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Work With Anthony Directly: The Invitation You’ve Been Waiting For…
A lot of people in this community are doing the work training, learning, cleaning up nutrition, experimenting with protocols yet still feeling like they’re not fully accessing the performance, clarity, energy, or momentum they know is inside them. It’s not because they’re missing discipline. It’s because they’re missing precision. Your physiology is speaking all the time. Recovery patterns, inflammation, redox shifts, sleep architecture, mitochondrial output these are signals. When you know how to interpret them, progress becomes inevitable. That’s where I come in. For the first time, I’m opening up clear paths for those who want deeper support and a guided transformation inside the Castore Core ecosystem. I take on only a handful of new clients each month to maintain the level of detail, personalization, and precision this work deserves. Option 1 Introductory Consults For the person seeking clarity, direction, or troubleshooting without a long-term commitment. These sessions do not include ongoing email support. Introductory Special $500 1-hour consult 30-minute follow-up Written notes + actionable plan This is the cleanest on-ramp to breakthrough momentum. Single Consult $350 1-hour targeted consult Strategic direction or troubleshooting Direct. Focused. High impact. Perfect if you want clarity right now but don’t need ongoing support. Option 2 Castore Core: Evolution Tier $600/month or $1500 paid upfront (3-month commitment) For those who want guided progress, accountability, structure, and steady forward movement without overwhelm. You get: 1-hour Zoom check-in each month Unlimited email support with a 48-hour turnaround Protocol refinements as your training, stress, and recovery evolve Evolution is where you take action and I help you sharpen the edge every step of the way. Not for: Those needing high-frequency access or rapid protocol iteration. Option 3 — Castore Core: Ascension Tier $1400/month or $3600 paid upfront (3-month commitment)
Work With Anthony Directly: The Invitation You’ve Been Waiting For…
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Understanding Redox: The Last Article You Will Ever Need To Read And The Keys To The Kingdom
Redox is one of those concepts that everyone has heard of but very few people truly grasp, and yet almost everything in human physiology depends on it. For trainers and clinicians, redox is the hidden language that tells you why someone can train hard one day and crash the next, why fat loss stalls even with perfect macros, why motivation drops without a psychological trigger, why inflammation rises mysteriously, or why protocols that used to work suddenly stop producing results. Redox isn’t a supplement, a lab marker, or a buzzword. It is the most fundamental process life uses to create energy, repair damage, and adapt to stress. When redox flows, people adapt. When it gets stuck, people stagnate. Understanding redox at a deep level gives you the ability to see beneath symptoms, beneath lab markers, beneath surface-level physiology, and down into the actual physics and molecular dynamics that determine whether a person is moving toward resilience or toward dysfunction. This redox deep dive will walk through what redox is, why it matters, how it gets stuck, what “stuck” actually means at the molecular level, and how different stressors push the system into different dysfunctional patterns. Throughout this, I’ll use analogies and imagery that make the invisible world of electrons and membranes feel intuitive and concrete, allowing you to visualize exactly what is happening inside cells when energy is being made—or when the system jams. You’ll see how mitochondrial membranes behave like electrical waterfalls, how electrons move like crowds of people flowing through hallways, how redox imbalance can freeze a system the way traffic jams choke off a city, and how trainers and clinicians unintentionally worsen stuck redox by focusing on quantity of activity instead of the phase of the system. Redox is short for reduction and oxidation the transfer of electrons. To understand why this matters, imagine every cell in your body as a tiny city. Energy isn’t created in one burst; it’s created by passing electrons down a series of steps, like handing a baton from one runner to the next. Reduction is when a molecule gains electrons, oxidation is when it loses electrons. In biology, electrons fall down an energetic staircase inside mitochondria called the electron transport chain. As electrons move, they power tiny pumps that push protons across a membrane, building what can be imagined as a “pressure gradient” or electrical tension. This tension the mitochondrial membrane potential is like the charged battery that lets ATP synthase spin and generate ATP. Think of it like water flowing through a hydroelectric dam: the higher the water pressure behind the dam, the more electricity you can generate. If the water level drops too low, the turbine stops. If the dam wall gets blocked and pressure rises too high, the system becomes dangerous. Mitochondria work exactly the same way. Redox is the management of electron flow across the mitochondrial inner membrane. Everything hinges on whether electrons are moving, whether they have somewhere to go, whether the membrane potential is balanced, and whether the cell can match energy demand with supply.
