THE DURA PROTOCOL

The DURA Protocol arrises from the physiological inputs needed for optimal human health that arose over millenia of evolutionary pressures. With the onset of plant agriculture and the Industrial Revolution, our surroundings and inputs have rapidly changed, outpacing our ability to adapt and exposing us to countless evolutionary mismatches that throw our bodies out of a finely-tuned homeostasis. This has resulted in a population that struggles with obesity, frailty, and metabolic chaos.

The DURA Protocol looks back in time to mimic the inputs that shaped our physiology, and addresses every health impacter to address and minimize evolutionary mismatches. This protocol brings us into coherence with our varied environments to maximize the depth and rate of results. By leveraging the following health impacters to enable perfect synergy with your external environment and between your systems, robust health optimization becomes achievable a highly efficient rate.

NUTRITION
Eat to regenerate. To continuously regenerate, all humans need a nutrient-dense, species-appropriate diet. Properly balance vitamins, minerals, amino acids, fatty acids, and trace elements eliminate any deficiencies. We minimize inflammation and toxicity caused by processed foods, refined sugar, industrial fats, and chemical ingredients.

Eating is one of life’s greatest pleasures, so we design an eating plan that gets you the most nutrients in the ways you most enjoy, crushing wayward cravings and regulating appetite. The DURA Protocol defaults to nutrient-dense, in-season and local whole foods.

TRAINING
Maximize performance and minimize limitations. Your personal goals, whether they be strength gain, injury recovery, cardiovascular conditioning, flexibility, sports-specific, functionality, lean mass gain, or joint rehabilitation will require expert, customized programming in certain modalities for optimal results. We select the best type and amount of specific exercises to incur the adaptations you desire. We safely challenge our bodies to reach their current limit - and slightly beyond - then rest well and repeat.

CIRCADIAN BIOLOGY
We run on internal clocks. Our physiology is tightly tied to hormonal shifts produced by zeitgebers, or “time-givers,” Light exposure is the most powerful zeitgebers, but meal timing, sleep schedule, physical activity, work time, leisure time, and even feeling dew on the ground in the morning, or hearing crickets chirp at night, all play into creating metabolic homeostasis, vitality, and mental peace.

The body loves routine and predictability, and complete randomness in the timing of certain stimuli will challenge your systems in functioning properly. The DURA Protocol examines the timing of inputs to your body and your schedule, and your program includes the curation of your daily rhythms to regulate the hormonal cascades that define our state of being.

DETOXIFICATION
Clean it up. In an age of microplastics, heavy metals, pesticides, air pollution, and endocrine disruptors, totally avoiding environmental toxins in our modern environment is impossible. Detoxification techniques such as sauna, lymphatic drainage, sun exposure, breathwork, fasting, and deuterium depletion are programmed in.

SUPPLEMENTATION
Fill in the gaps. Soil, the foundation of the food web, is now severely depleted of nutrients from monocropping, overproduction, chemical fertilization, and other industrial farming practices. The plants grown in it and the animals they feed do not contain the same vitamins, minerals and trace elements that they had in the past. Further, we do not typically get the amount of sun exposure for which we evolved, and our water sources are tainted. Therefore, in many cases, supplementation is useful to fill the gaps, and certain health conditions will improve with targeted nutrient repletion from key supplements.

SLEEP HYGIENE
Optimize this third of your life. Important enough to distinguish from the larger category of circadian biology, establishing an excellent sleep practice is paramount. Sleep issues deprive us of countless critical functions and set a challenging stage for a day of healthy choices. Many people struggling to get good sleep can make minor changes to their habits and environment that will have a powerful effect, and improving sleep for my clients is one of my most valuable services.

CONSUMER PRODUCTS
Stay fresh without the downsides. Hand soap, facial cleansers, body wash, deodorant, moisturizers, toothpaste, mouthwash, shampoos, conditioners, fragrances, gels, makeup and cosmetics, laundry detergent and household cleaning products… they all combine to comprise one of the biggest inputs to our physiology today. Our skin is our biggest vital organ and can absorb topically applied chemicals into the bloodstream, affecting our health and hormones. The DURA Protocol seeks to eliminate harmful topical ingredients from our hygiene practices and replace them with intentionally vetted hygiene and household products.

QUANTUM BIOLOGY
We are electrical beings. This emerging scientific field is now highly relevant as new and more powerful technologies flood our environment and our understanding of mitochondrial function expands. Our tech focused society has led to dramatic shifts in our everyday environment. Non-native electromagnetic frequencies such as wifi and cellular radiation, artificial light at night, and blue-lit screen usage, combined with a lack of sunlight, out-of-season eating, physical separation from the planet’s native charge, climate control, and other mismatches compromise our mitochondrial and cellular function, leading to lowered immunity, fatigue and energy issues, disrupted sleep, digestive problems, cognitive impairment, mood and anxiety issues, and so on. It is crucial to be aware of the potential damage relating to our electrical nature, and the DURA Protocol seeks to mitigate these pervasive evolutionary mismatches.

STRESS MANAGEMENT
Mind your surroundings and simplify. Minimize. Learn to say “no.” Carefully curate the people and the things with which you surround yourself. You control your to-do list, not the other way around. Nurture constructive relationships, and forego abusive ones. Acute, intermittent stressors can be healthful (hormesis), but chronically elevated cortisol will break the body down and harm one’s outlook on the future. The DURA Protocol includes practical, effective stress mitigation techniques.

BREATHWORK
Breathing is 24/7/365. The way you breathe impacts your energy levels, state of mind, mood, concentration, stress levels, cardiovascular health, and even facial structure and development. Proper breathing technique, both at rest and during physical exertion, are examined in the DURA Protocol. Many of Andrew’s clients have experienced major improvements in quality of life simply by learning to breathe properly, and breathwork can be many of Andrew’s clients have experienced major improvements in quality of life simply by learning to breathe properly, and DURA can teach you specific breathwork techniques to create advantageous nervous system states whenever desired. 

HYDRATION
Spring water and minerals. Water is one of the most consistent inputs we give our body and therefore a huge health impacter, making it central to the DURA Protocol. Despite what you may hear, tap water is not harmless, and your Brita or fridge filter doesn’t cut it. While municipalities may rigorously filter out bacteria and viruses, most pharmaceuticals, microplastics, herbicides, and other harmful compounds are not yet considered. Harmful substances such as fluoride and chlorine are even intentionally added. Finally, treated water must then flow through miles of questionable piping before reaching your tap. The DURA Protocol involves conscious water sourcing, defaulting to spring water or remineralized reverse-osmosis water. And oh yeah - buy a shower filter.