Sleep & Mental Wellness
The 20-Month Sleep Bomb (And How We All Survive It) 3 AM. Again. There I was, standing in my daughter's doorway in my questionable pajamas (think: hole in the knee, mystery stain on the shoulder), watching her perform what I can only describe as a one-woman Broadway show.
Fitness & Exercise
I spent three years thinking I was genetically cursed to be weak. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6 AM, I'd drag myself to the gym to follow the same strength program that had transformed my roommate into a mini-Schwarzenegger. I tracked every rep, measured every protein shake,
Weight Loss Wisdom
Why Your Grandmother Was Right About Living Long (And Biohackers Are Wrong) Three years ago, I was the person spending $200 on NAD+ supplements and tracking my HRV like it was the stock market. I had a freezer full of organ meats, a red light therapy panel that cost more
Nutrition & Diet
Why I Put Frozen Dumplings in Salad (And You Should Too) Last Tuesday, I was staring into my fridge at 7 PM, mentally calculating whether I had enough energy to cook something that wouldn't result in me eating cereal for dinner again. In the freezer: a bag of
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Zone 2 Cardio: The Boring Exercise That Actually Works I was doing Zone 2 cardio before it was cool. Actually, that's a lie. I was doing it when it was decidedly uncool—back when admitting you enjoyed a leisurely bike ride was like confessing you still used Internet
Nutrition & Diet
Stop Making Perfect Matcha (Your Taste Buds Will Thank You) Okay, real talk — I've probably made more terrible matcha lattes than good ones. And you know what? I'm not even sorry about it anymore. There was this one morning last month where I was rushing to
Fitness & Exercise
Look, I'm gonna start this with something that'll probably piss off half the fitness "experts" out there: Those calorie counters on your treadmill? Pure fiction. And that article you read about burning 617 calories in 30 minutes? Missing the entire damn point. The Inconvenient
Sleep & Mental Wellness
The 6-Week Sleep Regression: A Parent's Survival Guide (Because Nobody Warned You About This) 3 AM. Again. I'm sitting in my daughter's nursery, holding a tiny human who apparently decided that sleep is for the weak. She's 6 weeks old, and until
Sleep & Mental Wellness
Surviving the 2-Month Sleep Regression (And Your Sanity) Picture this: You're finally feeling like you're getting the hang of this whole parenting thing. Your 7-week-old has been giving you those blissful 3-4 hour stretches at night. You've even managed to shower twice this week
Nutrition & Diet
This Middle Eastern Spice Just Saved My Weeknight Salmon Game Okay, confession time. I used to be that person who bought salmon with the best intentions, only to let it sit in my fridge until I felt guilty enough to make the same boring baked-salmon-with-lemon routine. Again. But then I
Weight Loss Wisdom
Stop Apologizing for Taking Weight Loss Medication Here's something that's always bothered me: we live in a world where people apologize for treating their medical conditions. I see it constantly in my practice. Patients sheepishly mention they're "thinking about" Ozempic, like they&
Nutrition & Diet
The Shakshuka Epiphany: Why This One-Pan Wonder Changed My Entire Approach to Cooking It was 11:47 PM on a Tuesday, and I was staring into my fridge with the kind of existential dread usually reserved for debugging production code. Another 14-hour day, another sad desk salad for lunch, another
Fitness & Exercise
Stop Training Like a Civilian If You Want to Survive Selection I still remember watching Jenkins collapse at the 1.8km mark during our selection run. Kid had been crushing 10-milers every damn day for months leading up to it. His Instagram was full of motivational bullsh*t about "
Weight Loss Wisdom
Why Your Biohacking Obsession is Making You Less Healthy I'll be honest with you—I used to be that person. You know the one. The friend who meal-prepped with military precision, tracked every macro, and could tell you the exact optimal temperature for ice baths (11°C, in
Sleep & Mental Wellness
The 5-Month Sleep Regression No One Warns You About It's 3:47 AM and I'm googling "is my baby broken" for the third time this week. If you're reading this while your previously decent sleeper is currently treating nighttime like an all-you-can-eat
Fitness & Exercise
Why You're Still Slow at 5Ks (And How to Actually Fix It) Let me tell you about the time I completely bombed a 5K after following what I thought was the "perfect" training plan. Picture this: 6 months of religiously tracking every split, obsessing over my