The short version
Health educator. Coach. Supplement formulator. Author. Combat veteran.
The Story
I started in fitness. Two combat deployments to Afghanistan, 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 hitting a wall. Supplements stacked on top of broken sleep. Peptides without dialed nutrition. Protocols copied from influencers who had different genetics, different lifestyles, different starting points. When we started pulling bloodwork, the real picture emerged. The foundations were off, and everything built on top of them was guesswork.
So I started teaching the biology. Not what to take, how your body works. Mechanisms, not protocols. Foundation first, optimization second. 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. Everything inside the community, courses on training, nutrition, hormones, and supplementation, is the real thing, not a funnel. If the free information leads you to want a team built around your specific data, coaching is there. If not, the community stays free and always will.
Coaching is $5,000 for six months and that number is on the website because hiding pricing 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. When the evidence is limited, that gets said directly. Getting it wrong is worse than not having an answer.
The Businesses
Iron Forge Brotherhood
Free health optimization community for men on Skool. Full course library, community feedback, and the coaching program for men lives here.
Visit The Iron Forge →Powerhouse Fitness
Same quality of education and community for women. Same courses, same system, different community.
Visit Powerhouse Fitness →Health Optimization Coaching
Labs, clinical protocols, weekly coaching calls, monthly clinical calls with a clinician. $5,000 for six months. Available through Iron Forge or Powerhouse.
Apex Medical Group
Physician-supervised hormone optimization. TRT, HRT, peptide protocols. Licensed doctors who coordinate directly with the coaching team and build from your labs.
Visit Apex Medical Group →Anvil Nutrition
Supplements dosed at what the research used. Full label, nothing proprietary, every ingredient verifiable.
Shop Anvil Nutrition →ZestyRat Research
Research peptides and compounds for the scientific community. Every batch independently tested for purity at 99 percent or higher. Transparent labeling, no proprietary blends. Research use only, 21 and over.
Visit ZestyRat Research →