We'll decode and solve your weight problems using cutting edge science

Using experimentation, modern science and AI, we’ll get you on a path that lets your body naturally shed excess weight and put you in control of your health again

What Our Users Say

  • “Keto was pretty hard for me. On the other hand, the high starch diet Patchwork coached me through was the opposite. Since May 2024, I’ve lost about 30lbs.”

  • “I stuffed myself with cabbage and carrots. They would overfill my stomach leaving me bloated, gassy, and still mostly unsatisfied. Since embracing Patchwork my bodyfat hovers around 15% now effortlessly”

  • “I look more and more like pictures of my grandma at my age. Non scale victory. I had to move up 2 belt holes to keep my pants up :)”

You're tired of trying the same fads over and over without hitting your goal

The Problem

Takes enormous willpower

If it works or fails you’re not sure why

Doesn't create long term success

Feels like you are fighting your own body

The Solution

Run simple experiments to work out how your body works, and then give it what it needs

3x easier than sticking to the wrong diet

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90% of users report increased energy in 30 days

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5x more likely to prevent weight regain based on hunger measures

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3x easier than sticking to the wrong diet 〰️ 90% of users report increased energy in 30 days 〰️ 5x more likely to prevent weight regain based on hunger measures 〰️

It’s safe, easy, and painless to use Patchwork

Who Are You?

Provide detailed information about your health, diet history and lifestyle.

Every answer gives us clues as to what is going on inside your body and will let us ask better questions.

Let’s Cook

Get a science-backed plan tailored to your body and circumstances.

Each step of the plan is an experiment with the opportunity for us to make better bets with you.

Add Your Data

To increase the probability of success, you can optionally upload any DNA, microbiome or lab tests that you have.

This is 100% private and we will never ever sell your data to anyone.

Your data and outcomes will help us make better recommendations for you and other members like you.

Low Effort Weight Loss

Follow your plan and update the app as you go.

There is no single reason why someone’s energy tanks and they gain a whole load of weight, but several small reasons.

Together we try to identify and resolve each one.

Every experiment gives us more information to decipher the keys needed to unlock your body.

Did you know? Our questionnaire goes beyond standard medical inquiries. We ask questions that even your doctor might not think to ask, allowing us to create a truly comprehensive and personalized plan for you.

If your weight is getting in the way of life, you owe yourself Patchwork.

Things we try to figure out

  • What drives your hunger?

  • Why did your body lower your energy and make you gain weight?

  • Has it always been like this?

  • What changed?

  • How does your body handle different fats?

  • Are your natural detox systems blocked?

  • Does your body prefer to burn sugar, starch or fatty acids?

  • Have you been poisoned?

  • What sources of inflammation are there?

  • What part does your environment play?

  • What deficiencies are you prone to given your genetics?

  • Is sleep working with or against you?

Things we don’t care about (and neither should you)

  • A calorie is a good measure for comparing different macronutrients, but it mostly gives us zero context on what you are actually eating or how much.

    On the whole we just don’t care that much.

    Now if you tie calories to hunger, we can be curious on how hungry you are and potentially why you are suffering from food noise, but in this situation, calories consumed are an outcome and not that actionable.

    The ideal world patchwork works towards is getting your body cranking, eating foods that fit well with your biology such that your body can expend excess weight naturally without obsessing over hunger/tracking.

    Seeing food as numbers, and telling yourself you can or can’t spend numbers in a day (in the long term) is the epitome of confused eating and is obviously unsustainable.

  • Exercise is great for health, toxin degradation and lowering inflammation but is not necessary and in most cases useless for weight loss unless you’re in a metabolic hole and happy to do more damage.

    Pontzer 2012 showed that the first 450kcal of additional exercise each day is net 0kcal burned as your body down regulates your metabolism to make up for it.

    If you push past this 450kcal, you will burn additional net calories in the beginning, but again your metabolism can down regulate further and become more efficient to handle this.

    Then when you stop with the crazy exercise - you’re stuck with a significantly down regulated metabolism which gets stuck as seen in the follow up studies of the biggest loser contestants.

    If you want to do exercise - great!

    That is awesome, it is so good for you and your heart.

    But don’t do it to burn “calories”.


    For further reading - look into “the constrained energy model”

  • When it comes to determining how much protein you need to build muscle, the science is clear and consistent: more isn’t always better. Let me walk you through the key findings.

    In 2017, a comprehensive meta-analysis found that a protein intake of 0.7 grams per pound of body weight per day is enough to maximize gains in fat-free mass (i.e., muscle). Beyond this level, eating more protein didn’t provide any additional benefits.

