The Broken Science Initiative

Ruck & Learn @ GORUCK HQ
2025-10-24 15:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | GORUCK HQ Ruck & Learn, 390 16th Street S, Jacksonville Beach, FL, 32250, United States
Join us for a ruck along the beach, followed by a MetFix talk and Q&A. Afterwards, we’ll gather for drinks and a tour of GORUCK HQ.
This is a FREE event for anyone — whether you’re a gym owner, ruck club leader, trainer, or simply curious about how fitness, education, and service can strengthen your community.

3pm-4pm: Ruck on the Beach4pm-6pm: MetFix Talk / QA6pm: Happy Hour & Hangout

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MetFix Seminar @ MetFix JAX
2025-10-25 - 2025-10-26 | MetFix JAX, 2593 Mayport Rd STE 103-105, Jacksonville, FL, 32233
Join us at MetFix JAX in Jacksonville, FL for a MetFix Seminar.
This seminar is designed to equip coaches with the knowledge and tools to reverse chronic disease and optimize human performance. MetFix is a metabolic solution—rooted in the science of energy regulation and hormonal balance, and built to drive real change from the inside out.
As a coach, your role goes far beyond workouts. You are an engineer of human health, and understanding the ‘why’ behind fitness—metabolism, bioenergetics, and the endocrine system—is critical to delivering real, lasting results for your community.
Your clients trust you to guide them toward better health, better performance, and a higher quality of life. This seminar will provide the scientific foundation and practical tools to do exactly that.
If you’re looking for the next step in education so you can make an immediate impact in your community, this course is for you.

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Ultra-Processed Food & Depression with David Wiss | Live Webinar
2025-10-27 14:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us for a live webinar with David Wiss— nutrition researcher and clinician David Wiss, MS, RDN, PhD(c).
This webinar explores the growing body of evidence linking ultra-processed food consumption with mental health outcomes—particularly depression. David will unpack the biological, psychological, and social mechanisms that connect diet quality to emotional well-being, and discuss practical steps toward nutritional and behavioral interventions that promote health and longevity.

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Josh Hunnicutt New Species MetFix | The Daley Fix
2025-10-30 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us for an episode of The Daley Fix with Josh Hunnicutt. We’ll explore his approach to leadership, how he’s helping redefine what fitness can look like in his community, and his perspective on where the future of coaching and fitness is headed.
This series is built for coaches, owners, and leaders who want to expand their impact in their community. We’re talking with coaches who are redefining what it means to serve outside the standard class model.

Journal Club with Bob Kaplan and Peter Shaw – A Primer on the ROS Hypothesis of Obesity Pt 2
2025-10-31 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us for a Journal Club webinar with Bob Kaplan and Peter Shaw as they will continue to delve into the ROS Hypothesis of Obesity.
Rather than viewing all reactive oxygen species (ROS) as a negative responses, this article proposes that ROS aren’t just harmful byproducts of metabolism, but critical signals that regulate insulin sensitivity. We’ll explore how insulin actually relies on ROS to amplify glucose and fat uptake, how excess ROS feed back to limit further nutrient entry, and how different dietary fats shape this signaling.
The full article can be found here.
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MetFix Seminar @ Barbell Saves Project
2025-11-08 - 2025-11-09 | Barbell Saves Project, 2806 W Cactus Rd, Phoenix, AZ, 85029, United States
Join us at Barbell Saves Project in Phoenix, AZ for a MetFix Seminar.
This seminar is designed to equip coaches with the knowledge and tools to reverse chronic disease and optimize human performance. MetFix is a metabolic solution—rooted in the science of energy regulation and hormonal balance, and built to drive real change from the inside out.
As a coach, your role goes far beyond workouts. You are an engineer of human health, and understanding the ‘why’ behind fitness—metabolism, bioenergetics, and the endocrine system—is critical to delivering real, lasting results for your community.
Your clients trust you to guide them toward better health, better performance, and a higher quality of life. This seminar will provide the scientific foundation and practical tools to do exactly that.
If you’re looking for the next step in education so you can make an immediate impact in your community, this course is for you.

