Not Knowing is Most Intimate

When do food and science overlap? When we talk about food, it is not really the agriculture or ingredients of it; that is a separate thing entirely. And when we refer to science, we aren’t necessarily talking about cooking. Food science is the overlap of production, performance, and marketing to solve real-world problems when producing food. Switch Bakery, the gluten-free bakery my wife and I o...

After hearing Keira D’Amato on the Strength Running Podcast share her comeback experience from an eight-year hiatus and setting American records in the marathon and half marathon, I knew I had to get a hold of her upcoming memoir. I contacted the publisher and got an advanced copy, which I breezed through in a week. Keira’s story of resilience and courage to start over resonates with me. I’m no...

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 ...

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...

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...

After twelve weeks of intensive marathon training, I was in the best shape of my life. I had been training knowing full well that I was going to be needing a surgical intervention. In just eight days in the hospital, I saw my hard-earned fitness evaporate (along with fifteen pounds). We've been told how quickly fitness declines with injury or being sidelined, but that isn't the whole story. Tra...

My muscles were on fire and my heart was beating in my head as I rang the bell, cresting the brutal mile-and-a-half climb up Highway 167 at mile 21 of the San Diego Rock and Roll Marathon. For four miles I had been dealing with wild heart rate swings from having too high a ratio of water to salt in my blood (known as hyponatremia) and had been sucking on salt tabs to try and rebalance and keep ...

If you've followed my journey with Crohn's disease, cycling, and/or running, you know that I've experimented with ketone products (and my own formulations!) for ten years, as it was one of the keys to finally getting my inflammation under control.  I've also been drinking for the last couple of weeks to prepare for abdominal surgery and through recovery. So far, keeping my ketones elevated has...