I finished my last Hyrox event six minutes slower than I wanted to. I know exactly where the time went: the sled push in the second half, where my hips protested more than I’d anticipated and I had to reduce push pace to manage the load. I walked out of the event genuinely frustrated. Then I drove home, showered, and sat with it for a while. And what settled was […]

The first thing I do after waking at 5:30 is nothing. I lie still for approximately two minutes. Not meditating — just allowing the transition from sleep to waking without immediately reaching for my phone or assembling the day’s agenda in my head. This is not instinct. It is deliberate, and it is the result of several years of paying attention to what the first ten minutes of the day […]

I spent years in this profession thinking about ageing as a problem to be solved. Not consciously, and not in those terms — but in practice, that was the frame. Every patient who came in presented a version of the ageing problem, and my role was to identify the problem’s components and address them with appropriate tools. That is a reasonable clinical model. The shift came gradually. It had something […]