Strong Body, Resilient Gut He had always respected muscle. As a doctor and former thriatlonist, he’d seen firsthand how lean mass predicted everything from blood sugar stability to injury recovery. But now, as he moved closer to his 50th year, he saw it differently. Not just as armor – but as fertile ground for microbial...
I Fixed My Sleep, and My Gut Thanked Me At first, he thought his sleep issues were age-related. He’d wake up at 3 a.m., mind racing, heart slightly elevated. His Garmin watch showed fragmented deep sleep. He tried magnesium, meditation, white noise, blackout curtains. They helped – briefly. But nothing stuck. Then he looked inward....
Bugs in a Bottle: Friend or Hype? He stood in the supplement aisle of a well-stocked organic market, staring at a wall of promises. Probiotics for immunity. Probiotics for stress. Probiotics for weight loss. Probiotics for replacing hair. Dozens of bottles with billions of CFUs per capsule, many costing more than a nice dinner. And...
Feeding the Right Army He often joked that if the body were a castle, then the immune system was its army – and the gut microbiota was the black-ops unit that trained them. But like any army, it needed to be fed. And not with sugar, caffeine, and ultra-processed flour, but with what microbes actually...
The Clock That Heals It wasn’t hunger that woke him – it was rhythm. He began rising earlier. Not because of discipline or a new alarm, but because his body started syncing with something deeper. He had changed what he ate, but now it was time to change when he ate it. And it began...
My Gut Garden Begins to Bloom There was a time when he thought of nutrition purely in terms of macros. Just as he learned: protein to rebuild, carbs to fuel, fats to balance hormones. But now, after clearing out his pantry, his mindset had shifted. Food wasn’t fuel. It was fertilizer – for the invisible...
The Enemies in My Pantry For someone who had competed in triathlon races, he wasn’t expecting to lose a battle to a granola bar. But there it was – half-eaten on the kitchen counter, smug in its plastic wrapping, listing ingredients that barely sounded like food: glucose-fructose syrup, “natural flavor,” soy isolate, sunflower oil, emulsifiers,...
Would You Swallow That to Live Longer? He had done strange things before. Fasted for 3 days. Ran a 42K with nothing but water and salt on a 400m track. But then he was only 17. Participated in over a hundred fecal transplants. But this was different. This time, the recipient wasn’t sick. This time,...
The Invisible Organ – Meet My Microbiota If you asked him twenty-five years ago, just after university what the most underrated organ in the human body was, he would’ve said the fascia. The brain. No! Definitely the liver. Now? It’s not even close. It’s the microbiota – the dense, teeming ecosystem of microbes that lives...
The Beginning: A Gut Feeling They say knowledge is power. But at 49, sitting at the edge of a trail he once visited as a beginner runner, he wasn’t so sure anymore. He had spent most of his life and career looking for something meaningful that would help others – dozens of patients with mysterious...
