First Week of Training Completed

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...

"Inside the Mafia of Pharma Pricing" is the latest from Matt Stoller’s excellent newsletter on monopolies, called simply, “Big”. This time Matt and his team turns their focus on Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), the money-sucking leeches that stand in the middle of drug price negotiation and manufacturer rebates. PBMs were once simple claim processors but as Big Pharma started to become conglom...

I've been taking Timeline's Urolithin A product, Mitopure for the last month since finishing my first marathon. The product is extracted from pomegranates and has some pretty compelling science behind it when it comes to immune function and inflammation. I've found it to have really helped my marathon recovery, particularly the inflammation and fatigue that can come from such a tough effort. I...

In recognition of World Meditation Day on May 21st, I’m curating recent finds from my own practice. I started a daily practice in 2016 that turned into five years of daily sitting. Eight years later, meditation, along with movement and physical training, have been crucial for getting through a decade of health issues and Crohn’s Disease, and provide a direct through line to deep remission. Mind...