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June, 2025
First Week of Training Completed
Coming home from the hospital after my surgery, I was under strict orders from the doctors to not raise my heart rate for 12 weeks. Last week I passed the threshold and got on the Peloton for the first time for some very easy spins (below 100bpm) and this week, I was able to test the waters with a little training.
I'll be talking about my goals for the next 6-12 months soon, but for now, the ...
Topping Up: Friday the 27th
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I was back in the kitchen this week, making sandwiches for the Santa Cruz Farmer’s Markets. It was fun to get creative, making cashew-based mozzarella for a vegan caprese sandwich and a buckwheat t...
The Plastic Lurking in Your ‘Perfect’ Protein Bar
Living with Crohn’s disease means I’ve spent over a decade trying to manage inflammation while maintaining an active lifestyle. Like a canary in a coal mine, my body is extremely sensitive to hard-to-pronounce ingredients lurking in food to the stress of the environmental load from the world around us. As both an athlete and someone who runs a gluten-free bakery, I’m constantly navigating betw...
Daily meditation reaches half-a-year
After blindly forgetting to meditate for the first time in six years last winter, I reached the half-year daily mark on the solstice.
I'm using The Way app these days, while running a timed session on Insight Timer in the background because I have 10 years and over 3000 hours of meditation logged there.
First post-surgery workout in the books!
First structured workout since my abdominal surgery in March. It was a warmup to zone 2 workout — I’ve been under strict orders to not raise my HR, so it felt really good to get sweaty!
Topping Up: Friday the 13th
This was the busiest week I've had since my surgery at the end of March. I took a shotgun trip to Ashland, Oregon (that is Mt. Shasta in Northern California in the photo) to see a dear friend who turned 90, catch up with my dad who was in town, see one of my daughters, siblings, and celebrate my niece's graduation. If that sounds like a lot—it was—and it was 104 degrees out!
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Switch Bakery Hosts a "Gut Health Market Walk" with Joshua
Joshua Bradley, author of the "Crohn's Disease AIP Cookbook", co-owner of Switch Bakery, and celebrated autoimmune athlete is hosting a market walk focusing on shopping for gut health. The free walk will take place at the Downtown Santa Cruz Farmer's Market on June 11th at 2:00 PM, starting at the Switch Bakery market stand.
Bradley, whose work in anti-inflammatory living has earned praise from...
Topping Up the First Week of June
In my inaugural post rounding up things that have caught my attention this week, I want to set the scene by with the intention of topping up my week and yours with these posts. I have a lot of interests and share many of the anxieties others have about what is going on in my body, community, and the world, so this is a place to share things I've rounded up from the week.
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Joshua Bradley is passionate about making life better as an impact-focused entrepreneur, chef, and autoimmune athlete.
After being told by doctors that they didn't know how to resolve the extreme inflammation from his Crohn's disease, Joshua dove deep into researching genetics, the microbiome, mitochondrial health, fasting, and ketosis. He synthesized what he learned into a diet and training program that put his Crohn's into deep remission for three years and launched him into a previously unknown world as a cyclist, runner, and triathlete.
Joshua has developed eco-friendly plastics for the yoga and shoe industries, started The Silk Experience fine-dining dinner club, and has had a 20-year career in technology from the IT department to co-founder of an Ed-tech startup. He is currently making good-for-your-gut food with his wife at their gluten-free bakery, SwitchBakery.com.
After being told by doctors that they didn't know how to resolve the extreme inflammation from his Crohn's disease, Joshua dove deep into researching genetics, the microbiome, mitochondrial health, fasting, and ketosis. He synthesized what he learned into a diet and training program that put his Crohn's into deep remission for three years and launched him into a previously unknown world as a cyclist, runner, and triathlete.
Joshua has developed eco-friendly plastics for the yoga and shoe industries, started The Silk Experience fine-dining dinner club, and has had a 20-year career in technology from the IT department to co-founder of an Ed-tech startup. He is currently making good-for-your-gut food with his wife at their gluten-free bakery, SwitchBakery.com.