About Bryan Dourado | Salvage Health

I'm Bryan Dourado, founder of Salvage Health and author of Fitness Without the Fear. I'm not a doctor and I didn't grow up with a playbook. Everything I share here, I learned the hard way.

Finding my own way

I had a unique upbringing, to put it lightly. I grew up in poverty, went through adoption, and was living on my own at a very young age. Nobody handed me a map, so I learned to find my own way.

That path took a lot of turns. I spent years as a working musician. I built a career in sales and marketing. I ran restaurants and worked as a chef. Every one of those taught me something about people, pressure and showing up when it counts.

Hitting the wall

It wasn't all a highlight reel. Along the way I dealt with drug addiction, alcoholism and failed relationships. My health went with it. I hit my heaviest, prediabetic, with high blood pressure and sleep apnea, and I wasn't even 40.

Eventually I got fed up. Fed up with starting over, with feeling stuck, with the version of me I was living as. So I decided to pick up all the pieces and figure out how to actually do life.

Picking up the pieces

I started studying what creates success in other people. Not just in health and diet, but in income, support, friendship and relationships. What do people who have it figured out actually do differently? Then I started applying it, one piece at a time.

Health was where it showed first. Once I understood how nutrition and training really work, I lost over 80 pounds. That process became my book.

Second chances exist. Hell, in my case, twentieth chances exist.

Why Salvage Health

I'm not done, and I don't have it all figured out. But I know I'm on the right track, and I want to share the stories, the successes and the failures with anybody who's willing to listen.

What I've learned comes down to three things: be consistent, be accountable, and be honest with yourself first. Everything else gets built on top of that.

Salvage Health is here because second chances exist. Whatever you've been through, whatever you're carrying, it's not too late to take your life back. Salvage Health is here to help.

Want to reach me? Email hello@salvagehealth.com or find me on Instagram.