A deep dive into the underlying cellular cause of chronic fatigue, burnout, and brain fog, with a framework for how you can restore your cognitive function, alertness, and have an abundance of energy.
2-Times Best-Selling Author
Eat for Energy is the best nutritional wisdom that my team and I have uncovered, systematized, and refined over the last decade with thousands of our clients. In this book, I’ll do what I do with all my clients and in all my programs: cut through the pseudoscience to illuminate the real causes of fatigue and how you can rewire your body (and mitochondria) to produce youthful levels of energy once again.
Get your body out of defense mode and into a state of optimal performance to live at the peak of your energy, brain function, mood, and health.
Ari Whitten, functional health practitioner and creator of The Energy Blueprint program, takes you on a deep dive of our cellular energy centers, illuminating the clear nutritional methodologies and specific foods, supplements, and compounds you can use to:
A deep dive into the underlying cellular cause of chronic fatigue, burnout, and brain fog, with a framework for restoring cognitive function, alertness, and an abundance of energy.
Chronic fatigue, burnout, brain fog—however you want to call it, we as a society suffer from a constant feeling of being drained. From our families to ourselves to our work to our quality of life, a deficit of energy affects all that we hold dear.
There is a solution. But it doesn’t lie in our preconceived notions around caffeine intake, adrenal fatigue, or overhauling our lifestyle in a time-consuming and unrealistic way. And it isn’t a problem with our mind, competency, or motivation. Instead, the core underlying cause lies in our cells, more specifically, in our mitochondrial deficiency. When our cellular energy centers of mitochondria are suffering, our liver cells can’t detoxify us, our heart cells can’t replenish and invigorate us, and our gut cells can’t process our food.
The Energy Blueprint is a clear framework for reclaiming your energy, brainpower, and well-being created by Ari Whitten, CES, PES, and functional health practitioner. With simple, actionable tweaks to nutrition, sleep, and your daily habits, you will be able to get your mitochondria out of defense mode and into a state of optimal performance.
Ari Whitten, CES, PES, is a functional health practitioner and the creator of the Energy Blueprint system for overcoming fatigue and increasing energy levels.
He is an energy and fatigue specialist who focuses on taking an evidence-based approach to energy enhancement. He is also a nutrition and lifestyle expert with a Bachelor of Science from San Diego State University in Kinesiology, and has recently completed coursework for his PhD in Clinical Psychology – an education which rounds out all aspects – nutrition, fitness, and psychology – of his approach to optimal health.
For the last five years, he’s been working with several world-renowned scientists and physicians to develop the most comprehensive evidence-based program in the world on the science of overcoming fatigue and increasing energy levels — The Energy Blueprint.
Many years ago, I was a healthy, active, energetic 24-year-old in a brief stint of living and working on a communal farm in Israel when I contracted the Epstein-Barr virus and came down with a severe case of mononucleosis (also known as “glandular fever” or “the kissing disease”).
I had no idea that I would spend nearly a year trying to recover my health, well-being, and energy. I went from loving my full-throttle life to being incapable of getting out of bed. My throat became so sore, swollen, and filled with pus that I couldn’t eat anything but soup, and I rapidly lost more than 30 pounds of muscle mass. I lost all endurance and stamina to the point that small activities winded me and lost all my resilience such that I needed to lie in bed for 24 hours after even mild physical activity.
It was this moment that I realized: virtually no one in the medical establishment had really solved the human energy puzzle. This revelation changed the course of my life. After that point, I became utterly obsessed with making sense of the science of human energy.
For years, I wanted to do nothing more than spend all day, every day digging into the scientific literature and piecing together an actual understanding—a true scientific framework—of the real factors that regulate and control human energy levels, why people get fatigued, and, most importantly, how to fix it. Over the last decade, a considerable body of research has been conducted revealing the real cause of fatigue: mitochondrial dysfunction.
When our mitochondria become dysfunctional or, more accurately, when they turn down energy production (for reasons we’ll discuss in depth), then they cannot produce the energy that our cells need to do their jobs. Eat for Energy is designed to help you better understand the real science behind your fatigue; the role your mitochondria play in producing and enhancing your energy; how your body works to regulate your energy levels; and how you can use nutritional strategies, targeted foods, and powerful supplements and compounds to supercharge your mitochondria, get rid of your fatigue, and experience all-day energy, every day.
This book is required reading for anyone who wants a scientific roadmap out of lethargy and into full vitality. Ari Whitten has been my go-to reference for the true science of the human body for years—there’s no one I trust more. No matter what kind of eating approach you currently follow, this book will give you dozens of new nutrition strategies to fully optimize your energy. Enjoy!
New York Times best-selling author of Bright Line Eating
Study Ari’s book to become “nutrilligent,” i.e., nutritionally intelligent. It’s for everyone who wants to learn and practice the what, when, where, why, and how to nourish oneself for vibrant life energy, and is not just for those with chronic fatigue syndrome. Mitochondria, cell danger response, chronobiology, microbiota, and more — this book is a distillation of essential and applied nutrilligence.
Founding Pioneer, Health Optimization Medicine and Practice (HOMe/HOPe)
European Double Board Certified in Anti-Aging Medicine and Nutritional Medicine
“Healthy mitochondria are essential to our vitality, energy, and well-being. Ari has put together an invaluable science-backed resource on achieving optimal health at a cellular level! Eat-For-Energy offers insightful, and comprehensive blueprints that will empower your powerhouse. If you’re sick and tired of feeling sick and tired, this is the book you’ve been waiting for.”
Syndicated TV, and Radio Show Host, International
award-winning, #1 bestselling author of Food Sanity.
