Evan LoFranco

Connect What fuels your passion for health and fitness?

My passion for health and fitness stems from a commitment I made to embrace life. I got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes last year at the age of 30 and after crying and feeling confused and sorry for myself (which is an important piece of the process), I became incredibly grateful to still be able to manage my disease and have control over my health. So I started tracking my macros, controlling my blood sugar, and building muscles I never knew i had. All in attempt to embrace my life!

What’s your favorite way to train or stay fit?

I LOVE bodybuilding style training mixed with basketball. I’ll do some explosive stuff plyometrics etc to maintain my first step and continue to torch the young guns in pickup, but I also enjoy pump workouts for the glory muscles. It’s all good.

What would you do with $20,000?

A couple of things spring to mind. I’ve been a musician for the past 15 years, and I’m a new graduate in Computer Science. I would love to marry these two things by telling my story through speaking about diabetes and health technologies on youtube, and sharing my songwriting as well. I would also potentially reinvest in my education to work towards a Masters that could allow me to more meaningfully contribute to autoimmune diseases!