Every Arthur needs a Merlin.

I had six, and now, I am one.

Isaac Newton, Mr. Miyagi, David Attenborough, Dr. Seuss, Leonardo Da Vinci, and my father. More than any other professors, sergeants, mentors, instructors, bosses or friends, those six individuals have each provided me with tools and insights which have proved absolutely vital on my path toward understanding the human being.

I started out with the perfect soil and conditions to grow into a life organized around health and its stewardship. My father was a clinician so doctors lounges were often my playgrounds and medical magazines—my comic books. An entire youth spent behind that curtain instilled the understanding that though they serve a purpose, true health can never come from pills or surgery, but is in fact the result of ongoing behaviors and choices.

When I returned to the world of health as an adult, I pursued a proactive approach. I have spent nearly 20 years exploring, studying, researching, testing, honing, and delightedly contemplating every aspect of the human being and its vastly interdependent systems.

I have endlessly studied the inner workings of the body and its processes and tested my own in every way I could think to; from powerlifting, to parkour, yoga to jiu jitsu, and veganism to carb cycling. In addition to my own personal testing, my work has provided a plethora of case studies. By the end of 2018, I’d held over 20,000 appointments (at which point I simply stopped counting). I’ve trained and mentored across the spread from competitive athletes to those struggling with various significant physical or neurological asterisks. I’ve helped hundreds come to understand and reverse chronic pains and dysfunctions, while deepening their connections to their own bodies and minds, and have even been invited on numerous occasions to give talks and demonstrations at Stanford University, for the city of Palo Alto, various health and fitness facilities and even elementary schools.

I have zigzagged my way through the spectrum of emotion, from the adrenaline-powdered peaks of skyscraper climbing, and the unparalleled sadness of losing my father early, to the state of true fulfillment that only genuine connection brings. To balance and compliment the experiential I studied endocrinology. All along the way, I learned to challenge my stories, practice granularity, and release the desire to control what I don’t. I learned that genuine peace, joy, and love are not only states, they are disciplines.

I have researched the mind and its hardware, challenging and developing its capacities and states by way of everything from textbooks, research papers, memorization and meditation to psychedelic experiences. I have studied neuroscience to comprehend the mind’s hardware, psychology and philosophy to understand the programming, history, etymology, and alchemy to better grasp it’s patterns across time.

I have even grown to appreciate that spirit “A force or principle believed to animate living beings” from spirare "to breathe," is in fact the most vital part of the whole, and that a life without meaning and purpose is a lung without air—processing the latter, is why the former exists.

As within, I have likewise explored “without”—from microscopic tardigrades to the immeasurably expansive space fascia of warm-hot intergalactic medium. I’ve spent as much time exploring the natural world and creatures of it as I have the human body and its many iterations. All of these explorations, both the precise and meandering, have been motivated by genuine and joyful curiosity, aka; love.

I know with absolute certainty that my calling in life is to curiously explore the wonders of these incredible worlds; both within and without, and to use the fruits of those explorations to serve and help others.

All that I do, is in service to those aims.