The short version
Health educator · Coach · Supplement formulator · Author · Combat veteran
The Story
I started in fitness after two combat deployments to Afghanistan and a period I'm not proud of, and eventually I found my way back through training and through building something that helped other people. That became a community focused on getting stronger, more disciplined, and holding each other accountable.
The longer I coached, the more I saw the same pattern, people doing everything they read online and still hitting a wall, supplements stacked on top of broken sleep, peptides without dialed nutrition, and protocols copied from influencers who had different genetics and different starting points. When we started pulling bloodwork, the picture became clear, because the foundations were off and everything built on top of them was guesswork.
So I started teaching the biology itself, how your body actually works, which is where the whole idea of mechanisms over protocols came from, and the foundation always comes before the optimization. I partnered with physicians, built a clinical review system, and connected the education, the coaching, the labs, and the supplements into one Enterprise where everything reinforces the same principle: understand your biology, then build from it.
The education stays free because the information should be accessible to everyone. If the free content leads you to want a team built around your specific data, coaching is there. If not, the community has everything you need to learn and apply this on your own.
The Philosophy
The education is free because that's how trust actually works, and everything inside the community, the courses on training, nutrition, hormones, and supplementation, is the full education with nothing held back. If the free information leads you to want a team built around your specific data, coaching is there, and if not, the community stays free and always will.
Coaching is $2,500 for twelve weeks, and the price is on the website because hiding it behind a phone call isn't how this operates. You know the cost and what's included before spending your time.
Every recommendation traces back to published research or individual bloodwork, and when the evidence is limited, that gets said directly, because getting it wrong is worse than not having an answer.
The Businesses
Iron Forge Brotherhood
The free health optimization community for men on Skool, with the full course library, feedback from the community, and the coaching program for men.
Visit The Iron Forge →Powerhouse Fitness
The same education and coaching system built for women, with the same courses in a community of their own.
Visit Powerhouse Fitness →Health Optimization Coaching
Labs, clinical protocols, weekly coaching calls, and monthly clinical calls with a clinician, available through Iron Forge or Powerhouse at $2,500 for twelve weeks.
Apex Medical Group
Physician-supervised hormone optimization, where licensed doctors manage TRT, HRT, and peptide protocols while coordinating directly with the coaching team and building from your labs.
Visit Apex Medical Group →Anvil Nutrition
Supplements dosed at what the research used, with a full label and nothing proprietary so every ingredient is verifiable.
Shop Anvil Nutrition →ZestyRat Research
Research peptides and compounds for the scientific community, with every batch independently tested for purity at 99 percent or higher and labeling that shows exactly what's inside. Research use only, 21 and over.
Visit ZestyRat Research →