Mark MacDonald

Mark MacDonald is a nutritionist who has coached more than 40,000 people and still loses his words when he gets tired.

The two met at a party at Brinks TV, where MacDonald hosts a nutrition show and SALTYmf runs a player of the week segment. He walked into the McBastard Studios for the SALTYmf GOAT Podcast and led with the beard, telling Brad he had the best one in Georgia. Then he asked what position Brad had played, worked out they are built the same way, and explained body types using bicycles.

He played college and pro soccer, trained like an athlete and ate like one, then stopped playing and kept eating, and went from 190 pounds to 250. He cut the carbs, cut the calories, took his body fat to three percent and became a top fitness model in Los Angeles, living for a cheat day and spending three days after it in withdrawal. His girlfriend at the time, now his wife Abby, told him she could not take it any more. In 1997 he started teaching what he calls PFC3: protein, a fat and a carbohydrate every three hours, eaten in that order so blood sugar stays level. They launched the company in Venice Beach in 1999. He has taught it in 66 countries.

At seven he could not form words. Banana sounded right inside his own head and like nothing to anybody else, and only three children in his class understood him. The school wanted to hold him back. His parents fought to get him into second grade and put him in speech therapy for five years, six days a week, two hours a day. His father hung a banner reading one percent on his bedroom door and told him he was going to have days when he wanted to quit. He still has the speech challenge and it comes out when he is tired. In 2016 he sat on a bed in the ICU with his own son next to him and knew his father would die that night, after 25 years of a shut down stomach and pain medication.

A year before this recording he walked away from every spokesperson deal he had, a decision he calls gut wrenching, because his eight year old daughter Hope could not travel with him any more. His son Hunter married at 18 and moved into his own place. They gave up the house on July 1 and have been in a motorhome since, close to a hundred days with another hundred booked, towing a Jeep. He filmed his television show from a tent behind it.