I’m running the Wine Glass Half Marathon in October. The last time I ran one was 3 years ago. I was 55 then and finished in 1:59:31 or 9:07/mile. This time I’ll be 58 and I would like to beat 1:55:00 or 8:46/mile. I punched my details into ChatGPT and it...

We are born equipped to thrive.  We can learn new things, improve ourselves, and bounce back from life’s inevitable setbacks. This is true of all the different parts of us, the physical, the psychological, and the spiritual. And our innate growth tendency...

Thanksgiving marks the beginning of weight gain season for adults in the US. Here’s an image from NEJM that I shared last year in a post called The Seasonality of Weight Gain that tells the tale. It even has the vertical line delineating US Thanksgiving....

Here’s one for people who want to start getting healthy today but don’t know where to begin or are having some trouble getting going. There is a lot of information out there and a lot of it is complicated or contradictory. The first thing to know is that...

Many of you reading this today are familiar with the idea of Seasonality when it comes to the stock market. For those not familiar, markets have seasonal tendencies that often play out but not always. For example, November through January tends to be the...

It’s been six years today since I’ve had a drink or taken drugs. I never told the story about the last time I got wrecked so here goes. I met a good buddy of mine in Brooklyn and we were going to see Shabaka Hutchings and his band Sons of Kemet. I...

We live in an Age of Overabundance and it is killing us. Too much bad food. Too much media noise. Too much stress. Too much stuff to get done in a day. We consume more and more without regard for how it affects our well being and my sense is there is...

The Food Pyramid was first published in the US in the early 90s by the USDA. It recommended 6-11 servings of carbohydrate heavy breads, cereals, rice & pasta daily which we now understand contributes to energy toxicity, a direct correlate to the...

I took the idea of Intermittent Fasting and applied it to my phone. I call it Digital Intermittent Fasting and I’ve been doing it on the weekends as a way to disconnect from the stupid 247365 noise spigot and endless doom scroll treadmill. Too much of...

Mid-November, I like to think about my priorities for the next year and distill them down into a few simple themes.  Doing this helps me focus on the important things so I can make them happen. Sometimes, this takes a lot of thought and strategizing,...