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Personal writing on mental health, life and the things I am into outside of work. Press / to search titles, excerpts, and labels.
9 posts labelled Health
· 19 min read
A checklist I am writing mostly for me. How to be there for my partner through pregnancy, birth and the first weeks, how to prepare for fatherhood (leave, baby skills, safe sleep, crying, my own mental health), and how to be a team once the baby is home.
· 8 min read
Spotify's co-founder bet on prevention, broken incentives, and longitudinal data. Neko's early numbers look like a thesis shipping, not a keynote — and the NHS version of waiting too long is one I already lived.
· 4 min read
Addiction, ruined relationships, lowered confidence in men, trauma, and what the NoFap community got right. Stop producing it. Ban it everywhere.
· 7 min read
The NHS is brilliant at trauma. For chronic illness and men's mental health it is often a holding pattern. Why I stopped waiting for a system to get curious about me.
· 6 min read
Subjective reality is the filter. Objective reality is what is left when the filter lies. Cortisol, thyroid, sex steroids, and metabolic chemistry shape that filter — and a lot of human conflict is two filters colliding.
· 7 min read
Alcohol has real trial evidence. Cannabis, nicotine, opioids, and stimulants have signals and studies underway. What the reward biology explains, what it does not, and why this is not an approved addiction cure.
· 8 min read
Androgen receptor density, fibre type, daily use, and muscle architecture explain stubborn calves and fast traps. Same hormones and training land on an uneven map.
· 8 min read
Depressed from 11 into my thirties. Assessed, listened to, prescribed for, and never once given a blood test. When someone finally took one, my testosterone was on the floor.
· 8 min read
Why peptides are having a moment, what major categories actually do, and how patentability and compounding rules shape access in 2026.