I’ve always loved exercise, but after I began having meniscus tears in my knees that required surgery, I didn’t exercise much, if…

Sixteen years of poor lifestyle choices had left my life in ruins. My marriage had dissolved. My connection to friends and family…

Diabetes has plagued my family for generations. I have early childhood memories of my grandma eating chocolate cake and saying, “I’ll just…

I grew up on a standard American diet. I was raised to eat lots of meat and dairy (which I thought I…

In 2012, I was teaching English in Japan when one day I found myself having to make a lot of urgent bathroom…

I’ve lived in Texas my whole life, raised by parents who liked to fry stuff. I played high school football and ate…

I’ve struggled with weight for most of my life. I was the big kid who got teased on the playground and then…

I first went whole-food, plant-based in mid-2018, because a few friends had adopted the diet and seemed to have way more energy…

I’ve been plagued by gastrointestinal issues since infancy. As a child I went through extensive allergy testing and discovered I had a…

I’ve been big for most of my life. I wasn’t an obese child, but I was tall and overweight, and I knew…

My dad is a physician, and we kept fairly healthy habits at home growing up. In high school, I was an athlete…