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Veterans Day with Nick Sellers | The Daley Fix
2025-11-11 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
This Veterans Day, we’re joined by MetFix Affiliate Owner and U.S. Army veteran Nick Sellers for a conversation about service, leadership, and purpose.
This series is built for coaches, owners, and leaders who want to expand their impact in their community. We’re talking with coaches who are redefining what it means to serve outside the standard class model.

'Black box’ safety warning to be removed from hormone therapy for menopause | Trust Issues Ep 2
2025-11-12 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Online
For 23 years, doctors were legally required to terrify women about the one treatment that could have changed their lives.
This week, the FDA finally admitted they got it catastrophically wrong. The black box warning on hormone replacement therapy? Gone.
Fifty million women were denied relief from menopause symptoms—hot flashes, brain fog, bone loss, sleep disruption—because of a study that’s been debunked for years.
Even the FDA’s own commissioner called it “one of the greatest screw-ups in modern medicine.”
And while they’re patting themselves on the back, Procter & Gamble is selling a $40 menopause test kit that lawsuits say is built on fraudulent science. Bad studies. Corporate profit. Women’s suffering.
It’s the same story on repeat. They finally told the truth about HRT after 23 years. How many more decades before they admit what they’re lying about now?

The NFL & Brain Injury Research with Chris Nowinski | Trust Issues Ep 3
2025-11-19 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Online
What happens when billion-dollar sports collide with inconvenient science?
The NFL’s concussion crisis is the case study. League-funded researchers downplayed CTE, discredited whistleblowers, and stalled accountability even as the evidence mounted, a clear example of how powerful institutions distort science when the truth threatens their interests.
Hosted by Karen Thomson, Dr. Mary Dan Eades, and Mia Kotalik (@helloitsmia.tech) — with special guest Chris Nowinski, American neuroscientist, author, and retired professional wrestler.

Ultra-processed Foods: Are they responsible for obesity & chronic disease? | Journal Club with Pete Shaw & Bob Kaplan
2025-11-20 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Bob and Pete will dive into the world of ultra-processed foods. Those interested in health are hard pressed to disagree with the fact that ultra-processed foods are bad for you. Has it become dogma to blame these foods for our health issues? Some questions need to be answered:
What defines an ultra-processed food?
Are they the villain behind the chronic disease and obesity epidemics?
Is it the processing or is it an ingredient?
Is there more to the story?
Featured papers:

Monteiro et al. (2019): Ultra-processed foods: what they are and how to identify them
David S. Ludwig (2025): Ultraprocessed Food on an Ultrafast Track

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Inside the Mind of Emily Kaplan | The Daley Fix
2025-11-21 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us as we go inside the mind of Emily Kaplan—co-founder of the Broken Science Initiative. In this conversation, Emily will share how journalism and other careers brought her into the world of ‘broken science,’ health, and fitness.
This series is built for coaches, owners, and leaders who want to expand their impact in their community. We’re talking with coaches who are redefining what it means to serve outside the standard class model.

MetFix Spark: The Plug-and-Play Program Built for Affiliates | The Daley Fix
2025-11-25 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join Pete Shaw and Monique Waters as we introduce MetFix Spark! Spark is a 4-week turnkey course that gives you everything you need to run an engaging, ready-to-go MetFix metabolic health program that helps members jumpstart or reignite their nutrition, understand metabolic health, and build lasting habits.
This series is built for coaches, owners, and leaders who want to expand their impact in their community. We’re talking with coaches who are redefining what it means to serve outside the standard class model.

Trust Issues: Episode 4 with Gary Taubes, Bob Kaplan and Dr. Mary Dan Eades - Gym Rats, Fat Mice and Broken Science
2025-11-25 16:30 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Online
From the bodybuilder paradox – why those who put on muscle easy are so easily deluded about those who put on fat – to the infamous ob/ob (obese) mouse that reshaped our understanding of fat and hunger, this discussion uncovers how scientific dogma and misplaced faith in “calories in, calories out” derailed metabolic science. Together, the panel explores how leptin, fuel partitioning, and flawed interpretation have kept us stuck in a broken model of health, and what it takes to rewrite it.

