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About Mike Roberto

Mike Roberto: The Researcher Who Founded PricePlow

n=1 Diet Researcher Scientist and Experimenter. Father. Husband. Entrepreneur. Water Animal. Heavy Metal Connoisseur. Patriot.

Mike Roberto 2019

Mike Roberto 2019

As the founder and CEO of PricePlow, Mike wears an extraordinary number of professional hats, but none is more important than father. PricePlow began as a deals website for nutritional supplements and vitamins, but has evolved into so much more as Mike's journey towards optimized healthspan opened the doors to several discoveries.

A "Biohacktivist" Armed with Data

Stealing a term coined by Shawn Wells, RDH, Mike is a "biohacktivist", stemming from the words "biohacker" and "activist". Through thousands of dollars spent on blood tests, specialized foods, and supplements, Mike has learned that conventional 'establishment' nutritional guidelines have failed him and his family. He has made it his mission to help bring awareness to those who seek a similar awakening.

Through PricePlow, Mike is backed up by a team of doctors, researchers, professional athletes, dieticians, and medical school students in an effort to bring source-cited truth to his followers. With their help, he utilizes certain dietary tools such as a low-carb diet with an emphasis on healthy meat to maintain optimal cognitive and physical health.

Mike celebrating after a successful paddle race

Mike combines his background in competitive sports, computer programming, and is known for his role as a biomedical scientist on television.[1] This experience combined, he has created one of the most helpful nutrition tools on the web -- with, of course, the help of his incredibly talented research and programming team.

Competitive Swimmer

In the sporting world, Mike comes from a swimming background where he began competing at the age of five. He played water polo at the Ohio State University and is now a competitive sand volleyball player and Master's swimmer, specializing in endurance ocean swims as well as freestyle butterfly sprints. Mike participates in US Masters Swim races in Central Texas. He is 6'0 and weighs in at 185lbs as of December 2018..

But it's not all water -- when he's not spending ridiculous hours developing PricePlow and poking holes at the latest diet research, he can be found training at home.

Family and home life: "Know Your Child"

At home, Mike is married to his wonderful wife Jill, and together they raise their delightfully precious daughter, who was born in the fall of 2017. Mike and Jill have taken an extremely active "know your child" stance, educating her as much as possible as early as possible.

Mike lives outside of Austin, TX near the Hill Country, and is always happy to jump in on a triathlon relay as your swimming leg.

You can see Mike regularly on the PricePlow YouTube Channel.

Follow Mike Roberto on Social Media

Mike spends nearly all of his social media time on the @PricePlow accounts, but there are some personal accounts too:

Muscle Elements 212: Don’t Just Burn Fat.. BOIL It!!

Muscle Elements 212

In the wide ranging spectrum of nutritional supplements, perhaps no other category is more well-known, or heavily scrutinized, than fat burners. You have the effective ones that use ingredients shown to aid fat loss, and then the “others” that end up being nothing more than an over-priced bottle of caffeine.

Muscle Elements is one of […]
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Oh Yeah! ONE Bar Peanut Butter Pie – Just Like Grandma’s!

Oh Yeah ONE Bar Peanut Butter Pie

We’ve been on a big protein bar binge lately here on the PricePlow blog. We’ve covered how much we love the Oh Yeah! ONE Bar, and our favorite is admittedly the Lemon Cake offering. However, we’d be remiss if we didn’t highlight another stellar option in the ONE Bar line… Peanut Butter Pie!

What […]
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Soylent LAWSUIT: High Levels of Lead and Cadmium Found?

Soylent Lawsuit

It’s been quite some time since we talked about Soylent, the awfully-named “meal replacement” created by silicon valley startup engineers, often sold to other silicon valley startup engineers.

We’ve been due for an update to that past, as a couple of our opinions have changed*, but this week’s latest topic is how Soylent’s creators […]
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Organic Valley Organic Fuel Wants to SAVE THE BROS

Organic Valley Organic Fuel

Back in February a certain “campaign” was launched that went viral all over the internet. Unfortunately, the supplement industry was BOOMING with tons of new products and reformulations, so we didn’t have time to cover it.

Now that things have settled down, just in time for them to get cranked up before the Olympia, we […]
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Magnum OPUS: Intra Workout pHuel with a New Flavor

Magnum OPUS

Magnum Nutraceuticals is unveiling a brand new flavor for their high-powered intra workout supplement, OPUS.

However, we wouldn’t waste your time or valuable blog space only talking about this exciting new flavor, which happens to be the delicious-sounding Orange Dreamsicle.

We’ve got a full in-depth look at what makes OPUS a unique product […]
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Delta XT by MAN Sports: An “Epic” Form of ZMA and More!

MAN Sports Delta XT

Ask any guy who works out hard how they are feeling. Too many will say that they’re tired, achy, and sore. It’s a simple fact of working out and putting your body through the daily grind of weight lifting.

However, what if there was a product to improve your rest, recovery, and muscle-building powers? Delta […]
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Instant Knockout Fat Burner: Is this Worth $59??

Instant Knockout Ingredients

When doing some research to keep our Best Fat Burner buyer’s guide up to date, we kept running into one product over and over: the Instant Knockout fat burner.

We’ve been running PricePlow (our supplement price comparison engine) long enough to know when something’s amiss, and this one was setting off a few of our […]
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Five Ways to Fix the Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards

Bodybuilding.com Supplement Awards

Before we begin, I’d like you to click here.

The above link goes to a popular thread on our Facebook feed. No doubt we egged the conversation on with the picture, but clearly, a nerve was struck with our small but well-educated Facebook followers.[1]

Right off the bat, I need to throw down a couple […]
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Rich Piana 5% Nutrition REAL CARBS Review: Legit Food-Based Carbs!

Real Food Reviews

I’ll admit it – sometimes I’m just lazy when it comes to food. There’s absolutely no good excuse for this when it comes to carbs — after all, bulk cooking brown rice or baking sweet potatoes is completely painless. Oats are even easier.

But sadly, there are times when I’m sitting here working and am […]
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Muscle Elements AmiNO Flow: THE Weight Lifter’s BCAA

AmiNo Flow Reviews

Everyone loves a great tasting and effective BCAAsupplement. Whether you’re looking to fill up before a big training session, refuel mid workout, or get through a tough dieting cycle, BCAA supplements provide a means to make sure you never enter the dreaded catabolic state.

Meanwhile, all weight lifters love a great pump! Yet until this […]
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