About Mark: Heart Attack Survivor, Metabolic Health Researcher

Mark is the founder of MetabolicNews.net — and the last person you would have expected to become a metabolic health writer.

On the evening of October 2, 2019, he was at ballroom dance practice with his wife when he felt a strange heaviness in his arms. No chest pain. Nothing dramatic. Just heaviness. It was a heart attack.

The angiogram revealed an 80% blockage in his left anterior descending artery — known as the “widow-maker” — and a 95% blockage in a diagonal branch. Two stents saved his life. The cardiologist treating him that night told him plainly: “If you had tried to sleep it off, you would never have woken up.”

He walked out of hospital eight days later weighing 230 pounds, blood pressure at 153/104, carrying a bag of medications and a fear he had never felt before.

He also walked out knowing absolutely nothing about metabolic health.

What followed was six years of relentless self-education. Late nights reading medical research papers. Podcasts on every walk. Health blogs during lunch breaks. Not out of curiosity — out of necessity. He had been hours from dying in his sleep, and generic advice was no longer enough.

He taught himself the science of insulin resistance, intermittent fasting, autophagy, and cellular energy. Then he applied it with the same methodical mindset he brought to everything — tracking blood glucose and ketones at precise intervals, building his own autophagy validation system, measuring results with data rather than hope.

The transformation showed up in his bloodwork. 27 pounds lost. HbA1c down to 35. Cholesterol 3.3. Triglycerides 1.0. Blood pressure 130/78. His doctor, reviewing his ongoing results, has been so impressed with his progress that reducing some of his medications is now being considered.

He is not a medical professional. He is a logistics manager who got desperate enough to figure it out on his own, and thorough enough to do it properly.

He started MetabolicNews.net because he knows exactly what it feels like to be metabolically unwell without realising it — and to discover, too late, how serious that is. His mission is to share everything he learned, backed by science and validated by six years of living it, so others don’t have to learn the hard way.