James LaValle is an internationally recognized clinical pharmacist, board-certified clinical nutritionist, and author with more than 40 years of experience in natural products, lifestyle medicine, and drug/nutrient depletion. He founded Metabolic Code Enterprises, a cloud-based platform that uses symptom surveys, lab markers, biometrics, and wearable data to identify the metabolic roadblocks keeping patients from optimal health.

LaValle serves as Clinical Co-Chair of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine and Chair of the International Peptide Society. He has authored more than 20 books, including the bestselling Cracking the Metabolic Code, and was named National Clinician of the Year by the Natural Products Association.

LaValle introduces his "metabolic code" — a systems-based framework that maps symptoms, labs, and wearable data onto five interconnected patterns of metabolic health — and traces how he used it to help NFL veteran Jimmy Graham rebuild his health and endurance for a record-breaking Arctic Ocean row.

"So all these signals from every organ, all your tissues, all your cells, they're working in symphony, they're working in harmony to prevent you from moving down the process of disease. That's your metabolism."