After a debilitating struggle with health and approaching death, unaided by doctors and abandoned by most people in my life I was forced to find my own solutions to health in order to not die. I was lucky to find such answers. But I also discovered answers to health problems which have plagued man for generations and I began excitedly sharing them with everyone on whose ear I could impose.
Read MoreIn the Summer of 1998 when I was seventeen I finally found some friends with whom I could be rebellious. It wasn’t my intent to be rebellious, but for most of my teenage years I had associated with a crowd of well-behaved kids from religiously conservative families, because that was expected of me, and they were some of the worst people I have ever met—
Read MoreChocolate cookies are not a common go-to for dessert, but these are some of the MOST delicious cookies and one of my absolute favorites. Many chocolate cookie recipes do actually use too much chocolate (yes, there is such a thing as too much, I think).
Read MoreWow, it has been almost six years since I first began this journey back to health and wellness. If you are familiar with my story (my book) you may know about how I contracted cancer and was dealing with alcoholism and the destruction of pretty much everything in my life as it all came crashing down at once. Or maybe more accurately the final culmination of health and wellness problems I’d been having for some time. But things got better once I
Read MoreAt the beginning of this year I saw the writing on the wall, and when most people were posting about their New Years resolutions I instead railed against the last decade of my life and the hardships I had to endure.
Read MoreWhen I was twenty I was living apart from my family. Two years before my parents had asked me to leave their home because I was gay and because we were not getting along on account of their harassment and persecution of me in refusing to be straight.
Read MoreThe degree to which we filter our life experience is by magnitudes far greater than we can really comprehend. As a human being we are designed to survive in a world where mortality is real, and can even come from ways as simple as stepping out into the street without looking, or succumbing to an invisible pathogen we never saw coming.
Read MoreMan, people are really mean about sugar these days. I had someone chew me out on Instagram recently after I took issue with them body shaming others, who claimed I was responsible for promoting diabetes, as if they actually cared about the people with diabetes whom they were just fat shaming.
Read MoreIn the ninth grade I broke my knee during tryouts for for the basketball team. Someone was playing dirty and knock me over, and my knee was the first thing to hit the ground. After surgery it took me nearly a year to recover. But even after all that time I still couldn’t run on it, and I wanted to keep playing a sport (especially one I liked). After some searching I finally decided to join the swimming team.
Read MoreAmong the very few problems I have is having to regularly confront people about misconceptions of fat, self worth, and what it really means to be healthy. I never cease to be amazed by the people who think they are awesome just because they are fit, even when failing to demonstrate the most basic of human niceties, let alone traits which are actually admirable such as empathy, intelligence, or humor.
Read MoreI can’t believe I went for ten years of my life without ever having doughnuts (due to my gluten allergy), and that doughnuts made with safe flours like einkorn actually taste better than normal doughnuts. Doughnuts are also way easier to make than you might think.
Read MoreOne of the biggest problems with people’s diets is the tendency to eat less fresh food. Fanatics will often take this to the extreme and practice diets like total raw and macro diets, which is an overcorrection that can actually cause its own problems. But, there are natural compounds in some fresh foods which are especially healthful…
Read MoreAbout 15 years ago I worked with this nice girl named Katy. She was really good at her job (we were both 3D artists and animators and worked freelance at a small design shop). Several weeks into our working relationship she one day asked if I wanted to hang out. I was immediately nervous that she was looking for a date. “Oh, uh. I’m gay,” I said, sheepishly.
Read MoreFor nearly the last decade of my life I’ve constantly struggled with my weight. The best thing that came out of this journey was a heightened appreciation for my body and the realization that the fat was my body protecting me and my health and not compromising it as so much conversation and medical advice surrounding weight seems to advocate.
Read MoreWhen I was thirty years old I lived in Downtown Los Angeles with my partner at the time and our two dogs. The morning after Thanksgiving is one of the absolute best times to live in Los Angeles—because so many people are out town, not working, and recovering from the day before that the streets of the city are literally deserted. When I was younger and new to Los Angeles this deathly silence was unnerving…
Read MoreTell me if you’ve heard this one— “I’m sorry you were offended.” Because of my past tendency to be drawn to narcissists, this statement and many like it were peppered liberally throughout my life, and I wasted many years trying to communicate to those who spoke this way that they had hurt me and not succeeded in repairing the damage.
Read MoreYou honestly don’t know what you’re missing (unless you do!)—there is nothing like fresh, homemade pasta. Unlike the dried stuff, homemade pasta is very soft and flavorful, and contrary to what you may think, is actually one of the easiest things to make. It takes less time and effort than making cookies. So if you can make cookies, you will love making homemade pasta.
Read MoreWhen I was in seventh grade and had only one friend, he and I decided on day to go to the arcade at the mall. We walked from our homes in the Avenues of Salt Lake City, Utah all the way to downtown. It was a warm summer day and not being allowed to play video games very often at home I was more than excited to spend a few hours away from my family playing the games that I loved.
Read MoreI have been single for more years than I have been loved, and as a weepy Libra this fact comes as quite a hard pill to swallow as I swiftly approach the end of my thirties. I always assumed that I would be married with children by this point in my life, but like most queer people I did not have the support of social groups which tend to coalesce around families to support, validate, and increase the success of pair bonding.
Read MoreGrowing up, creamed spinach was synonymous with the holidays and our once-a-year prime rib that it accompanied. But while creamed spinach appears fancy there’s no reason not to have this all the time! In fact, preparations of foods high in vitamin K with lots of fat increases the bioavailability of the vitamin K by a factor of 4!
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