Don't read this if you are dabbler with your baby toe half way immersed in a warm bath tub. Only read this if you are willing to dive in and swim out to the middle of lake with no knowledge of how far it is or if you will have the energy to get home. Because this post...

Natalie Goldberg came up with this metaphor of composting our experiences. Our minds are a heap of garbage and overtime we sift, marinate, and distill all these experiences and knowledge into something useful, even beautiful.

A lot of people in consults may wonder what the hell is Ferritin? And why does this guy keep chattering about it while spending 10 minutes drawing diagrams about iron.

Well, we need iron to make a ton of enzymes, all neurotransmitters, and hemoglobin. Seventy five percent of iron is delivered to the bone marrow to make red blood cells so that these cells which make up 25% of all the cells in the human body can carry around oxygen. Which all cells (other than RBCs) need to make energy. Important? Umm yes. As Dr. Culleton puts it, “if you are low on iron you are choking from the inside out.” No Bueno. Thus, some of your female athletes may be living anaerobic. This doesn’t sounds like a recipe for success no matter what your interval protocol is.

Breathing in present moment breathing out only moment. I have picked up so many mantras and sayings that infiltrate my thought process throughout the day. Some of these are very helpful, others are prude and straight-jacketed thoughts that have made pleasure feel like a ruler swiping across my wrist.

It took 6 minutes of sitting this morning before I heard the rain. I was so excited for what is happening. For all the interesting facts and academic adventures playing out in my mind. I finished my first book in that 6 minutes and moved to Costa Rica and had three babies all by myself. Then I woke up. To Austin. To the pitter patter of soft rain on big windows. To the excitement of the darkness and to my breathe. We can always find the present moment. It never goes anywhere and our breathe is our anchor.

Today perform a random act of kindness. Smile at a stranger. Send someone a note in the mail. Pay an expired parking meter. Congratulate a friend with a warm embrace.

I was recently reading The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari. It is so good and then there are three pages that just need to be ripped out of my kindle. The Author went full bore into the benefits of eating vegetarian and how people feel better when they start eating vegetables. Thanks, buddy, no shit. If you go from shoveling in cheeseburgers and fries to eating copious amounts of fruits and vegetables – you are going to feel a lot better. Then you after a while you won’t. Because human beings need precious substances like essential fatty acids and amino acids, B-vitamins, and iron which are not available in plant products. And no spinach, is not a viable iron source. Think it is? Prove it to me with blood work. A Complete Blood Count is $4.95.

“To live life to the fullest, you must stand guard at the gate of your mind and let only the very best information enter. You truly cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought —not even one…on an average day the average person runs about sixty thousand thoughts through their mind, ninety-five percent of those thoughts are the same as the ones you thought the day before…

This is the tyranny of impoverished thinking.”

-Robin Sharma

I am a doctor.

I have been waiting nine years to write that and it may matter more to others than to me. I leave bits and pieces of how I came into this field in my writing, but I wanted to take this time to tell the story.