We Believe You Are Designed to Be Healthy
Chronic disease is not a life sentence. It is a metabolic signal. At The Circle, we help you decode that signal and reverse the damage.
We focus on the person, not just the numbers
For decades, the standard approach to chronic illness—Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension, Obesity, and Mental Health struggles—has been to manage the decline.
Patients are told to “watch what they eat” and take medication, yet they often get sicker year after year.
The Circle exists to challenge that narrative.
We believe that the human body has an incredible capacity to heal itself when the metabolic interference is removed. That interference is almost always Insulin Resistance.
Our mission is simple: To provide Kenyans and the world with the education, tools, and support needed to stop managing symptoms and start addressing the root cause of chronic disease.
Our Philosophy
Science-Based. Ancestrally Grounded.
We do not pedal quick fixes, magic pills, or starvation diets. Our approach is built on Metabolic Physiology and Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction.
Current medicine often treats the body as a collection of separate organs: a cardiologist for the heart, an endocrinologist for diabetes, a psychiatrist for the mind. We treat the metabolism that connects them all.
- We Educate: You cannot fight an enemy you do not understand. We teach you the biochemistry of why you got sick.
- We Nourish: We guide you back to real, nutrient-dense foods—meat, eggs, vegetables, and healthy fats—that humans have thrived on for millennia.
- We Support: We provide the “Scaffolding” of coaching and community to help you build new habits in a modern world designed to make you sick.
Our approach doesn’t just chase symptoms. We teach you how to identify and reverse insulin resistance by using food as powerful medicine. By understanding how to control your master metabolic hormone, insulin, you gain the power to heal your body and mind from the ground up.
Why The Circle?
A Program Built for Real Life
- Kenyan at Heart, Global in Science: We translate complex global research into practical local realities. We know where to shop in Nairobi, how to handle social gatherings, and how to eat well on a budget.
- Data-Driven Compassion: We use metrics (Glucose, Ketones, GKI) not to judge you, but to guide you. Data removes the guilt and replaces it with clarity.
- A Sanctuary for Healing: Whether you are fighting to save your limb from diabetes, your mind from fog, or your heart from disease, The Circle is a judgment-free zone dedicated to your reversal.
My Commitment
“I didn’t start The Circle because I wanted to be a ‘guru.’ I started it because I needed answers.”
Like many of you, I watched friends and family struggle with conditions that were supposed to be “lifestyle diseases,” yet no “lifestyle” advice seemed to help. The standard advice—”eat less, move more”—was failing.
I immersed myself in the science and works of leading metabolic experts like Dr. Benjamin Bikman, Dr. Georgia Ede, Dr. Jason Fung and Dr Christopher Palmer. What I discovered was a gap between what science knows and what patients are told.
I founded The Circle to bridge that gap. Being based in Nairobi, I realized that for this to work, it had to be culturally relevant. You don’t need expensive imported “health foods” to heal. You need to understand how to eat real food—our food—in a way that heals your metabolism.
My role is not just to coach you; it is to walk beside you as you reclaim the health that is rightfully yours.
Mugo – Founder & Certified Metabolic Health Coach