Health
Beyond the Label: A Baker's View of the Science of Processed Food
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...
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...
"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...
When it comes to both long-term health span and a healthy immune response to the world around us, the healthier you are at a metabolic level, the more likely you are to minimize the impact and damage from everything from aging to ever-changing airborne viruses. Your gut is estimated to contain as much as 80% of your immune function and we’re finding that the state of bacteria of your microbiome...
In Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To, David Sinclair Ph.D., Harvard Medical School professor and Co-Director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biological Mechanisms of Aging, tells a story about what we’ve learned and where we’re headed with regards to aging, the one malady that affects us all. With the book, Sinclair is clearly trying to get a message out, if we look at aging a...
The team at HVMN has been hard at work overhauling their product line since making the switch from “Nootrobox” to a performance-based supplement and food (nutrient?) company at the end of 2018. Coming off a successful launch of their Ketone Ester, HVMN announced new fasting and recovery-focused products. It has taken most of the year to get the new stuff out, but my pre-order of Keto Collagen+ ...
My birthday week was quite a blur, from receiving biopsy results that my Crohn’s is in deep remission, to an infusion, to running the Bay to Breakers in a rainstorm. Forty-five is already reminding me that I am alive and WELL!
Starting at the Top My one year checkup (since my 16th surgery) showed no active disease, no inflammation and biopsy confirmed deep remission. My gastro was grinning ea...