Greg Glassman joins Chris Cooper’s Two-Brain Business Podcast to elaborate on the root causes of chronic disease, how academia has been corrupted to support the sugar industry, and how individuals can educate themselves to recognize broken science.
In the interview, Greg doubles down on his stance that sugar is the core contributor to chronic disease: cancer, obesity, heart disease, and more. He criticizes the scientific establishment and institutions (like the CDC, NIH) for refusing to label sugar as a root cause and identifies institutional corruption, poor scientific methodology, and corporate influence, as key drivers of the problem.
Greg also emphasizes that coaches and affiliates are uniquely positioned to transform health by addressing the root causes—sedentarism and sugar addiction—when institutions won’t. His focus now is on empowering independent thinkers and communities to bypass the broken systems and take control of their health and education.
Chris Cooper is the founder of Two-Brain Business, an organization that mentors gym owners on how to deliver top-tier services to their clients while running profitable, sustainable businesses. His guidance has helped thousands of trainers build and maintain successful gyms and lasting careers.
Greg Glassman founded CrossFit, a fitness revolution. Under Glassman’s leadership there were around 4 million CrossFitters, 300,000 CrossFit coaches and 15,000 physical locations, known as affiliates, where his prescribed methodology: constantly varied functional movements executed at high intensity, were practiced daily. CrossFit became known as the solution to the world’s greatest problem, chronic illness.
In 2002, he became the first person in exercise physiology to apply a scientific definition to the word fitness. As the son of an aerospace engineer, Glassman learned the principles of science at a young age. Through observations, experimentation, testing, and retesting, Glassman created a program that brought unprecedented results to his clients. He shared his methodology with the world through The CrossFit Journal and in-person seminars. Harvard Business School proclaimed that CrossFit was the world’s fastest growing business.
The business, which challenged conventional business models and financially upset the health and wellness industry, brought plenty of negative attention to Glassman and CrossFit. The company’s low carbohydrate nutrition prescription threatened the sugar industry and led to a series of lawsuits after a peer-reviewed journal falsified data claiming Glassman’s methodology caused injuries. A federal judge called it the biggest case of scientific misconduct and fraud she’d seen in all her years on the bench. After this experience Glassman developed a deep interest in the corruption of modern science for private interests. He launched CrossFit Health which mobilized 20,000 doctors who knew from their experiences with CrossFit that Glassman’s methodology prevented and cured chronic diseases. Glassman networked the doctors, exposed them to researchers in a variety of fields and encouraged them to work together and further support efforts to expose the problems in medicine and work together on preventative measures.
In 2020, Greg sold CrossFit and focused his attention on the broader issues in modern science. He’d learned from his experience in fitness that areas of study without definitions, without ways of measuring and replicating results are ripe for corruption and manipulation.
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