From 7 Years of Chronic Illness to a Half Marathon in 14 Months: Josh Blatchford on Bioenergetics, Predicting Injuries Before They Happen, and the Science That Saved His Life
THE RUNNING EFFECT PODCAST
Dominic Schlueter
4.9 • 822 Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Josh Blatchford couldn’t stand long enough to brush his teeth—and he was a personal trainer.
After years of chronic illness nobody could diagnose, Josh hit rock bottom in 2020. He was bedridden, losing function on the left side of his body, and spending $30,000 a year on care that kept symptoms at bay for maybe six months before they came back harder. He had a two-year-old daughter he couldn’t lift. His mother-in-law found something called bioenergetic testing on a Facebook forum.
Fourteen months after his first round of remedies, Josh ran the Columbus Half Marathon. He signed up to prove to himself he’d actually healed. He didn’t let himself believe it until he turned the corner toward the finish line.
Now Josh is the founder and CEO of Attuned, the company he built around the technology that gave him his life back. On this episode, recorded in person in Columbus, Josh and Dominic get into how bioenergetic scanning works (hair and saliva samples; 60-plus years of science; and why it can flag a stress fracture weeks before symptoms appear), what separates the Endurance Scan from wearable data, how Dominic’s own scan caught his adrenal issues and flagged his achilles before he mentioned either, and why Josh won’t recommend a blanket supplement stack to anyone—even after taking 52 a day at his sickest.
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| 0:00.0 | Guys, today on the podcast, I'm going to speak with an absolute legend, a friend, a brother, a mentor, Josh Blatchford, who is the founder and CEO of Attuned. He's got one of the craziest stories I've ever heard of. And so today I'm going to sit down with him in person in the great city and state of Columbus, Ohio. Josh is sitting across from me. We just finished the conversation. He's going to tell you how you can find if you have Achilles tendonitis two weeks before, stress fractures before they even really show up in the body, a bunch of other stuff. Josh, 15 seconds. What can people expect from this episode? Yeah, hopefully you just feel more empowered. Hopefully you feel some hope. You're going to hear a little bit about my story, how I went from being pretty much bedridden to running a half marathon to starting a company that is hopefully going to change the industry. So you're going to hear a little bit about bioanedetics, the science that's behind it, the technology that we built to support it, and see how we can turn an entire industry from being reactive to proactive. It's crazy. You're going to find a crazy story. |
| 1:13.9 | Literally listen to the first 10 minutes. If you're not interested, turn it off. That will not be you because Josh has one of the craziest stories out there. Genuinely, as he said, from being bedridden and not knowing where his life was going to go, if he was going to die to literally running a half marathon, I think he said 14 months later. So if you enjoy this one, hit the follow button so you don't miss more conversations in the future. |
| 1:28.6 | Five-star reviews. going to die to literally running a half marathon. I think you said 14 months later. So if you enjoy this one, hit the follow button so you don't miss more conversations in the future. Five star view, Josh. They should all give us a five star review specifically because of this conversation, the incredible guest you are. And then share the podcast with a friend that is the easiest way in which we can grow. And after this conversation, I know you're going to check out tuned, Josh's company, I've left a link in the show notes. |
| 1:32.7 | Literally just click on the website and read about it after this conversation. |
| 1:34.2 | I think they'll naturally do that. |
| 1:37.7 | But crazy company, check it out in the show notes and enjoy today's conversation. |
| 1:46.7 | Josh Blatchford, tell me how you can detect a stress fracture. |
| 1:48.4 | What actually happens in the body. |
| 1:49.4 | Throwing right into it. |
| 1:50.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:53.3 | So, okay, what we use is something called bioenergetics. |
| 2:00.6 | Bioenergetics is we are conductively introducing what's called energetic signatures to samples, hair and saliva |
| 2:01.6 | specifically. And when we do that, we're able to see anything that's out of balance inside of the |
| 2:07.2 | body. We have an energetic signature for literally everything within the body, including like |
| 2:13.2 | tendons, bones, muscles, et cetera. When we're doing that, the individual energetic signature is either |
| 2:19.4 | going to do one of two things. Either the body is going to be able to absorb that conductive energy, |
| 2:24.0 | or it's going to essentially revolt against it, and it's going to shoot way out of balance. |
| 2:29.8 | When it does that, it gives us an idea of how far out of balance each individual component |
| 2:34.7 | of the body is. |
| 2:36.6 | With that, we're able to cross correlate thousands of different data points that then allows |
| 2:42.0 | us to see what potentially could be out of balance. |
| 2:46.0 | The interesting piece about this though is that with the energetic side of the body, we |
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