blood sugar crashes, leptin sensitivity is impaired, energy crashes and the lack of nutrients genuinely make your body starve etc

But even in a fully optimised metabolism the body will still defend its current level of body fat through the adipostat, where the hypothalamic system reads relative falling leptin as fat mass drops and responds by increasing hunger to drive you back toward your defended fat level, which happens regardless of metabolic health.
And i believe this is simply an evolutionarily learned thing, where your body will want to preserve the energy reserves that it has already built up.

Doing all the fundamentals, such as having an aligned circadian rhythm and saturating with nutrients, will then very much minimise the hunger that you do experience, and will quickly make your body realise that it is safe to lower the body's "fat mass set point" and essentially get leaner in a sustainable manner. But there will be minimal hunger at times which one would have to embrace.

Also, i believe that every culture had periods of genuine hunger built into their lives naturally - so I believe embracing hunger at times is evolutionarily consistent and therefore natural.

[Max @MPfounder]

Morph into superhuman summer shape

- Stop trying to get in shape and start becoming the man for whom being in shape is the inevitable biological output of how he lives. Biology and physique is always the byproduct of the mind + environment.

- embrace hunger at times

- resistance training 3x week with proper mechanical tension + adequate carbs for an anabolic hormonal environment (outdoor training if possible)

- place a lot emphasis on shoulder training to create an optimal golden shoulder to waist ratio of 1 : 1.618

- incorporate a lot of natural, innate movements for decompression and fascial integration

- myofascial release/mobility in all tight areas. Especially around the abdominal region for optimal digestion

- sunmaxx as much as you can tolerate

- sunrise wakings daily. Majority of hormones are circadian, so optimal light environment means optimal hormones such as testosterone, leptin, cortisol etc

- ground/ocean swims daily

- Eat only when genuinely hungry. Never from stress, boredom, convenience or habit

- nutrient saturation: Base diet around seafood, land meats, broths/stews, shellfish, raw dairy, fresh fruits, organs, rice, root vegetables

- Eat food during daylight hours

- zero doomscrolling/porn tolerance - will increase prolactin and massively decrease baseline dopamine and testosterone

- 10-15k steps on varied natural terrain

- fix gut integrity

- Genuine physical challenge weekly. Something with real stakes

- Human connection, purpose and craft

[Max @MPfounder]

Getting in shape for summer starts with eating foods that actually make you feel alive, look good and perform at your best.

[Max @MPfounder]

@RPJBrah the effects of healthmaxxing

[Max @MPfounder]

fresh anabolic juices

training and lifemaxxing

fresh raw seafood

dopamine firing from real life

sun in abundance

sleep maximised

life happens for me, not to me mindset

tutto passa

Nature always rewards you for living right. And summer is a great time to start stacking these rewards and maxxing your health.

[Max @MPfounder]

Most people think nutrition only affects how they feel internally - energy, mood, hormones, skin.

But nutrition also determines how cleanly you move, your physical presence, and the energy you project into every room you walk into by affecting the mechanical quality of every movement you make.

This is through Fascia - and nutrition has a direct impact on the integrity and function of it because fascia is composed primarily of collagen - so it requires glycine from bone broth and collagenous cuts, vitamin C, zinc, DHA, copper, magnesium and many others to synthesise and maintain correctly.

When fascia is restricted from bad nutrition and lack of movement - dehydrated, full of adhesions and locked in the postural patterns of chronic stress - the piezoelectric signalling and semi-conductive properties lose functioning, which can restrict the interstitial fluid transport that delivers hormones from their production site to their target receptors.

The consequences of neglecting all of this are visible and significant - compressed posture, erection problems, restricted movement, inflammation, reduced joint range, impaired organ motility and hormonal suppression (affecting male androgen hormones too).

But nutrition alone is not enough.

Infrared from sunlight charges the structured EZ water inside fascial tissue that gives it its semiconducting properties.
Natural, varied movement maintains fascial glide and hydration (isolated gym machines won't do this effectively), after which adequate sleep is then crucial for the overnight fascial repair and collagen synthesis.
Circadian alignment governs the cortisol rhythm which, when disrupted, degrades collagen and impairs the fibroblast activity that fascia needs for function.

Optimise your fascia for clean movement, superior energy and health.