Dr. Pat Davidson is one of those guys who scares children. He makes other humans feel uncomfortable because he bleeds intensity and more than that he could rip their throat out and throw them into a wall like a ragdoll. But, all this is because these people don’t really know him.

I am not a wet bench scientist. I live in the real world and I work with people one on one. I do respect the hell out of mechanistic research as it helps us ask better questions and plays a fundamental role in pushing the field forward and I am excited to see what the fat adaptation research brings into the realm that is exercise science and nutrition in the coming decades.

Yet, ultimately two questions drive me…what does the person across from me need and what can they do…long-term?

“Dominant men have never looked so dull and dreary as they do today. During most of history, dominant men have been colorful and flamboyant, such as American Indian chiefs with their feathered headdresses and Hindu maharajas decked out in silks and diamonds. Throughout the animal kingdom males tend to be more colorful and accessorized than females – think of peacocks’ tails and lions’ manes.”
– Yuval Harari – Sapiens

“The worst form of stress is an absence of stress.”

-Eric Greitens Navy SEAL

If we are randomly on the couch watching reruns of Friends we probably shouldn’t eat carbohydrates alone as this could result in inflammation. Is this going to kill you? No. Could decades of you housing bags of wonder bread and staring sedentarily at Jennifer Anniston kill you? Yea, probably.

Fun to reread this article that I wrote almost a year and a half ago and my opinions haven’t changed much. People ask me about coffee all the time and I ask them for their genetics and for them to stop drinking it for 30 days and then reintroduce. I used to be nailed to caffeine.

She waits so long it hurts and then she slowly rises and walks to the elevator.

I get messages from many men each week that are searching for answers in the realm of male health, specifically testosterone. There is an undertone of fear around this topic in our society. A lot of us think of male physiology as being very robust, untouchable, but males are not faring well in the current estrogenic sympathetic habitat.

I have had a lot of follow-ups this month and people are doing amazing. They are dialing in their food. They are moving. They are sleeping more. Some have even started blocking blue light. Some have bought whole house water filters and started new right brain creative outlets. But when I ask about mindfulness and their meditation practice things get quiet…fast…crickets.