I'm a 19 year old dude from Seattle interested in human well-being. I like studying how some of us flourish while others get sick. 

There are a lot of sick people in the world. People suffer from depression, cancer, and chronic pain in addition to an unfortunate variety of other ills.

I believe a lot of these health problems can be prevented or healed by eating, moving, and living like our ancestors, who were mostly unaffected by the diseases that plague modern society.

I also like to travel and practice lifestyle design. Right now I am taking a gap year to have fun, break out of the normal path, and find my own direction.

In 2011 I worked for Barefoot Ted at Luna Sandals and attended Dickinson College. In 2012 I got my personal training certification, got my nutrition certification, wrote an eBook, and am working as a TEFL teacher in Madrid. Right now I also write for Natural News and Paleo Magazine.

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Adventure

• Visit five continents
• Become conversationally proficient in Spanish
• Go on a beach horseback ride
• Go on a multi-week sailing trip
• Become conversationally proficient in a third language
• Ski a double black diamond
• Walk from Canada to Mexico
  
• Get asked to coffee online by a stranger
• Go to Burning Man festival
• Live with a local family in a foreign country
• Cook 20 meals in a row for myself
  
• Eat out for 20 days in a row
• See a lion, giraffe, and zebra in the wild
  
• Host a party with more than 100 people
• Meditate with monks for a week
  

Accomplishments

• Start a scholarship program at my old high school
• Publish a fiction book
• Speak at a college or university
• Publish an article in a magazine
• Play guitar in a bar
• Meet Chris Guillebeau, Mark Sisson, and Steve Kamb
• Write an article that is shared more than 2000 times on Facebook
  
• Create a video with 5,000 views
• Be in a movie
• Own a world record
• Write a recipe book
  

Health

• Get a nutrition certification
• Become a certified personal trainer
• Meditate every day for a month
• Run a sub 5 minute mile
• Run a 25k race
• Hike a mountain barefoot
  
• Deadlift and squat 1.5X body weight
• Do a one handed pullup
• Do 20 handstand pushups
• Hold a handstand for 30 seconds
• Fast for 48 hours