ABOUT PRATIK
I built the system I needed and never had.
I’m Pratik Patel, a performance health coach, registered dietitian, and founder of Blueprxnt. I spent over 15 years working in elite sport, including the NFL and NCAA Division I athletics, and over 20 years learning and studying health, wellness, fitness, nutrition, and performance.
My own health experience showed me how much someone’s circumstances matter when turning knowledge into action. I built Blueprxnt to help people connect the information with the life they actually live.
Pratik Patel, MS, RD, CSCS, ISAK 1 | Founder, Blueprxnt
THE ORIGIN
I was the clueless kid too.
I did not grow up with a system. I grew up confused, doing the wrong things, following bad advice, and never understanding why I could not achieve the goals I had for my body and health.
As a teenager, I had no meaningful guidance. No one taught me how to train, how to eat, or how to think about health in a way that accounted for the individual. I tried what everyone else tried: whatever was popular, whatever sounded right, and whatever magazines or the internet said to do.
I never had difficulty building muscle because I trained relentlessly and cared deeply about how I ate. But reducing body fat was a constant struggle. My weight fluctuated, and I spent years pursuing a size and aesthetic that were not aligned with my natural frame or realistic for my genetics.
I compared my body with how other people looked and assumed that more discipline, a stricter diet, or a better protocol would eventually force my body to become what I thought it should be.
As a college student and young professional, I was still doing too much of the wrong things. I was not accounting for how my genetics, South Asian background, family history, food environment, culture, stress, and stage of life should influence my strategy.
I understood nutrition and training professionally. But I had not yet learned how to understand myself completely.
INSIDE ELITE SPORT
My career was rising. My health was moving in the opposite direction.
My professional career progressed rapidly through some of the most demanding environments in sport.
I began at Kansas State, continued to Michigan State, and then built Oregon Football's sports-nutrition department from the ground up. I worked inside programs that won conference championships and Rose Bowls and reached the College Football Playoff National Championship.
In 2017, I joined the New York Football Giants as Director of Performance Nutrition and Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach.
I managed nutrition, hydration, supplementation, body composition, and recovery protocols across an NFL roster. I helped coordinate player-support systems across strength and conditioning, sports medicine, and performance science while working directly with coaches, medical staff, performance professionals, and front-office leadership.
I worked with All-Pros, Pro Bowlers, NFL Draft picks, and some of the most talented athletes in the world. Professionally, I had reached a level I once could only imagine.
Personally, something was not working.
THE CONTRADICTION
I was stronger than ever. I was also unhealthy.
By 2019, while working in the NFL, I was approximately 225 pounds and stronger than I had ever been.
I was also around 30 percent body fat, prediabetic, hypertensive, and dealing with deeply concerning bloodwork and hormone markers.
The qualities I had prioritized - size, strength, work capacity, and discipline - created the appearance of physical capability. Beneath the surface, my health had deteriorated.
I had spent years helping athletes use testing, data, coordinated support, and individualized strategies to perform at the highest level. Yet I was still evaluating myself primarily through gym performance, appearance, and comparison.
I did not need to work harder. I needed to understand the full picture.
GENETICS AND CONTEXT
Genetics gave me context - not an excuse.
Formal genetic testing, family history, and a deeper understanding of my South Asian background helped explain why generic recommendations had never told the whole story.
Together, they gave me context for why weight gain, visceral fat, blood-sugar control, diabetes, blood pressure, and cardiovascular risk deserved greater attention in my case. I had already watched many of those patterns affect people throughout my family and community.
Genetics did not determine my future. They helped me understand my starting point, the risks I needed to respect, and why my physiological responses might differ from someone else's.
My health was being shaped by the interaction between those predispositions and everything surrounding them: nutrition, physical activity, body weight, sleep, recovery, stress, environment, relationships, responsibilities, and the standards I had imposed on myself.
No isolated protocol could account for all of that.
This is not a population or market I discovered through research. It is personal. I understand the food, culture, family dynamics, and risk landscape because I live them.
