In Search of Gumption

In Search of Gumption

Inflammation Nation (Part 2 of 2)

Your body isn’t malfunctioning. It’s responding to a broken world.

Mar 11, 2026
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I have just returned from a trip to Kenya, the land of pole pole (the famous Swahili phrase that means ‘slowly slowly’).

Instead of twelve hours of screen time, my days were filled with sun, warm Indian Ocean air, simple coastal seafood, and the smiling faces of the Swahili and Giriama people.
(Most of all — I did not hear the letters A or I once on my …

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