About

I've had a complicated relationship with my stomach for a long time. In 2018 I was diagnosed with an H. pylori bacterial infection — the kind that quietly damages your gut lining and leaves you with an ulcer before you even realize something is wrong. Treatment cleared the infection, but it changed the way I think about food. You stop taking a functioning digestive system for granted pretty quickly when you've experienced what it feels like when it isn't.

2025 brought another chapter. More stomach trouble, more time paying close attention to what I was eating, how I was eating, and what the research actually says about gut health, inflammation, and the long game. That's the phrase I keep coming back to — the long game. I'm in my mid-fifties, and I plan to be wing foiling, practicing yoga, and playing pickleball well into my seventies. That ambition has consequences for how I think about what I put in my body every day.

I'm based in Rochester, NY, where eating well in February requires intentionality and good recipes. I'm not a clinician. I don't have a protocol to sell you. What I have is genuine curiosity, a history that made healthy eating personal rather than theoretical, and a lot of time spent reading, cooking, experimenting, and paying attention to how food actually makes me feel — not just in the moment, but the next morning, on the water, on the court, on the mat.

What I've landed on isn't a diet. It's more like a practice — built on curiosity rather than restriction, on what's genuinely nourishing rather than what's trending, on cooking as something worth getting good at rather than a chore to minimize.

This site is where I share what I'm learning. Recipes that work on a Tuesday night. Ingredients worth understanding. Research worth reading. Honest observations from someone with real skin in the game — who needs this to work, not just to be interesting.

If you're somewhere in that same territory — motivated less by aesthetics than by wanting to feel good, stay active, and be around for the people and experiences that make life worth living — you belong here.