THE FINAL INFLECTION POINT
Becoming a father changed the stakes.
My health testing, family history, career transition, and frustration with fragmented health guidance all contributed to the creation of Blueprxnt.
Becoming a father was the final inflection point.
Health could no longer be only about how much I could lift, how large I could become, or how I compared with someone else. It became about having the energy to be present, the capacity to meet my responsibilities, and the health and independence to remain fully part of my children's lives for decades.
I did not want to repeat the patterns I had already witnessed. I wanted to understand my trajectory early enough to change it.
WHY BLUEPRXNT
I built Blueprxnt because I needed it first.
Elite sport taught me that sustained performance is never created by one test, one provider, one training program, or one nutrition plan.
Athletes are assessed. Their data are interpreted in context. Priorities are established. Specialists communicate. Strategies are executed, measured, and adjusted as the athlete and environment change.
When I left the NFL and began coaching outside elite sport, I saw the same need everywhere. Athletes lost coordinated support when they left a facility. Professionals were successful but metabolically stressed and under-recovered. Former athletes struggled to rebuild structure after sport. Parents were trying to protect their health while meeting everyone else's needs.
I created Blueprxnt to bring systems-based performance health to people who do not have a professional performance department behind them.
Blueprxnt connects objective testing, genetic and family-history context, individualized strategy, coaching, and continuous reassessment across five integrated domains: Intake, Physical Activity, Recovery, Environment, and Inner Capacity.
Testing establishes where you are. Your history and genetics help explain why. Your goals define where you want to go. The five domains show us where to act.
Then we measure, learn, and adjust.
The system remains. The strategy evolves.
Explore the Blueprxnt System
EXPERIENCE
The Background
Pratik Patel, MS, RD, CSCS, ISAK 1
NFL
Director of Performance Nutrition and Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach, New York Football Giants (2017–2020). Led and coordinated nutrition, hydration, supplementation, body-composition, and recovery support across an NFL roster. Athletes under direct care included All-Pros, Pro Bowlers, and NFL Draft picks.
NCAA Division I
Built the University of Oregon’s football nutrition department from the ground up. Directed performance nutrition at Michigan State and began his career at Kansas State. Worked inside programs that won conference championships, Rose Bowls, and a Cotton Bowl and reached the College Football Playoff National Championship.
Health Technology
Director of Human Performance at Nix Biosensors. Led physiology, research, data-validation, and performance work supporting the development and market launch of wearable hydration technology.
Consulting and Advisory
Experience includes performance-health consulting, advisory work, program development, product strategy, and applied support for athletes, sports organizations, health and wellness companies, founders, and investment groups.
Education and Credentials
- Master of Science, Kinesiology — Kansas State University
- Dietetic Internship — Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences
- Bachelor of Science, Dietetics — Kansas State University
- Registered Dietitian
- Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist
- ISAK Level 1 Kinanthropometry
Media and Speaking
Featured in USA Today, ESPN, and Outside Magazine. Speaker for companies, leadership organizations, professional conferences, and performance-health audiences. Published in BMC Public Health, Sports, and NSCA Coach.
THE WORK TODAY
Bringing the approach beyond elite sport
People come to Blueprxnt with different goals and different starting points. Some want to understand a test result. Others want a training plan, a broader assessment, or ongoing help putting a strategy into practice.
The purpose is to help each person find their own Blueprxnt: clear priorities and practical actions shaped by their body, goals, and life. I also share the approach through practitioner education and work with teams and companies to apply it in their own settings.
CLOSING
Find the approach that fits your life
I was the clueless teenager who had no idea what to do. I was the college student doing the wrong things. I was the young professional who did not account for his genetics. I was the South Asian man watching preventable patterns affect the people around him. I was the NFL coach who appeared strong and successful while his own health deteriorated beneath the surface.
Then I built the system I had needed at every one of those stages.
That is Blueprxnt.
Your body, responsibilities, and priorities will change. Your approach to health and performance should be able to change with them. Explore the system or choose the service that fits what you need now.