I’ve discovered “intimate comedy night” may be the most anxiety-inducing social activity with IBD. I'm not sure if you've ever been to a comedy show and seen what happens when someone gets up to go to the bathroom, but that is the fastest way to get the attention of a professional comic. Luckily, Helen Hong had us laughing from minute one, and got intimate with her own cancer story and the anxi...

Despite one-off insurance contract issues, I made it to my monthly Remicade infusion. Tomorrow, I’ll be doing two 5k runs for Ostomy Awareness Day - a 5k for each ostomy I’ve had.

After two months of recovery from abdominal surgery, I am finally back running. Interestingly, I immediately felt some of the IT/deep glute soreness that was around after my marathon. Factoring in the surgery, that effort really took a toll on my body!

The first week of my recovery from a procedure to repair a defect from my previous surgery has gone pretty well. The wound vac is doing its job and healing is certainly moving fast, but it is weird to live with a fish tank pump attached to your belly. I talk a lot about the importance of getting enough protein, especially while healing (30% or more than baseline) and the impact of inflammatio...

It turns out that the defect in my previous abdominal surgery required another surgery to fix! Monday, I went into Stanford for lucky number #21. Everything went well, and I'll be out tomorrow with a wound vac (negative pressure wound therapy sounds much cooler!) to accelerate healing. In our last podcast episode, Amanda and I talked about my pre-surgery protocols—my number one tip for hospita...

I wasn't sure I was going to make the start line at Wharf to Wharf this week because of an issue related to my surgery a year ago, but I laced up along with 16,000 other people and had a great run. Last year, I got a terrible corral placement and spent two miles or more of the six-mile race playing frogger with people who weren't really there to run. This year was much better, opening up quite...

My box of Mitopure from Timeline Nutrition showed up just in time for marathon recovery. The effects of Urolithin A has made a lot of news, most recently for the benefits of mitophagy (the targeted destruction of damaged mitochondria) in the brain. When I was trying to pull myself out of an inflammation tailspin, it became clear that without properly functioning (and equally honed cleanup of) m...

Race day started off as one of about thirty runners with no ride share to the start from the hotel. We scrambled and 3 of us managed to get a ride to the start just as the National Anthem started. One of the guys that got in the car noticed I had “IBDAthlete” on my bib and turns out he is Trent, The Marathon Man. It was a serendipitous and adrenaline filled pre-race! [Me and The Marathon Man] ...