Behavior Change Inside Your Affiliate with Meghan Russell | The Daley Fix
2025-12-02 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Meghan Russell (MetFix Academy Staff) joins us to discuss how to implement behavior change inside your affiliate.
This series is built for coaches, owners, and leaders who want to expand their impact in their community. We’re talking with coaches who are redefining what it means to serve outside the standard class model.

Sugar, Carbs & the Gateway Drug: What Addiction Medicine Missed — and What Bitten Jonsson’s Work Reveals
2025-12-04 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Food addiction is one of the most misunderstood — and most politically inconvenient — conditions in modern medicine. Yet the data are clear: sugar and refined carbohydrates activate the same neurobiological pathways as alcohol and other addictive substances, driving withdrawal, compulsive use, metabolic instability, and long-term damage to the brain’s reward system.
In this 90-minute BSI Medical Society webinar, world-renowned addiction specialist Bitten Jonsson, Leg.SSK, brings together four decades of clinical experience, pioneering research, and her groundbreaking work in biochemical repair and SUGAR-mapping — a diagnostic tool she developed to identify and classify sugar addiction with precision.
But Bitten’s story also exposes a deeper structural problem in global healthcare:
she built Sweden’s first food addiction treatment center, achieved a verified 76% recovery rate, received 375+ medical referrals, and delivered outcomes traditional medicine couldn’t match. Her center was so effective that, rather than expanding access, the regional health authority shut it down.
Not because it failed — but because it succeeded.
Too many patients wanted help, and the system wouldn’t fund treatment that worked.
This webinar will connect the dots the public health system refuses to confront:
You will learn:

The neurobiological mechanisms that make sugar a true gateway drug
How early-life sugar exposure reshapes neural pathways and primes lifelong dependency
The science behind biochemical repair and why metabolic instability drives addictive behavior
Why the addiction field still lacks a unified definition of food addiction
How current psychiatric and diet-industry models systematically misdiagnose and mistreat sugar dependence
The political and economic forces that prevent effective treatment from scaling
How sugar addiction intersects with alcoholism, smoking, binge behaviors, and process addictions
Why ketogenic nutrition is often essential for stabilizing cravings and withdrawal
What clinicians must understand to treat food addiction as a chronic brain disease, not a moral or behavioral failing

Plus:
A live demonstration of Bitten’s SUGAR mapping diagnostic tool, followed by an extended Q&A.

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MetFix Seminar @ MetFix London Bridge
2025-12-06 - 2025-12-07 | MetFix London Bridge, arch 57 Ewer St., London, England, SE1 0NR, United Kingdom
Join us at MetFix London Bridge in London, England for a MetFix Seminar.
This seminar is designed to equip coaches with the knowledge and tools to reverse chronic disease and optimize human performance. MetFix is a metabolic solution—rooted in the science of energy regulation and hormonal balance, and built to drive real change from the inside out.
As a coach, your role goes far beyond workouts. You are an engineer of human health, and understanding the ‘why’ behind fitness—metabolism, bioenergetics, and the endocrine system—is critical to delivering real, lasting results for your community.
Your clients trust you to guide them toward better health, better performance, and a higher quality of life. This seminar will provide the scientific foundation and practical tools to do exactly that.
If you’re looking for the next step in education so you can make an immediate impact in your community, this course is for you.

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Erin Richter - Leading with Heart | The Daley Fix
2025-12-09 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join Dale for a conversation with Erin Richter, the driving force behind MetFix Bowling Green. Erin has built a community where members feel seen, supported, and pushed to grow. We’ll talk about her journey, the setbacks she’s fought through, and the passion she brings to helping people change their lives.
This series is built for coaches, owners, and leaders who want to expand their impact in their community. We’re talking with coaches who are redefining what it means to serve outside the standard class model.

Ruck & Learn London
2025-12-12 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/London) | MetFix London Bridge, arch 57 Ewer St., London, England, SE1 0NR, United Kingdom
Join us for a Ruck & Learn in London, followed by a MetFix talk and Q&A.
This is a FREE event for anyone — whether you’re a gym owner, ruck club leader, trainer, or simply curious about how fitness, education, and service can strengthen your community.

