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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:

Froot Loops & Frosted Flakes Whey Protein Plus! Six Star & Kellogg’s Collab

Six Star Whey Protein Plus Kellogg's Froot Loops & Frosted Flakes Collab

Longtime readers of PricePlow will no doubt be familiar with MuscleTech, an innovative and pioneering brand that has put novel ingredients like paraxanthine on the map with formulas like EuphoriQ.

MuscleTech’s parent company, Iovate, also has control over the reins at SIXSTAR, a brand that shoots for exposure and widespread adoption via […]
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ABE Pump: All Black Everything’s Stim-Free Pre-Workout with Nitrosigine

All Black Everything ABE Pump

All Black Everything (ABE) is the latest venture from national-level bodybuilder and world-class entrepreneur TJ Humphreys. TJ is a legend in the supplement world – besides having an amazing athletic career, he also had a successful run as CEO of ProSupps.

ABE is the American branch of a major English brand named Applied Nutrition[…]
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Taylor Knox #2 – Energy Drink Label Design | Episode #117

Taylor Knox (NutraMedia): Energy Drink Label Design on the PricePlow Podcast

Taylor Knox of NutraMedia is back for his second installment of the PricePlow Podcast. This time, we met early in the morning before SupplySide West 2023, where we had a great conversation about energy drink labels.

Taylor already explained their label design process and “brand therapy” on Episode #087, but this episode is […]
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The Glaxon Holy Trinity: Flight, Anomaly, and Alpha 365 for Muscle Gains

Glaxon Muscle Building Stack

Any “who’s who” list of major players in the supplement industry has to put Glaxon at or near the top. The intellectual firepower of the company’s science team, led by Chief Science Officer Joey Savage (see PricePlow Podcast #057 and #090), is why Glaxon is always equipped to push the industry envelope — […]
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Arms Race Nutrition Now Available at Gold’s Gym

Arms Race Nutrition Gold's Gym

If there’s one thing that Arms Race Nutrition is not, it’s average. The upshot sports nutrition brand, led by Doug Miller and Julian Smith, is not run-of-the-mill by any stretch of the imagination. They don’t rely on a catalog of copycat formulas nor do they use simple, ordinary flavors.

Now, ARN is taking itself […]
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Dan Lourenço #5: The Meteoric Rise of Ghost Energy | Episode #116

Dan Lourenço #5 on the PricePlow Podcast

Ghost Lifestyle founder and CEO Dan Lourenço is back for the fifth time on the PricePlow Podcast, in an episode that’s becoming an annual tradition – a pre SupplySide West show!

We last saw Dan in Episode #088, where he gave us Ghost’s Plans for 2023 and celebrated the 2022 PricePlow Brand of the […]
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Beyond Raw® LIT™ Charged: More Than Energy in a Can

Beyond Raw LIT Charged

On September 19, 2023, PricePlow captured a new product available at GNC.com: Beyond Raw® LIT™ Charged.[1] Knowing Beyond Raw’s innovative formulations, especially in the LIT™ series, we immediately investigated, found the product, and put it to the test.

We were not disappointed:

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Ghost CG Focus: Christian Guzman’s Stim-Free Nootropic Returns for 2023

Ghost CG Focus Stim-Free

GHOST and Christian Guzman, athlete entrepreneur of social media fame, have a long history of collaboration. To date, they’ve worked together four times to bring us some truly awesome flavors and formulas. Most recently in 2021, the duo released V4 of their series, which included three different supplements — one of which included Ghost Focus […]
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Inspired Nutraceuticals LGND: V3 of the Legendary Muscle Builder

Inspired Nutraceuticals LGND V3

If you’ve been following the supplement industry’s sports nutrition niche, you’ll know that we’ve seen the resurgence of some powerful plant extracts in the muscle building market. You’ll also know that Chris Waldrum sold Inspired Nutraceuticals, and the company is now run by Landon Suggs, who explained his vision in Episode #096 of […]
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Diana Morgan – What’s Up With Supps (Industry Social Events) | Episode #115

Diana Morgan: What's Up with Supps

Almost everyone working within the dietary supplement industry knows Diana Morgan, the VP of Global Regulatory and Government Affairs at Nutrabolt. But it’s not just all that C4 that makes Diana an industry rock star — it’s the social events she puts on as well!

In 2020, when industry trade shows abruptly shut […]
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