Dragon’s Kiss The recipe originally came from Lee, but he lost me years ago at the spicy chicken wings. Even then, I somehow felt that there was a serious gap between our tolerance levels for chili. Then Tamás invited me for breakfast and I tried the “Dragon’s Kiss.” The first thing I remember was the...
My Life in the Second Half: Stronger, Wiser, Microbial I once believed midlife would be about slowing down. What I didn’t expect was that at nearly fifty, I’d feel more precise, more tuned, and more alive than ever before. Not because I pushed harder – but because I listened better. I’ve learned that resilience isn’t...
The Gut Myths I Let Go By week thirty-two, he expected answers. A perfected protocol. The blueprint, the map, the control switch. But the further he went, the clearer it became: some of the most important discoveries came not from what worked – but from what he had to let go. For years, he carried...
All that matters He wasn’t there to win. Not even to prove anything. He was there to complete, not to compete. The first half of the run had felt almost unreal – steady, light, and oddly joyful. But the second half? That was where the truth lived. That’s where everything he thought he had mastered...
I Am a Different Man Now – Running 71 kms on UltraBiome He never expected clarity to arrive mid-stride – yet that’s exactly how it happened. Somewhere between the silence of dawn and the rhythm of his feet on gravel, a thought emerged: “I’m not the same man who started this journey.” Ten days before...
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...
The Elite Forces of My Microbiota In the past, he had dismissed probiotics as just capsules of “friendly bacteria” with labels more ambitious than their actual effects. Most strains were fragile, rarely colonized, and often passed through like tourists. But then he discovered the newer class: spore-formers, butyrate-producers, pasteurized metabolic trainers, and engineered consortia. These...