@ 18:00 Local time
Meeting Point:
arch 57 Ewer St., London, England, SE1 0NR

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MetFix Seminar @ MetFix London Bridge
2025-12-13 - 2025-12-14 | MetFix London Bridge, arch 57 Ewer St., London, England, SE1 0NR, United Kingdom
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN SOLD OUT – PLEASE CHECK THE CALENDAR FOR OTHER DATES

Join us at MetFix London Bridge in London, England for a MetFix Seminar.
This seminar is designed to equip coaches with the knowledge and tools to reverse chronic disease and optimize human performance. MetFix is a metabolic solution—rooted in the science of energy regulation and hormonal balance, and built to drive real change from the inside out.
As a coach, your role goes far beyond workouts. You are an engineer of human health, and understanding the ‘why’ behind fitness—metabolism, bioenergetics, and the endocrine system—is critical to delivering real, lasting results for your community.
Your clients trust you to guide them toward better health, better performance, and a higher quality of life. This seminar will provide the scientific foundation and practical tools to do exactly that.
If you’re looking for the next step in education so you can make an immediate impact in your community, this course is for you.

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What It Takes to Run an Affiliate - Melissa Leavitt | The Daley Fix
2025-12-16 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Join Dale for a real conversation with Melissa Leavitt, the heartbeat of MetFix Ormond. Melissa has built a special gym where people feel at home and stay accountable. We’ll dig into her story, the challenges she’s faced, and the purpose that drives her as a coach, mother, and community leader.
This series is built for coaches, owners, and leaders who want to expand their impact in their community. We’re talking with coaches who are redefining what it means to serve outside the standard class model.

Weighing the benefits and risks of testosterone replacement therapy | Journal Club with Pete Shaw & Bob Kaplan
2025-12-18 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Does testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) increase the risk of prostate cancer and cardiovascular events?
Featured papers:

Cardiovascular Safety of Testosterone-Replacement Therapy
Prostate Safety Events During Testosterone Replacement Therapy in Men With Hypogonadism
Effect of Testosterone on Progression From Prediabetes to Diabetes in Men With Hypogonadism

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Geist Health Club Metfix | Medical Society Member Showcase
2026-01-01 18:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us for a live webinar with Geist Health Club — for a comprehensive health-optimization program designed to elevated member well0being through evidence-based fitness, coaching and holistic health tracking.
Sarah Filson MD is a board-certified Obstetrician Gynecologist dedicated to empowering women through personalized wellness strategies at DesignHer Wellness MD. With over 20 years of experience in women’s health, Dr. Filson integrates medical expertise with a deep understanding of the interconnectedness of mind and body. Trained at Indiana University School of Medicine, she focuses on nutrition, movement, and medical management with a special focus on PCOS, perimenopausal and postmenopausal health to guide her patients towards optimal well-being and vitality. Dr. Filson is a member of the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM), Menopause Society, and the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH), and is board-certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG). She is member of Broken Science Medical Society. DesignHer Wellness MD has partnered with MetFix Lupos of Geist Health Club to promote health excellence in a multi-faceted approach.
Chris Impagliazzo is a Owner/Trainer/Coach Chris “Pags” has dedicated his life to physical activity and helping others in different capacities. Growing up in Minnesota, his journey started with hockey and lacrosse through grade school. With college offers for both hockey and lacrosse, he chose to play semi-professional hockey instead, playing in the Première B league in Italy in 2005-06. After his hockey career ended, he became a professionally endorsed Flowboarder, traveling the US on the Flow Tour for 3 years straight. When that career ended, he joined the military and attended US Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue Swimmer School in 2014. Upon retiring from the service in 2021, he immediately opened Coach Pags Fitness and concurrently CrossFit Lupos.
His training/coaching/conditioning career started in 2009, getting his NASM CPT, PES, & CES, also NFPT CPT. In 2010, he was personal training full time and was the Strength & Conditioning coach for Bloomington Kennedy High school hockey and Lacrosse teams until joining the service in 2012.
His CrossFit career started in 2020, getting his L1 then six months later acquiring his L2. He now holds his CrossFit Level 3 Trainer Certification. Few CrossFit coaches reach this level of education in the industry.
Courtney Vanderpoel has a decade of Physical Therapy experience under her belt, Courtney is able to seamlessly blend her clinical expertise with her passion for CrossFit. She believes that healthcare workers should lead from the front, setting a good example to what a healthy lifestyle can look like. Courtney is dedicated to empowering those around her achieve their fitness goals and showing people they are capable of more than they think. She has a competitive background in soccer, swimming, skiing and most recently CrossFit. Courtney has been involved in the CrossFit community since 2020 and was hooked immediately. To her, the gym is her second home. When she is not helping others, you’ll find Courtney in the gym practicing her skills to crush her own goals. Courtney has her Doctorate of Physical Therapy, CrossFit Level 1 Coach, USAW Level 1 Coach, and The Barbell Rehab Method Certification

