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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:

American Metabolix Keto Meal: A Truly Ketogenic Meal Replacement

American Metabolix Keto Meal

If you’ve been paying any attention to trends in health and nutrition these past few years, it’s virtually certain that you’ve heard of the ketogenic diet.

The idea behind ketogenic dieting, also known as “keto”, is that by restricting your carbohydrate intake, you can normalize your insulin and glucose blood levels[1,2] – a basic […]
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Ghost HYDRATION: Electrolytes Done Right – With Potassium!

Ghost Hydration

In early 2021, Ghost Lifestyle announced a major piece of their athletic puzzle: Ghost Hydration. The announcement came in their seventh season of their hit Building the Brand YouTube series.

Originally introduced in “Our First Greens Collab” (S7:E4), founder and CEO Dan Lourenco and his team covered several major items, including the […]
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STORM Pre-Workout Adds Wicked Wild Berry & Gnarly Grape Flavors

We’re back from the 2022 Arnold Sports Festival, and one of the industry’s hottest brands — STORM — has just released two new flavors of the popular STORM Pre-Workout supplement.

Early in the year during PricePlow’s 2021 Supplement Industry Awards, we named STORM as Brand to Watch for 2022, and since doing so, they’re […]
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Glaxon NAD+ Synergy: Healthy Energy, Healthy Aging

Glaxon NAD+ Synergy

In the quest for extending human life while also increasing its quality, researchers have determined that the most effective approach is to target fundamental metabolic processes.

Research into various chronic “diseases of civilization,” like diabetes, depression and Alzheimer’s, are converging on cellular energy insufficiency as a unifying theory of degenerative illness. For this […]
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Merica Energy BLUE VALOR Flavor Drops in Time for Summer

Merica Energy Blue Valor

A lot of trends in the supplement industry are being driven by the growing consumer realization that supplements aren’t just for getting jacked. Smart supplementation is key for people who want to achieve great things —

And for red-blooded Americans with the classic American can-do attitude, there’s no duo of companies better positioned to […]
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CORE PUDD’N: The Perfect PROTEIN SLUDGE is Here!

CORE PUDD'N

Throughout his years of bodybuilding and elite-tier fitness, CORE Nutritionals founder and CEO Doug Miller has kept a few things extremely consistent: Crushing It with high-volume training, a whole-food based MRP (CORE MRP, his first supplement), staying true to his Core Values… and finishing each day with a bowl of high-protein sludge.[…]
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5% Nutrition Core KSM-66 Ashwagandha: Gain by Dropping Cortisol

5% Nutrition Core KSM-66 Ashwagandha

Rich Piana, the world’s renaissance man of the 2010s, wasn’t in KILL IT mode all the time. While we saw many of his high-energy, pump-fueled highlights (such as in the Bigger by the Day series), the founder of 5% Nutrition also loved to relax and enjoy himself.

The only issue is that he often […]
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BEAM Whey Fruity Cereal Has Some “Tricks” Up Its Sleeve

BEAM Whey Fruity Cereal

It’s been far too long since we’ve covered BEAM on the PricePlow Blog. The brand run by Michael Yewdell strives to help you Be Amazing. You can learn about BEAM’s launch from Episode #030 of the PricePlow Podcast with Michael, who battled insane amounts of adversity to make it where he is today.

Shortly […]
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Black Magic Supply ECTO PLASM: All about Pumps and Purple Rain

Black Magic Supply Ecto Plasm

If you don’t know what we’re talking about, then it’s time you check out Ecto Plasm, Black Magic Supply’s incredible stimulant-free pre-workout supplement that plays numerous nitric oxide / pump angles. Aside from a Fruit Punch flavor, it also has a unique Purple Rain flavor that has become a fan (and PricePlow) favorite.

Ecto[…]
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Performax Labs MassMax: Natural Anabolic & Hunger Booster

Performax Labs MassMax

We’re usually pretty excited when Performax Labs releases a new product, as they have some of the most innovative and aggressive formulations on the market. In Performax’s 2021 rebrand, they upgraded the mood-boosting pre-workout formula HyperMax Extreme (3D), one of our all-time favorite fully-dosed high-stim pre-workouts. This is in addition to their nutrient-partitioning formula SlinMax[…]
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