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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:

Quest Protein Powder is Here… and the Price is Meh!

Quest Nutrition Protein

Hot off the heels of the new Quest Protein Chips, Quest Nutrition has announced yet another new product:

Quest Protein Powder!

The product is now out in stores for a far lower price than Quest’s website, so compare prices and signed up for price drop notifications below:

The ingredients are discussed below if you’d like […]
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MAN Sports ISO-Amino – Candy-Flavored BCAAs, Nothing Else!

MAN Sports ISO-Amino Review

Think fast:

Name one flavored BCAA supplement that comes in a powder, has only the BCAAs, and isn’t from a “bulk supplier” website.

Chances are, you have very little in mind. When we spoke to MAN Sports about it, we could hardly think of a few, and they’re rarely in stock!

So they decided to […]
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ISO-HD from BPI Sports – Pure Whey Isolate Preview

BPI Sports ISO-HD

Since BPI Sports was founded in late 2009, Be Powerful, Inc. has really grown and continued to turn heads of many in the bodybuilding and athletic communities. The affordable prices, creative products (like the Funnbar), and some of their gourmet flavors have brought attention to the company. The innovation that the company holds is also […]
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PEScience High Volume: The OG High-Nitrate Pump Supplement

PEScience High Volume

PEScience’s High Volume stimulant-free pre workout pump supplement has been around since 2014 – long before most brands had a stim-free pre workout… hell, long before most of today’s supplement brands even existed. With large nitrate doses, the 2014 release was well ahead of its time, but it’s also been upgraded a few times […]
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Gold Standard Pre-Workout is Here from Optimum Nutrition!

Gold Standard Pre Workout

Optimum Nutrition has recently confirmed and released one of the biggest things to hit the market all year:

The Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard Pre-Workout is here!

Could this finally be a pre workout supplement worthy of the ON Gold Standard?

The product is now out — we’re hoping to get some serious price drops — […]
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Post JYM: The PhD’s Answer To Post Workout Nutrition

Post JYM WARNING: Before reading this article, it is recommended that you first read the latest news and drama regarding this brand, under our article titled the Jim Stoppani Scandal.

What does your post workout nutrition look like?

The topic of the “anabolic window” or “post workout window” causes much debate.

Some people believe that it’s […]
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Genomyx Failed Supplement Lab Test Reveals… Ingredient Not Inside!!

Genomyx AMP Citrate

While updating our AMP Citrate / DMBA article to include a new research study, we noticed one glaring issue from the study:

Genomyx AMP Citrate contained no AMP Citrate!

You can see this below in a screenshot from the study[1]:

Only in the supplement industry do you fail at breaking the law because someone else […]
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BPI Best Protein – Isolate First Whey Protein, But Not The Best

BPI Best Protein

This year, BPI Sports had a successful launch of their first protein powder, Whey-HD. Now it looks like they’ll be coming out with another protein product sometime in the coming months, simply named Best Protein.

This is not to be confused with our popular Best Protein Powder page and Top 10 List, […]
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Red Bull’s Class Action Lawsuit in 2014: $10 Because It Didn’t Give This Guy Wings

Red Bull Lawsuit

Apparently, Red Bull does not give you wings.

Yesterday, a class action lawsuit, Benjamin Careathers v. Red Bull North America, Inc, was settled over false advertising claims.

What happened?

This lawsuit isn’t so much about giving you “wings” as it is about misleading the consumer regarding the energy content. Red Bull consistently made claims […]
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NO-Xplode New Formula Review (2014) – BSN Falls Short

Where is the new NO-Xplode heading in 2014? Meh.

That’s about all we can say after going through more servings of BSN’s new NO-Xplode formula, released in mid-2014.

You can see our initial review from YouTube below:

We fizzled at the end of that workout, and things really only got worse with subsequent workouts.

The long story short is that there’s just too […]
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