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Year In Review / Look at 2026 | The Daley Fix
2026-01-06 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Online
We’ll take a look back at 2025 and discuss what’s upcoming in 2026.
This series is built for coaches, owners, and leaders who want to expand their impact in their community. We’re talking with coaches who are redefining what it means to serve outside the standard class model.

Implementing MetFix on the Gym Floor with Matt Sherburne | The Daley Fix
2026-01-13 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
We sit down with Matt Sherburne to unpack the implementation of MetFix inside a gym- where affiliates get stuck, what helps moves the needle, and how to bridge the gap between understanding the method and coaching it well.
This series is built for coaches, owners, and leaders who want to expand their impact in their community. We’re talking with coaches who are redefining what it means to serve outside the standard class model.

Reaching Those Who Need It Most | The Daley Fix
2026-01-20 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Listen in as Matt and Debbie from MetFix Crave talk about their successful program Expanding Horizons and how they use fitness and nutrition to serve those in juvenile probation.
This series is built for coaches, owners, and leaders who want to expand their impact in their community. We’re talking with coaches who are redefining what it means to serve outside the standard class model.

MetFix Seminar @ Persistence Athletics MetFix in Seattle, WA
2026-01-31 - 2026-02-01 | Persistence Athletics MetFix, 3025, 1st Ave, Seattle, WA, 98121, United States
Join us at Persistence Athletics MetFix in Seattle, WA for a MetFix Seminar.
This seminar is designed to equip coaches with the knowledge and tools to reverse chronic disease and optimize human performance. MetFix is a metabolic solution—rooted in the science of energy regulation and hormonal balance, and built to drive real change from the inside out.
As a coach, your role goes far beyond workouts. You are an engineer of human health, and understanding the ‘why’ behind fitness—metabolism, bioenergetics, and the endocrine system—is critical to delivering real, lasting results for your community.
Your clients trust you to guide them toward better health, better performance, and a higher quality of life. This seminar will provide the scientific foundation and practical tools to do exactly that.
If you’re looking for the next step in education so you can make an immediate impact in your community, this course is for you.

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Is mitochondrial dysfunction the root cause of hereditary cancer syndromes? | Journal Club with Pete Shaw & Bob Kaplan
2026-02-05 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Hot off the press, Bob Kaplan’s new paper explores the metabolic nature of hereditary cancer syndromes. His paper makes a case for the metabolic theory of cancer as it relates to the precise mutations many cite as proof for the somatic mutation theory.
Featured paper:

Hereditary cancer syndromes linked to oxidative phosphorylation insufficiency

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MetFix Port Clinton Power Couple | The Daley Fix
2026-02-17 11:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Online
Listen in as Brett and Lexis talk about what it’s like running a MetFix gym as a married couple. You’ll hear about all the incredible programs they run out of their affiliate for their local community.
This series is built for coaches, owners, and leaders who want to expand their impact in their community. We’re talking with coaches who are redefining what it means to serve outside the standard class model.

Portsmouth MetFix Coaches Meet-up + Q&A | Pete Shaw & Karl Steadman
2026-02-20 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Local coaches (and everyone else) are invited to a LIVE call hosted by Pete to chat about the MetFix Foundations Course and hype it up before the upcoming seminar.

The Doctor Is In | Live Webinar
2026-02-24 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Join us for a live Monthly Clinical Q&A with Dr. Mary Dan Eade
Exclusive to MetFix Affiliates & Medical Society Members
Each month, join Dr. Mary Dan Eades for an exclusive live call designed to support practitioners and affiliates guiding patients through low-carb and therapeutic nutrition strategies.

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