Guts & Black Stuff

Lisa: How do you feel? What's inside you right now?
Nelson: Guts... and black stuff... and about fifty Slim Jims.

This blog: What's inside us, how our bodies are constructed, how they work, 
and how to optimize them. I believe that many aspects of our health and
physical and mental performance can be controlled with the right mix of
knowledge, lifestyle, and technology. For example, weight, physical
strength, and cholesterol (an indirect influence on cardiovascular health)
are all controllable today with proper nutrition, physical training, and in
extreme cases medication. Many more health issues - cancer and aging come
to mind - will be controllable in the future as technologies such as gene
therapy, stem cells, general biotechnology, and nanotechnology come to
maturity.

The author: My name is Greg. I'm an engineer professionally, and will bring 
that viewpoint to this blog (whether I intend to or not). I am not a 
credentialled provider of healthcare, athletic performance, mental training, 
or anything related, and have no qualifications whatsoever (otherwise 
I'd publish in a nice peer-reviewed journal instead of this lousy blog). 
However, I do take a keen interest in reading a good deal of literature 
on topics ranging from nutrition to physical and mental performance to 
synthetic biology. This blog is primarily a way for me to keep notes, 
share those notes with others who might benefit from them, and perhaps 
learn more from the resulting discussions.

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