Maybe you’ve made peace with the belly. Maybe the mirror doesn’t bother you anymore. You’ve got more important things to worry about than six-pack abs. Fair enough. But here’s something that might change the equation… 81% of Alzheimer’s patients also have type 2 diabetes. That’s not a typo. And it’s not a coincidence. Some researchers have started calling Alzheimer’s “Type 3 diabetes” because the connection is so strong. The mechanism? Insulin resistance doesn’t stop at your waistline… it...
4 months ago • 2 min read
There's a competition happening in health and fitness circles. Who can be the cleanest? The strictest? The most extreme? Zero alcohol. Zero caffeine. Zero carbs. Zero plants. Carnivore-only. Vegan-only. Extended fasting. Training twice a day. It's performance art masquerading as health optimization. Here's what nobody seems to want to acknowledge: sustainability beats purity, every single time. Look, I'm not here to argue that alcohol is a necessary component of health. It's not. But the idea...
4 months ago • 2 min read
Today I'm sharing client's feedback about working with me 1-on-1 (after hesitating to pull the trigger for 2+ years!): "Regardless of what you know or think you know, working with PD Mangan is life altering for the better.I’m a lifelong casual athlete, now in my 60s, rarely in ‘gym shape’ but usually close enough; but until working with PD, often had that unfortunate last 10 - 15lbs of middle aged regret. I spoke with him 2 years prior to finally signing on, the gap being, “well, I pretty...
5 months ago • 2 min read
If you want to lose 20, 30, 50 or even 100 pounds in 2026… the last thing you should do is double down on willpower. I know that sounds backwards. But hear me out. As you look back on what didn’t work in 2025, try asking yourself some different questions: If I wasn’t allowed to rely on willpower, what would I think about instead? If I couldn’t sacrifice all my free time, how would I approach this differently? If I refused to do another bootcamp and needed something I could actually sustain...
5 months ago • 2 min read
If you spend any kind of time on social media... Or on YouTube for that matter... You will find stories of people who got great weight loss and body recomposition results with a variety of methods... From carnivore to raw vegan, and everything in between. I don't have a positive view on veganism, since I don't think it's good for human health, and so I don't work with vegans. That's the only nutrition disqualifier I use when I screen applicants for my 1-on-1 coaching practic. I've worked with...
8 months ago • 3 min read
There are many ways to produce fat loss, build muscle and improve metabolic health. In fact, I'd go as far as saying almost ALL the ways you see people talk about online can be effective. And so when evaluating different methods, asking “does it work?” isn't a very good question. It probably does "work"! So what? To use some extreme examples to illustrate the point, you could produce lots of fat loss with: 1) This "one simple trick" of... not eating food for a week, a month or... if you need...
8 months ago • 2 min read
Look at this graph carefully. It's from one of the most important studies ever done on fitness and mortality. "Higher levels of physical fitness appear to delay all-cause mortality primarily due to lowered rates of cardiovascular disease and cancer." What you're seeing is crystal clear: People with high cardiorespiratory fitness have 70% lower death rates compared to those with low fitness. But here's what nobody's telling you: This is about how FIT you are... not how many hours you spend...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Here's something your doctor probably never told you about getting lean and healthy... It's all about your capillaries – the tiny blood vessels that act like microscopic delivery routes throughout your body. Think of capillaries as your body's supply chain network. Just as Amazon needs an extensive network of delivery routes to get packages to every door, your body needs dense networks of capillaries to deliver oxygen and nutrients to your muscles. Here's the problem: As you age or remain...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Let me share an insight about heart disease prevention that most doctors miss entirely. While everyone talks about getting more omega-3s from fish oil... They’re missing the bigger picture: The real problem is excess omega-6 fats flooding our food supply. Here’s what the research shows: Heart disease rates track almost perfectly with tissue levels of omega-6 fats The traditional omega-6 to omega-3 ratio was around 1:1 In modern diets, this ratio has exploded to 20:1 or even higher Simply...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
