Why Fitness Is the Foundation of My Life
I was raised on a ranch in the redwood forest, discovered weightlifting at 16, and went on to study how exercise affects the brain. Ask me about it and I'll happily go on for hours.
Fitness has been a cornerstone of my life for as long as I can remember.
I was raised on a ranch in the redwood forest, where I looked after four horses, three dogs, an aviary of birds, a pond of koi fish, and a garden. Growing up that way gave me a degree of mental and physical discipline, and I didn't realize until later in life how unusual that was.
At 16, I fell in love with fitness, weightlifting in particular. It soon came to mean far more to me than how I looked. What it does for my mind matters just as much as what it does for my body.
That's a big part of why I studied neuroscience. I was fascinated by the way exercise changes the brain at a physiological level. I could talk about it for hours, and it has genuinely changed my life.