Bruce, the older brother of one of my best friends has cancer… and it’s bad.

It’s one of those scary and heartbreaking stories where things are completely fine… until all of a sudden they aren’t.

Where it seems as if the universe, which has gifted you a new job, a new house, and a beautiful family, inexplicably and abruptly has a change of heart and kicks you in the balls and then punches you in the face when you’re hunched over.

Bruce had a nose bleed in May of 2015 that turned out to be nasopharyngeal cancer. … Read More

Every once in a while I’ll get a big shipment of goodies from Amazon.  In our early Amazon does, when we first became Prime Members, The BJJ Cavewife and I would order things from Amazon willy-nilly.

Shampoo?  Click.  USB Cable?  Click.  Paperclips?  Click.  All as separate orders whenever the impulse arose.

It was amazing.  Two days after the click, a box would show up at our doorstep without any additional shipping costs.

Then we started thinking about all the resources being used just to ship these products out to us. … Read More

Growing up, videogames were a big part of my life.  Nintendo, Sega, Turbo Graphx, Playstation, and Xbox systems all took up residency in underneath a TV in my home at some point or another.  And let’s not forget about PC games.

In fact, the only point in my life where I’ve gone for a significant amount of time without a console system is NOW.  In our cross country move, after reading and applying the principles of Marie Kondo’s, “Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up,“I jettisoned all of my systems and games.… Read More

If you’ve ever wanted to learn more about mitochondria and how they’re affected by the ketogenic diet, I have just the article for you.  DoctorMyhill.co.uk has an article titled Ketogenic Diet – a connection between mitochondria and diet, written by cardiologist, Dr. Gabriela Segura.

The format of the page isn’t the friendliest and I found myself squinting and adjusting the font size a few times to get it right, but I learned some interesting things that I hadn’t known before.  I already knew that mitochondria are where the Kreb cycle occurs, fats are broken down into energy, and ketones are generated, but that was about it.… Read More

One of my best friends has a habit of sending me long articles.  He has this dream job where he seems to have all the time in the world.  I visited him at work once and he has his own office with a big desk and a multi-monitor set up and has people working under him.  It’s kind of a funny thought since I’ve known him since the fourth grade… but then again, I guess it makes sense since he’s one of the smartest and most diligent guys I know.… Read More

It’s been a little quiet here on BJJCaveman.com for the past few months or so and I haven’t had the chance to keep up with my posts because things have been all sorts of crazy.  I wanted to share a brief personal update just to let you guys know what’s been going on.

We Moved Back to California!!!

I grew up in California and did all of my training in California including college, med school, internship, residency, and fellowship.  In 2012 we moved to Cleveland, Ohio to take a job that gave us a lot of time off. … Read More