I Couldn't Remember My Password. That Was the Best News of the Trip.

In August 2024 I was at the worst point of eighteen months of back pain. My wife was putting my socks on for me. I was half-listening to a podcast when I heard a Stanford neuroscientist mention a compound called BPC-157. That afternoon I was on a vendor's website with a bank transfer form open. I…

I drank butter for breakfast for two years. Two tablespoons, blended into coffee, standing at the kitchen counter before anyone else was awake. I have a medical degree and a dental one. I did it because someone on a podcast explained the science, and it made sense to me at the time. These things …

I slid twenty kilos onto each side of the bar and stepped under it. Sixty kilos with the bar. Ten reps at that weight is a warm-up for me, the set I do without thinking about it. I got to five and had to rack it. Nothing had gone wrong. I had slept badly, so I told myself that was the reason. Then …