Ari Whitten has done a masterful job of explaining the mechanisms of energy production and how you can learn to optimize your body’s potential. His book is well-referenced with scientific publications and he does a wonderful job of explaining complex science into lifestyle approaches that can make a big difference in your health. This is a must-read book for anyone suffering from fatigue or for anyone that just wants to optimize their performance.
Harvard Medical School Researcher
There are few feelings better than having effortless energy to power through a day of activities. Many of my patients express frustration at running on an low energy tank. Eat for Energy provides an understanding and a plan of action to reboot and regain that energetic life. The sections on foods and supplements for energy are invaluable and I will use this book in my preventive cardiology practice.
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Your days of low energy and fatigue are gone forever!
If you’re ready to have the energy of a child again and want the most cutting edge methods to do make it a reality…Eat for Energy will literally have you bouncing off the walls
Read it. Apply it and reignite the energy stores within you!
NY Times Best-selling author
CEO of NeuroGym
With everyone so focused on fasting, keto or other restrictive diets, Ari restores sanity back to us all with Eat for Energy. In these informative pages, you’ll learn why, how, what and when to eat. Eating is simple – when done right. And Ari makes that happen for you.
Best-selling author of Dirty Genes and Founder of SeekingHealth.com
Optimizing the production of cellular energy is a fundamental strategy to optimize your health and prevent most diseases. Ari does an excellent job in Eat for Energy in providing a comprehensive, easy to understand and implement yet simple strategy that should help most people who implement this life-changing program.
Founder Mercola.com
This is the book I’ve been waiting for for years! I’ve suffered for years with brain fog, lethargy, and used to overeat or over consume caffeine because I lacked adequate energy to keep up with my daily demands. This book has provided me with the blueprint to change that. Most nutrition books are either way too generalized, or way too in the weeds. This book beautifully fills a gap by providing people that don’t have PhDs or time to spend their days reading pubmed with real, cutting-edge science, highly valuable and actionable information and a framework to effectively master nourishing their body. Ari’s ability to synthesize, explain and engage the reader is exceptional. In a world that is overwhelming us with information, this book distills down to the most up to date and useful scientific data and creates a fully actionable blueprint for people that want to look and feel 20 years younger. This will be my most gifted book to all of my family, friends and clients for years to come. As someone looking to optimize my health and longevity, as well as the way I look and the way that I feel, looking at nutrition through the lens of eating to support mitochondrial function is a game changer. Ari takes this topic to a level far beyond what has been done to this point and he does it in a way that is engaging for non science nerds. I get asked all the time what books I recommend on nutrition for health and longevity. This book is now at the top of that list.
Former Mr. Canada, IFBB Pro Bodybuilder, and Founder of Muscle Intelligence and MI40
In Eat for Energy, Ari Whitten shows us how to activate our own internal energy powerhouses, the mitochondria, to lose fatigue and gain clarity and energy. Ari’s approach is innovative, compassionate, and most of all effective. Whether you’re struggling with chronic fatigue, or simply want a bit more energy, I highly recommend Eat for Energy.
NYT Bestselling Author of Hashimoto’s Protocol
If you’ve been finding yourself feeling hormonal, exhausted, and find the frequency with which you can’t remember why you walked into a room alarming – this is your book. Ari breaks down complex physiology so you can understand the impact of hormone imbalances, poor body composition, insulin resistance, and chronic inflammation on your body. Most importantly – he provides a systematic roadmap to burn fat, build muscle, and how to supplement strategically. Nothing hypey and no pseudoscientific claims. This is really a compilation of decades of science, synthesized together in a coherent scientific framework of human energy optimization.
Bestselling Author of The Betty Body
Ari Whitten is the master of all things having to do with energy. If you have low energy buy this book. Even if you don’t have low energy and you are over 40 you likely have acclimated to lower levels of energy. In his comprehensive book: Eat For Energy. Ari walks you through what causes low energy, and how to eat and live to increase energy. What was particularly helpful were the action steps at the end of many of the chapters.
Wish you had more energy? Nutrition is one of the five key foundations for turbocharging your energy production and mitochondrial function. Here is a science-based approach that will guide you expertly on how to do this!
Fibromyalgia specialist and author of the best-selling From Fatigued to Fantastic!
As a board certified physician, this book is a must get! Packed with practical evidence-based advice, this book not only helps you understand what is going on in your body but empowers the reader to take what they learned to supercharge their life! What an amazing resource for so many that are suffering! Finally, a book filled answers you can rely on!
Best Selling Author of The Holistic Rx,
Adam’s Healing Adventures and
The Holistic Rx for Kids
Creator, The Holistic Kids’ Show Podcast
With more than 50% of our nation’s children currently diagnosed with at least one chronic condition, and that number projected to increase to greater than 80% by 2025, the time to wake up and understand the root cause of childhood chronic disease is NOW. As an internationally-recognized holistic pediatrician, pediatric functional medicine expert and mom to 2 thriving kids, my mission in life is to help children everywhere thrive – physically, emotionally, and mentally. While Ari Whitten’s “Eat for Energy” is not targeted specifically for children, the tools that parents and practitioners will learn through his decades of research and expertise will help children live to their optimal health and wellness potential. Why? Because the root cause of most chronic childhood disease lies in exactly what Ari so clearly describes in his book – mitochondrial dysfunction. Learning how to optimize your child’s mitochondrial function through Ari’s proven approach will lay the foundations to both prevent and reverse chronic disease no matter what stage of health your child is currently in. So whether it’s you, or your child, suffering from a chronic condition, or just not being your 100% absolutely best – then “Eat for Energy” is the place to start. “Eat for Energy gives parents the tools they need to take action today and raise their kids for a lifetime of physical and mental health.
Integrative Pediatrician and Pediatric Functional Medicine Expert
Founder, Healthy Kids Happy Kids