Jamie was a really interesting case as he is probably one of the fittest participants (when measured by conventional standards) we’ve seen, just look at his Vo2 Max. Young and training for a Marathon. He did have a few things working against him however. Ulcerative Colitis which not only caused massive digestive issues and systemic inflammation resulting in high body fat and visceral fat. It also affected his posture giving him pelvic tilt which in turn affected his running gait.

His running also led him to be low on muscle mass and upper body strength and, we thought, probably contributed to his gut issues. So while he looked a picture of health his scores told us something different. This all combined to give him his high initial Physical Age.

We realised straight away we would get the biggest bang for our buck going straight at his colitis and so targeted it with a carefully modulated diet and supplementation plan. We didn’t imagine we’d get rid of it as his intense training was simply creating too much inflammation to do that but we were hopeful we could at least control it long enough to get him through to race day after which we could really start lowering his inflammation and bringing his muscle mass up.