20/09/2026
I remember getting the phone call...
I was just wrapping up my work day as a landscaper in New Jersey.
It was Friday night.
I walked into a record store after leaving work, purchased a CD from Bull Moose Music, and headed towards my car when the phone rang...
When death is unpreventable we ask what we could have said to the person beforehand.
When it is preventable, we ask what we could have done.
When it is systemic, we ask what we are going to about it.
Confusing physiology and pathology for profit is not something the mental health industry does on occasion.
It's what the mental health industry is.
Physiology drives human behavior.
Assessing health without a health assessment is an anachronism from the 20th century.
Professionals assess physiology first.
Without data on the state of the body, stories (subconsciously influenced by recurring revenue models) take the place of science.
Today I train practitioners across the globe to build a new model for community health.
Data-informed, proactive, modern day metabolic health.
Are we directly competing?
Put it like this...
The kids in the communities we work in are on exercise programs, not Aderall.
They get skills, not pills.
Instead of labels, they learn through experience how limitless they really are.
Shout-out to our amazing practitioners in the Physiology First Fellowship❤️🔥
You aren't just building the health industry of the future.
You're restoring dignity to everyone who believed that they were broken, before learning about the power of their physiology, first.
Miss you Dad. The next time we teach a young person the science of the brain and body - that one's for you.