People who do the Thrive-in-5 program consistently improve their diet and have measurably improved biometrics.
The science shows that if people improve their diets, they will live longer and have better health with fewer chronic diseases. Our course only lasts 5 weeks, and the aforementioned benefits can take decades to manifest. So how do we know this course is helping people? We objectively measure their biometrics.
Note: Biometric testing sets Evidence-Based Nutrition apart from other online nutrition and health programs. Most programs don’t know which biometrics are important or how to improve them with diet and lifestyle changes. In fact, almost every online nutrition program gives advice that is counterproductive to optimizing health metrics.
Each participant of the Thrive-in-5 Program is encouraged to do biometric testing before and after participating in our program. Recently a group of 34 athletes from a CrossFit gym in Utah started the Evidence-Based Nutrition course and shared their results with us. 27 of the 34 people completed the course and shared their before and after biometrics results. Here is a summary of the results:
LDL Cholesterol Results
LDL cholesterol is a major factor for developing Alzheimer’s disease; certain dementias; cardiovascular diseases, like heart attacks and stroke; as well as a long list of chronic diseases like macular degeneration and kidney disease.
52% of participants started out with clinically high LDL cholesterol. 57% of them were able to bring their cholesterol down to optimal levels.
96% of all participants reduced their LDL cholesterol.
The average change in cholesterol was a decrease of 18.5 mg/dL. For people who started out with high cholesterol, the average change was a decrease of 33 mg/dL.
These results are very significant. A similar outcome would be expected if everyone were placed on a cholesterol medication, like Lovastatin or Pravastatin. The great thing about using diet is that, unlike using a drug, there aren’t any negative side effects.
Blood Glucose Results
Blood glucose is a measurement used in diagnosing diabetes and prediabetes. High blood glucose is associated with many negative long-term health outcomes, including Type 2 diabetes. Diabetes is also a very expensive health condition. About 25% of the health care spend in the US is spent on people with diabetes.
5 participants started out with high glucose at prediabetic levels, which was 19% of the group. (38% of adults in the US have prediabetes)
At the end of the 5 weeks, everyone had normalized their blood glucose. In other words, everyone who was in the prediabetic category was able to reverse it in just 5 weeks!
Blood Pressure Results
High blood pressure is associated with so many negative health outcomes that it is indicative of a shorter life.
6 people started out with hypertensive blood pressure.
5 of the 6 brought their blood pressure out of hypertensive ranges. The remaining person saw a large decrease but was just shy of the decrease needed to come out of hypertension.
Weight Results
Weight and BMI are not always reliable health metrics. However, they are the health metric people are most familiar with, and they are the health metrics most people want to change.
Participants fell into the following BMI Categories: 4 (15%) obese, 12 (44%) overweight, 7 (26%) normal
People on average lost 4.2 pounds over the 5 weeks.
That is 0.84 pounds lost per week, which is faster the 0.34 pounds of weight loss per week resulting from a standard Ozempic dose
Notes on the participants: The participants ranged from inactive to daily exercisers, but skewed towards being frequently active. Participants ranged in ages from early 20’s to mid 60’s. Also, most people were actively trying to eat healthy before the program started. It is reasonable to assume that they started out healthier than the average population.
