Sex is one of the most prominent themes of human life. Even before we even have sex hormones our lives are dominated by sex, unknowingly born into a world in which the adults are preoccupied and obsessed with sex and and sexual relationships, often abused or traumatized in their own childhoods by yet other adults who themselves were also abused, taught to deplore our bodies, distrust other people, and be ashamed and shame others for sex and sex behavior.

If we had any politicians with brains, we would not be having these kinds of debates, nor such impassioned struggle for basic rights and privileges of American citizens. Politics takes dealmaking, but many deals are so bad they actively imperil future generations, and politicians who make them should be voted out of office immediately rather than being lauded for bipartisanship or whatever bullshit political rhetoric is currently in vogue.

I’ve decided to start streaming on YouTube to engage more people on my work. We’ll be talking about anything you want! Food, bacteria, health. Go to my channel and subscribe so you can be notified of streams.

https://www.youtube.com/natehatch

In the Summer of 1998 when I was seventeen I finally found some friends with whom I could be rebellious. It wasn’t my intent to be rebellious, but for most of my teenage years I had associated with a crowd of well-behaved kids from religiously conservative families, because that was expected of me, and they were some of the worst people I have ever met—

Wow, it has been almost six years since I first began this journey back to health and wellness. If you are familiar with my story (my book) you may know about how I contracted cancer and was dealing with alcoholism and the destruction of pretty much everything in my life as it all came crashing down at once. Or maybe more accurately the final culmination of health and wellness problems I’d been having for some time. But things got better once I

At the beginning of this year I saw the writing on the wall, and when most people were posting about their New Years resolutions I instead railed against the last decade of my life and the hardships I had to endure.

When I was twenty I was living apart from my family. Two years before my parents had asked me to leave their home because I was gay and because we were not getting along on account of their harassment and persecution of me in refusing to be straight.

The degree to which we filter our life experience is by magnitudes far greater than we can really comprehend. As a human being we are designed to survive in a world where mortality is real, and can even come from ways as simple as stepping out into the street without looking, or succumbing to an invisible pathogen we never saw coming.

Man, people are really mean about sugar these days. I had someone chew me out on Instagram recently after I took issue with them body shaming others, who claimed I was responsible for promoting diabetes, as if they actually cared about the people with diabetes whom they were just fat shaming.

In the ninth grade I broke my knee during tryouts for for the basketball team. Someone was playing dirty and knock me over, and my knee was the first thing to hit the ground. After surgery it took me nearly a year to recover. But even after all that time I still couldn’t run on it, and I wanted to keep playing a sport (especially one I liked). After some searching I finally decided to join the swimming team.

Among the very few problems I have is having to regularly confront people about misconceptions of fat, self worth, and what it really means to be healthy. I never cease to be amazed by the people who think they are awesome just because they are fit, even when failing to demonstrate the most basic of human niceties, let alone traits which are actually admirable such as empathy, intelligence, or humor.