This email is a bit of a curveball, as you might hear “death industrial complex” and think I’m going to be ranting writing about how the healthcare system is incentivized for Americans to be sick. While that’s true, it is not the focus of today’s newsletter. Instead, I want to talk about something deeply meaningful to me based on my experience of my mom’s death nearly 4 years ago: funerals and burials. 

Anxiety and depression are rampant in America right now, with around a third of the population reporting an anxiety disorder and over 20% of adults having a major depressive episode in their lifetime. On top of this, chronic fatigue and brain fog are on the rise, and are linked to inflammation in the brain (a process called neuroinflammation).

In this newsletter, I’ll be sharing my experience at the HLTH conference in Las Vegas, where I spoke on the main stage alongside prominent figures like Jill Biden, Halle Berry, and John Legend. I will be discussing the importance of metabolic health and the need to focus on the root causes of chronic disease.

For this newsletter, I’m sharing a story of how screwed up and tricky our food system is to navigate, and why eating real, unprocessed, organic food that we prepare at home is the way to go for the vast majority of our meals… 

Living a healthy life with Good Energy is not just about eating good food and sustaining physical strength. It is also a mental and spiritual struggle, and requires deep reflection, serious planning, and courage. In today’s newsletter, I want to discuss this by sharing some of my own personal and mental struggles and responses, which I hope will shed a light on these central aspects of building Good Energy.

In this newsletter, I'm sharing 15 (potentially controversial) ideas that I am thinking hard about as I start another year around the sun at age 37 ☀️ 🎂 . These are my personal opinions, based on my current knowledge and life experiences, on mindset shifts I think could help us more toward a healthier future for people and the planet. They will probably evolve over time, because that’s what should happen to ideas. I hope they support you on your journey of inquiry for a happy, healthy, engaged life.

In this newsletter, I’m sharing the full transcript of my Senate testimony from yesterday. I spoke alongside fearless physicians from Harvard and Johns Hopkins, health advocates, fitness experts, and health entrepreneurs.

In this newsletter, I'm sharing my thoughts on my personal supplementation strategy including 3 reasons why I take supplements, how to utilize testing to guide supplementation, and what I look for in supplement brands.

In this newsletter, I am sharing 94 books that I have personally read and loved on my journey to understanding a root cause approach to different diseases.

In this newsletter, I am sharing how I think about meal planning when logistics are more complicated yet we still want to eat organic, unprocessed, clean food for our cellular health and 8 strategies I use to make sure healthy eating is possible during travel⁠.

In this newsletter, I am sharing the 4 themes I've been hearing from the community plus sharing resources to help answer the many questions I've been receiving, Good Energy s'mores, and 111 pieces of marriage advice I've received from this community.