The Real Reason Athletes Break Down (It’s Not Volume or Intensity)
Cellular respiration is the most misunderstood process in biology, not because it is complicated, but because it has been taught backwards.Most people learn about it as a series of pathways, diagrams, and chemical reactions that live in textbooks. Glycolysis. Krebs cycle. Electron transport chain. ATP. Oxygen. These are presented as isolated facts to remember rather than a living system to understand. Cellular respiration is not an academic concept. It is the process that decides whether a cell functions, adapts, inflames, degenerates, or dies. It is the reason training works or stops working. It is the reason recovery feels easy or impossible. It is the reason cognition sharpens or fades. It is the reason disease appears not as an enemy, but as a strategy. At its core, cellular respiration is the process by which a cell converts fuel into usable energy while keeping itself intact. That’s it. Everything else is detail. Every cell in your body, from a muscle fiber to a neuron in your hippocampus, has the same fundamental problem to solve every second of every day: how do I turn fuel and oxygen into energy without damaging myself in the process? If the cell can solve that problem cleanly, the organism thrives. If it cannot, the cell shifts priorities. Growth is delayed. Repair is prioritized. Inflammation increases. Sensitivity to stress rises. Output drops. This is not failure. This is intelligence.To understand why cellular respiration sits at the root of nearly every breakdown in the body, we need to rebuild it from first principles, not pathways.Energy is not optional. Cells do not “like” energy. They require it to maintain structure, order, and communication. Without energy, proteins misfold, membranes leak, signals distort, and systems lose coordination. Life is not sustained by structure alone. It is sustained by continuous energy flow. Energy can be dangerous.The same process that allows a cell to extract energy from food also generates reactive byproducts. Think of energy production like fire. Controlled fire cooks food and keeps you warm. Uncontrolled fire burns the house down. Cellular respiration is the art of controlled combustion. Inside the cell, mitochondria serve as the primary site of this controlled energy production. They are often called the “powerhouses of the cell,” but this metaphor is misleading. A better analogy is that mitochondria are regulators, not generators. They are more like governors on an engine than the engine itself. Mitochondria decide how fast fuel is burned, which fuel is preferred, how much energy is produced, and whether energy production remains clean or becomes damaging. They also decide when the cell should slow down, speed up, repair itself, or initiate cell death.
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Is cycling on and off peptides recommended?
Hi, I'm considering using Dr Seeds protocols from his book. Specifically the Anabolism protocol. This prescribes the following doses and compounds: CJC-1295 with No DAC 100 mcg 3 times per day 3 hours apart Ipamorelin 100 mcg 3 times per day 3 hours apart BPC-157 post workout 400 mcg If I followed this protocol how many weeks would I use it for? Then how many weeks should I be off peptides? I've heard other recommendations of using the peptides for 8 weeks then being off peptides for 8 weeks is this correct? Thanks for any help or insight you can provide
Is cycling on and off peptides recommended?
Why Death By 5’s Might Be The Most Efficent Training System You’ve Never Tried
Most lifters chase numbers. A heavier squat, an extra plate on the press, another rep on the pull-up bar. But chasing numbers alone doesn’t guarantee growth. True progress comes from mastery from owning every inch of the rep, from creating conditions where the muscle has no choice but to adapt. That’s where Death by 5’s enters the picture. At its core, Death by 5’s is brutally simple: a single set broken into three phases that hit all the major triggers of hypertrophy in sequence. In just one extended effort, you layer mechanical tension, stretch-mediated signaling, and metabolic stress the three pillars of muscle growth. Think of it as condensing a week’s worth of stimuli into a single block of time. The Set Structure A Death by 5’s set unfolds like this: 1. Five Paused Reps with Slow Eccentrics – a 5-second pause at mid-range, then an explosive concentric, followed by a 5-second eccentric. This primes the muscle with mechanical tension, the most reliable driver of hypertrophy. 2. Five One-and-a-Half Reps – working the stretched position with partials and controlled eccentrics. Here you tap into stretch-mediated hypertrophy, loading titin and amplifying signaling pathways that only activate under elongation stress. 3. Rep-Out to Failure – normal tempo reps until you can’t move the weight. This phase maximizes metabolic stress, flooding the muscle with metabolites and ensuring full motor unit recruitment. By the end, every fiber has been called into play, every growth signal has been fired, and the muscle has been pushed through all three hypertrophy mechanisms in one sequence. Why It Works What makes Death by 5’s so powerful is its time efficiency. Traditional programs might spread tension work, stretch emphasis, and pump training across multiple sets or even multiple sessions. Death by 5’s compresses all of it into one structured attack. It’s not just about saving time; it’s about stacking stimuli so the muscle can’t hide, adapt, or coast through the set.
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