#78: Anabology

"The only way you’re going to find the truth for your own health is by doing meticulous self-experimentation."

Dec 07, 2025

Anabology (@anabology) is a biotech founder and metabolic researcher best known for the honey diet — a protocol that turns the mainstream anti-sugar narrative on its head (more on that below). The first two products from his bioenergetic skincare line, Skin.Food, are out now.

#78: Anabology
Gemini/Taurus/Leo
Saint Louis, MO

What does health, or being healthy, mean to you?

Being healthy to me means having the energy to be the person you want to be, every day.

How would you describe your current lifestyle?

I work a lot and play a lot. I’m running a longevity biotech startup as my day job — we’re trying to solve aging, and that takes a lot of time. Outside of that, I’ll go on walks with my wife, go out with her or friends and banter all night, or play tennis.

Having healthy “play” is one of the most important things for health I believe, though I cater my day around health with other actions: I have circadian-appropriate lighting in my house (red at night, very bright white in the day), I use an infrared sauna (~$1k from Amazon), we walk to an organic grocer and shop for seed oil-free, regeneratively farmed foods, and we’ve built up a home gym over time.

I often do self-experimentation where I’ll eat extreme diets to see if the mainstream narratives are correct. For example, I ate a pound of honey a day (without other food until dinner) for a couple months at a point and lost weight while eating more calories, turning anti-sugar narratives on their head.

When not experimenting, I eat a conservative diet: milk, cheese, fruits, beef.

How do you start and end your days?

I used to fight my “chronotype,” as in, I used to try to force myself to wake up at 5am and go to bed at 9pm, but my body loves to stay up til midnight and wake up closer to 8, so I’ve now accepted that.

I start with a big iced decaf latte at home to get some calories in and start working pretty immediately at home before going to the lab with easy tasks —looking at emails, checking messages, getting a to-do list together. I think that mornings are a great time for flow state work, so shortly after, I walk to work and do the hardest tasks of my day for a few hours, then walk home and grab a big lunch.

My ideal night is working out or playing tennis, using the sauna, then reading on an e-ink device (e.g. Kindle, Boox, etc). I’ve found that the sauna is an excellent detoxing method — clears up my skin, stops dandruff, helps me feel much better the next day consistently. Ideally, I have no blue light for at least a couple hours before bed, but this isn’t always realistic.

I love the feeling of improving at skills and find that I can get this from video games, so sometimes I’ll squeeze in some games even if terrible for my circadian rhythm.

Can you recall a moment when you became more aware of your health, or your relationship to it changed?

I traveled to an internship near the end of college in a small town where the most convenient restaurant was KFC. I knew about biology / longevity from my academic background, but I did not have real diet opinions then. I thought ‘macros are macros, I eat chicken and potatoes at home, this should be the same thing,’ so I decided to eat KFC daily for a couple months. This made me feel worse than I ever felt — I legitimately think I was poisoned by their food. I gained 25 pounds and had migraines every day.

Growing up, I had chronic migraines, once or twice a week. In college, I suffered a brain injury and had migraines every day for a few months following that. When I ate KFC ~daily for a month, I felt worse than I did when I had a brain injury. My body was destroyed, aesthetically and health-wise.

I wanted to lose the weight after the internship ended; I got access to a scale / full-sized mirror again and “woke up,” so I tried carnivore and lost all the weight. The migraines reduced in frequency, but I was extremely weak from carnivore so I added carbs back and followed Paul Saladino’s animal-based ideas. Eventually, I discovered Ray Peat and his ideas helped me fully cure my migraines.

Do you have a spiritual practice?

I believe in God, but I find it hard to know much about the nature of God. I like the Parable of the Talents in the Bible and think about it often.

What’s your relationship to self-healing?

With my chronic migraines, doctors were worse than useless. As a child, I would go to school, get a migraine, and throw up from the constant nausea that I was in combined with the pain. After many episodes of this, I was taken to get a procedure where they put a camera in my stomach to see if anything was wrong — and they found it was red and terribly inflamed.

After seeing that, their diagnosis:

“Your stomach is inflamed due to eye strain. Go to the eye doctor again!”

Because I had migraines and wore contacts, they just dismissed the whole issue. It clearly wasn’t eye strain — I’d wake up with a migraine from sleep, it wasn’t correlated with looking at things in the day, and my eye prescription was correct. It was clearly the inflammatory, seed oil-filled foods I was fed!

“When I ate KFC ~daily for a month, I felt worse than I did when I had a brain injury…I legitimately think I was poisoned by their food.”

I eventually found out about sumatriptan and got it in college, which could immediately abort my migraines. It’s insane that I had to find out about it by myself and that doctors never gave this to me before; could have saved me a lot of pain.

Solving diet solved my issues. For me, a zero seed oil, high-carb, moderate-protein, low-fat diet works the best.

Do you work with any practitioners, texts, or modalities on a regular basis?

No, I work by myself.

When do you feel the most nourished?

I feel the most nourished after I eat a bunch of high-quality beef. Nothing seems to be able to make my body feel as good.

I feel the most “physically” nourished after working out and using the sauna.

How do you reset?

I try to take at least one day on the weekend to not work and just hang out with my wife and do what I’d do if I had no responsibilities. Lifting weights can also reset my mental state pretty quickly if I’m really in a rut.

Do you have a favorite meal?

I’ve spent a lot of time making really complex, beautiful meals, but I still often default to a pound of ground beef in a bowl with salt. Makes me feel great, tastes fine, and is so easy to make.

My favorite meals are often beef and pasta, such as beef stroganoff or bolognese.

My favorite drink is half coconut water and half tart cherry juice — didn’t taste great at first but I quickly became addicted.

What advice would you give to your younger self?

I’d say stop eating seed oils and lay off the caffeine as a kid. I think this would have solved most of my problems.

To the person reading this?

Everyone in health doesn’t know what they’re talking about. If people speak authoritatively, they’re usually not worth listening to. The only way you’re going to find the truth for your own health is by doing meticulous self-experimentation. I’d recommend finding out how to do self-experimentation in a safe, informative way (don’t change too many variables at once!).

What would you like to see or create more of in the world?

I want people to have energy and agency. I want people to wake up and think that they love life and feel like they’re able to be generative. Solving longevity solves this in my opinion.