What I’ll Keep Doing Forever In his thirties, he chased performance. In his forties, he chased recovery. But as fifty approached, he realized the race itself had changed. It was no longer about squeezing more out of his body. It was about aligning with the rhythms of nature, the quiet signals of microbes, and the...
Rebooting My Aging Immune System For most of his life, he thought of immunity as a defense line – soldiers waiting to attack viruses, pathogens, or anything foreign. But as he approached fifty, he noticed something quieter but more unsettling. He wasn’t falling ill often, yet when he did, recovery dragged. A scratch healed slower....
Mood, Memory, and Microbes Before this journey, he thought that mental health was only about neurotransmitters – serotonin, dopamine, GABA – a chemical orchestra conducted by the brain. But as fatigue, brain fog, and low resilience crept into his own life, he began to see the picture differently. His microbes weren’t background noise. They were...
Cleaning House with My Gut’s Help For years, he rolled his eyes at the word detox. It sounded like a marketing trick – celebrity juice cleanses, vague promises of “flushing out toxins.” As a clinician, he dismissed it as pseudoscience. But when his own system began to stall – sluggish energy, uneven digestion, foggy mood...
