So, why are we here?  Too big a question.  Right?  No, I meant here on this website.

First off, I never had any intention of starting a website or blog.  I’m certainly not doing it for any sort of enjoyment factor, but rather just to make some use out of all the time and effort I have put into learning about all this crap.  A medium to share my current state of thought. 

I don’t want to preach, and I don’t want to waste my breath on someone who isn’t actually interested, but I do want to help people get connected with the information that they need to help them make meaningful changes in their own lives (if they so desire to do so).  Unfortunately, me trying to direct people to fifty different websites, blogs, and videos in any other format is just not feasible, so here we are.  Consider this my personal note pad.  Many brief (and some not so brief summaries), and a whole bunch of links to the best info I have come across on a whole range of topics.  There is a whole lot of good information out there, but finding it is not always that easy.  My intention is not to reinvent the wheel (or wall), but rather to connect together many of the great resources that I have stumbled upon or weeded through to find, putting good information more easily at your fingertips.

What began as a web search of  “What the hell is cholesterol?”, which somehow, and thankfully, landed me on Dr. Peter Attia’s “Straight Dope on Cholesterol” blog series, has ultimately sent me flying out on a journey (my wife calls it an obsession, but I choose my words differently) exploring the depths and ties between health/wellness, biology, biochemistry, aging, cognition, diabetes, cancer, etc.  Working in the field of engineering, this new inquisition is a bit out of my realm (and certainly way more interesting).  But thinking of the body as a system, with processes and mechanisms for pretty much everything that happens, maybe we really do need more biological engineers.  Ones that are hellbent on understanding biology and health, not just making big bucks for the Pharma companies.

As science goes, things evolve, knowledge grows or morphs into new forms.  Things we thought were true, maybe were a bit off, or sometimes just weren’t even close.  What we know is today; what we know tomorrow will hopefully be something more.  Keep learning, and be critical!  That is the foundation of good science.