
About CJ Infantino
Founder at Project Grief
CJ Infantino is a widowed dad, founder of Project Grief, and host of the Rebel Reset podcast, where he provides science-backed health advice on supplements, gut health, and holiday survival strategies under the persona Dr. Infantino. His writing on Medium and Substack centers on personal grief from losing his wife to terminal cancer, workplace bereavement support, and the raw process of rebuilding life. He advocates for grief-informed workplaces, drawing from his experience changing Facebook's bereavement policy, while blending health expertise with social impact in AI/ML, biotech, education, design, and grief support.
Health and Wellness Expertise
CJ Infantino, presenting as Dr. Infantino, hosts the Rebel Reset podcast, delivering practical, biology-driven advice on common health pitfalls. He debunks supplement myths, explaining why most act as 'symptom managers' rather than root-cause fixes and how to test efficacy without waste [1]. He reveals holiday illness as a sugar-induced immune and gut disruption, offering recovery strategies [2]. For Thanksgiving, he provides a 'survival guide' against bloating, leaky gut, and metabolic chaos from 4,000-calorie meals [3].
Personal Grief and Loss
Infantino's writing intimately explores widowhood after his wife's terminal cancer death. He confronts the uncontrollability of death despite perfect living [6], shares raw reluctance to write amid grief [8], and reflects on 'loss' as an enduring state [9]. Substack notes convey growth through grief [10], reject 'healing' as mere coping with immutable thought patterns [11], and describe forgiving past self-hatred [12]. His Substack profile frames him as a 'Widowed Dad who rebuilt everything' [13].
Workplace Grief Support
A key advocate for grief-informed workplaces, Infantino highlights research showing grief impacts 1-in-4 employees, making support a 'must-have' [5]. He details changing Facebook's bereavement policy for the better [7] and breaks down the economics and benefits of grief support at work [4].
Grief and Personal Rebuilding
Core focus on navigating widowhood, rejecting simplistic healing narratives, and finding growth amid immutable loss.
Workplace Bereavement Support
Pushes for grief-informed policies, backed by research on employee impact and personal policy change success.
Practical Health Optimization
Science-based tactics for gut health, supplements, and holiday recovery, emphasizing root causes over symptoms.
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- Rebel Reset with Dr.Infantino: Supplements: What Really Works, What Doesn’t, and How to Test Them (Without Wasting Money)podcast_episode · 2026-04-14
- Rebel Reset with Dr.Infantino: The Shocking Reason You Get Sick After the Holidays (No One’s Talking About This)podcast_episode · 2026-04-14
- Rebel Reset with Dr.Infantino: Thanksgiving Survival Guide: Stop Bloating, Leaky Gut & Metabolic Chaospodcast_episode · 2026-04-14
- Why #grief support at work matters: research and benefits. - LinkedInarticle · 2026-04-14
- Why grief-informed workplaces are a must-have. | CJ Infantino ...article · 2026-04-14
- No Matter | by CJ Infantino | Mediumarticle · 2026-04-14
- I Changed Facebook's Bereavement Policy. | CJ Infantino - LinkedInarticle · 2026-04-14
- I Don't Want To Write Anymore | by CJ Infantino | Mediumarticle · 2026-04-14
- Loss | by CJ Infantino | Mediumarticle · 2026-04-14
- CJ Infantino (@cjinfantino): "After my wife passed from terminal ...article · 2026-04-14
- CJ Infantino (@cjinfantino): "“Healing is only learning to cope. Our ...article · 2026-04-14
- CJ Infantino (@cjinfantino): "I wrote a letter to the person I used to ...article · 2026-04-14
- CJ Infantino - Substackarticle · 2026-04-14