    A 2022 meta-analysis confirmed this, showing almost identical results with 0.68 grams per pound being optimal for maximizing strength gains. These conclusions came from a review of 45 high-quality studies that controlled for meal frequency and other variables. Across all of them, no study found additional benefits from eating more than 0.7 grams per pound of body weight per day.

    Even when protein intake was pushed significantly higher—up to 1.3 grams per pound per day—there was no improvement in muscle recovery, reduced soreness, or faster strength recovery. Once your body has the protein it needs, anything extra isn’t being put to good use.

    This aligns with decades of research, going back to work by scientists like Dr. Tarnopolsky in the 1980s. Studies on strength athletes and bodybuilders consistently found that protein intakes around 0.7 grams per pound per day were sufficient to maximize muscle growth, strength development, nitrogen balance, and muscle protein synthesis.

    The benefits of protein for satiety—how full it makes you feel—also plateau at similar levels. Research shows that eating more than 0.72 grams per pound of body weight per day doesn’t provide any extra advantage when it comes to hunger control.

    For those who are overweight or working on weight loss, it’s worth noting emerging research on branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs), a type of protein component. BCAAs may induce acute insulin resistance, which can make it harder to lose weight.

    Fundamentally if you have a good amount of weight to lose, and you are on a biologically correct diet, your body should have zero need to catabolize your existing muscle mass. That’s where we get you to.

    Consuming more protein won’t provide any additional benefits and, in some cases, may complicate weight loss efforts.

  • If you’re coming from veganism, kale is a superfood. If you’re coming from carnivore, kale is the devil.

    We just don’t care. And you shouldn’t either.

    Diet cults are unhealthy and we don’t play that game.

    Is there context we gather where we’re curious how much insoluble fiber or soluble fiber you are eating - SURE!

    But vegetables carte blanche - NOPE.

Ready to start moving in the right direction?

Let’s start learning about you today. Your personalized plan is waiting.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Want to lose weight FAST for a wedding - nope, that’s not us.

    10lb lost quickly is 20lb gained back quicker.

    Members on average float around 0.5lb to 2lb lost per week but we let your body do it at the pace it wants to rather than forcing loss through aggressive tracking and white knuckling.

    And if you are carrying extra  weight that isn’t moving - that is a data point to be investigated with more experiments/tests.

  • Yes, you absolutely can.

    When we go through the intake questions, you can call out that you don't have up-to-date blood work, DNA testing, Omega testing or Microbiome testing.

    We can adjust the questions that we need to ask you to try and infer with reasonable confidence some of that information.

    You can also choose at a later date to get that testing done and add it.

  • Based on someone's history, that includes their genetic history, their parents' behavior, their history with drugs and antibiotics, their surgery and dental history, their illness history, we believe that every person has a uniquely tuned energy metabolism and cellular energy system.

    What Patchwork does is two things:

    1. Tries to decipher what the energy metabolism and cellular energy system looks like for you, such that you can optimally get the most energy from the food you eat and lose weight.

    2. Tries to decipher the series of events that occurred that led to you being hungrier than you needed to be, such that you gained weight in the first place.

    Once we can decipher those two things, we can put you on a sustainable path to lose weight and keep it off for the rest of your life.

  • Not at all.

    We think that exercise has a great number of benefits, but fundamentally, usually, people in a low energy state have no energy and get no enjoyment from doing regular exercise.

    So what we actually hope is that if you have an exercise habit, you can totally keep doing that. That's great.

    If you don't, there's no pressure from us to pick one up, but we believe that once we get you into a much happier, healthier, more energetic state where you are consistently losing weight and your metabolism is unblocked, you will just naturally want to move more and probably pick up an exercise habit.

  • From time to time it might turn out that your micronutrient need is not being met by the food regimen that you're on.

    We advocate for a whole food approach to solve that given the supply chain contamination issues with supplements.

    However, we might suggest that you take supplements just to make your life easier if you say, don't want to eat certain things.

    If you are currently taking a prescription drug regimen, we ask that you call that out during the onboarding.

    With regards to weight loss drugs specifically, every drug has two side effects:

    1. It doesn't actually solve the underlying cause or issue.

    2. It might have some actual side effects that come with the drug.

    If you are thinking about using a prescription weight loss drug specifically, every individual person has their own risk vs. benefit analysis they need to do.

    We are actually pretty helpful in this area and really happy to try and help you work through that.

    However we are highly confident that we can achieve what we're trying to do without any additional prescription pharmacology.

    And in fact, many of our members have come to us after giving up on Ozempic etc

  • You own 100% of it. We will never sell it, licence it or pass it off to third party providers.

    In working with you, we naturally use your data to get better at making recommendations and if it is ever used for training it will be entirely anonymized.