What we believe
For nearly all of human history people went without food for stretches, ate the whole animal, woke with the sun and did hard physical work. Those habits weren't chosen for health. They were just life. We take them as a starting hypothesis, not a rule: each one gets tested against what physiology and the research say, and against what happens to real people who live that way for months.
We also believe in personal responsibility. No program can do the fasting, the walking or the early nights for you. What a good coach can do is make the work clear, make the progress visible, and stay with you on the days it's hard. A life with something difficult in it, chosen on purpose, tends to be a life with more meaning in it. We build the whole curriculum around that.
Proven first in Parkinson's
We chose the hardest case first. If the method holds up for people living with Parkinson's, with all the fatigue, stiffness and low motivation that come with it, it can hold up elsewhere. The Academy is the authority on cumulative autophagy and the metabolic method above any one condition. Parkinson's is just where we proved it.
We work alongside medicine, not against it. Our practitioners coach. Medication decisions stay with a person's prescriber.
The proving ground: Genesis Protocol
Genesis Protocol is an online program of metabolic protocols and live classes for people living with Parkinson's in the US. It's where the Academy's method was built: members log fasting hours, ketone strips, sleep and training every week, and the Autophagy Ledger started there. Genesis is the Academy's first licensee.
Founding President
Lars Konge founded Genesis Protocol and leads the Academy. He coaches the live Genesis classes himself and wrote the Autophagy Ledger.
Autophagy Practitioner, Genesis Protocol · Member, SMHP
Lars posts the live class schedule, member updates and podcast episodes here: genesis4pd.com, Facebook, Instagram (@genesispdprogram), YouTube and X (@LarsWilliam1980).
Founding Fellows
Four seats for physicians and senior coaches who will review the curriculum and teach in it. Fellows hold faculty seats, not tenured titles. Names will appear here as each fellow signs on.
Partners
- Carnivore Academy operates the Academy and holds its intellectual property.
- Genesis Protocol (genesis4pd.com) is the first licensee and the place the method is tested week to week.
Clinics, coaching groups and researchers who want to work with us can write to lars@genesis4pd.com.