Modern life asks a lot of the human body. How to Be Human helps you make sense of your health, understand the factors influencing how you feel, and build practical strategies for better energy, resilience, performance, and long-term wellbeing.
Grounded in clinical experience and informed by current research, coaching is personalized to your health history, lifestyle, goals, and available data.
Our biology hasn’t changed nearly as quickly as the world around us.
We sit more. Sleep less. Spend less time outside. Live with constant information, stimulation, convenience, and stress. At the same time, we have access to more medical data, health advice, supplements, wearables, diets, and competing recommendations than ever before.
It’s a lot to sort through.
How to Be Human brings the focus back to the fundamentals—while using modern clinical insight to help you understand what your own body may need.
Together, we look at the bigger picture: medical history, nutrition, movement, sleep, stress, recovery, metabolic health, performance, habits, and available health data.
Then we turn that information into something useful:
A clear, realistic plan for moving forward.
This preserves the central idea from the original explanatory copy—modern life outpacing our biology—without making claims that people are biologically “broken.”
Health rarely comes down to one isolated factor.
Sleep affects metabolism. Stress affects recovery. Nutrition affects energy. Movement influences strength, longevity, and resilience. Your medical history, environment, habits, and goals all matter.
Rather than looking at each piece separately, How to Be Human helps connect the dots.
There is no shortage of health information.
The difficult part is understanding what applies to you.
How to Be Human combines clinical experience with individualized coaching to help you make sense of the information in front of you, establish meaningful priorities, and translate good science into practical action.
Years spent working with human physiology in high-acuity medical environments provide a unique perspective on health, stress, resilience, and performance.
Sleep, nutrition, metabolism, stress, movement, recovery, medical history, environment, and behavior don’t exist independently. We consider how they interact.
Labs, medical records, wearable information, and performance data can all be valuable—but numbers are most useful when understood in the context of the person behind them.
The most effective strategy isn’t necessarily the most complicated one.
It’s the one you understand, can implement, and can continue.
Long before working in medicine, the founder of How to Be Human was interested in what the human body and mind could do.
That path began on the wrestling mats of Pennsylvania, continued through years as an elite rock climber, mountaineering instructor, and wilderness guide, and eventually led to emergency medicine and a career in anesthesia.
After earning a BS, RN, BSN, and MSN as a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, he spent 14 years working in anesthesia—an environment that demands a deep understanding of human physiology, careful attention, and calm decision-making.
Today, that same curiosity continues through ultra-distance gravel and mountain bike racing, where fueling, endurance, recovery, resilience, and physiology become very real.
How to Be Human grew from all of it: medicine, movement, science, the outdoors, and a lifelong interest in how humans function at their best.
That’s why sustainable behavior change is woven throughout the coaching process. Instead of chasing perfection, we focus on routines and strategies that are practical, repeatable, and adaptable.
Because the goal isn’t to follow a perfect plan for 30 days.
It’s to build a healthier way of living that eventually feels like your own.
Health coaching is educational and supportive in nature and is designed to complement the care you receive from licensed healthcare providers. It does not replace medical diagnosis, treatment, or emergency care.
