Essays
Technical essays on adaptive systems, essential fatty acid biochemistry, hormetic endocrinology, and the physiology of form and function.
2026
- Merchants of Doubt
The manufactured architecture of American anti-intellectualism. How identifiable actors spent decades and billions manufacturing doubt about expertise—and built a trillion-dollar parallel economy on the result.
- Hormetic Endocrinology
Chronic testosterone replacement creates dependency through HPG axis suppression. Brief cyclical perturbation may preserve or enhance baseline function—a hormetic approach to endocrinology with falsifiable predictions.
- When Architecture Fails
From double bonds to metabolic crisis—why essential fatty acids are essential, how they're consumed, and what breaks when replacement can't keep pace.
- Thyroid Hormone as the Guardian of Form
The cell maintains its shape against entropy through continuous energy flux. T3 is the conductor of this anti-entropic effort—not a metabolic accelerator, but a structural organizer.
- The Integrated System
Velocity, stability, form, and consolidation aren't separate ideas—they're components of one system. Here's how the pieces fit together.
- Systems at the Edge
Complex systems survive in a narrow band between rigidity and chaos. From Prigogine to Taleb—the same patterns keep emerging.
- Essential Architecture
You don't burn lumber while your walls are falling down. PUFAs aren't fuel—they're building blocks that cause problems in the wrong metabolic context.
- Consolidation Amplifiers
If racetams enhance cholinergic function, they should specifically improve how well adaptations consolidate after training. A framework for thinking about timing.
- Merchants of Doubt