At work, your command energy builds teams and ships projects. You’re the one people turn to when things need to get done, and you’ve built a life around that capacity. At the family reunion? That same energy quietly turns you into the planner, the peacekeeper, the one your parents vent to, the one your siblings lean on — until you’re running a week-long offsite you didn’t really choose, for a
Here’s something most wellness conversations completely miss: your fat tissue isn’t just sitting there quietly, storing energy until you need it. It’s talking to you. Constantly. It’s the voice behind your 3pm chip craving. The reason you want that second glass of wine even when you know you don’t. The signal that whispers “you need this” when your body actually needs something entirely different—a deep clean. Fat tissue is now
1. When the serpent was still holy Before Genesis turned the serpent into a liar and Eve into a problem, the Near Eastern world was full of stories where snakes meant wisdom and trees meant direct access to the divine. In Mesopotamian myths and early iconography, humans sit beside a sacred tree with a serpent between them, reaching for fruit that symbolizes knowledge and life. The serpent is a boundary‑crosser—moving between earth and
What happens to the human brain when we play with primal poisons and modern processed “food”? In UNINFLAMED I argue that we’re not just inflamed in our tissues; we’re inflamed in our stories. We fear red‑capped mushrooms we hardly understand, yet we normalize an ultra‑processed diet that quietly erodes cognition, mood, and memory over decades. When you actually look at the human data on Amanita muscaria—and then lay it next
Every spring and fall, as a 9th grader in Western civilization class, my allergies would go haywire. Right after lunch, it was as if someone turned on a faucet in my nose that just wouldn’t turn off! Picture me, the kid who always had a mountain of tissues, sneezing and sniffling through history dates and dynasties. It was more than just physical discomfort; it was downright embarrassing. While my classmates
Adipose tissue is now considered a bona fide immune organ,at the cross-roadbetween metabolism and immunity.— Kassem Makki: adipose tissue scientist When I was writing Uninflamed, I dug deep into fat cells. (Fat cells are adipose tissue.) Why?Because either your fat cells are releasing anti-inflammatory blood markers. Or your fat cells are generating inflammation How do you know?Just do the Pinch Test. Do the Pinch Test. Here is a 1 minute
