My Life in the Second Half: Stronger, Wiser, Microbial
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....