At the 2026 Unbreakable Health Retreat in Miami, Emily Kaplan, CEO and co-founder of MetFix and The Broken Science Initiative, presents the chronic disease epidemic not as the result of bad luck or failed willpower, but of decades of flawed science, institutional corruption, and incentives that reward disease management over health. Through examples ranging from the sugar industry’s influence on nutrition policy to buried research, publication bias, irreproducible studies, and misleading pharmaceutical marketing, she shows how many of the assumptions underlying modern healthcare have produced a population that is sicker than ever despite record spending.
Conditions such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, fatty liver disease, and many mental health disorders are different manifestations of the same underlying problem: mitochondrial dysfunction. Excess sugar and refined carbohydrates, seed oils, and chronic inactivity damage the body’s energy-producing systems, while a healthcare model built around specialties and billing codes focuses on managing symptoms rather than addressing root causes. The answer, she argues, is not waiting for institutions to reform themselves but empowering individuals through education. By improving metabolic literacy and restoring mitochondrial health through nutrition, exercise, and community support, MetFix affiliates are demonstrating that chronic disease can be prevented, improved, and often reversed.
Emily Kaplan is an expert in strategy and communication. As the CEO and Co-founder of The Broken Science Initiative, she is building a platform to educate people on the systemic failings in science, education and health while offering an alternative approach based in probability theory. As the principal at The Kleio Group, Emily works with high profile companies, celebrities, entrepreneurs, politicians and scientists who face strategic communication challenges or find themselves in a crisis.
Emily’s work as a business leader includes time spent working with large Arab conglomerates in the GCC region of the Middle East looking to partner with American interests. Emily acquired Prep Cosmetics, expanded it to become a national chain and revolutionized the way women bought beauty products by offering novel online shopping experiences, which are now the industry standard. She was a partner in a dating app that used the new technology of geolocation to help interested parties meet up in real life. Emily developed Prime Fitness and Nutrition, a women’s health concept that focused on the fitness and diet needs of women as they age, with three physical locations. She was the host of the Empowered Health Podcast, and wrote a column in Boston Magazine by the same name, both of which focused on sex differences in medicine.
Emily is an award winning journalist who has written for national newspapers, magazines and produced for ABC News’ 20/20, Primetime and Good Morning America. She is the author of two business advice books published by HarperCollins Leadership. Emily studied Advanced Negotiation and Mediation at Harvard Law School. She has a Masters of Science from Northwestern University and received a BA in history and psychology from Smith College.
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