This week is raw and off the cuff, at Rana’s suggestion that Paul lighten up and freelance these conversations rather than script them. Coffee in hand, early on an Australian morning, he does something most people never would. He shares his actual six-monthly checkup results, live, number by number.
The point is simple. Paul talks constantly about decoding, aligning and thriving, so he holds himself to it in public. Most of the results are excellent, some hard-won after years of work, and one still needs fixing. This is what it looks like to treat your health as data you own, not a verdict handed down to you.
Core discussion points
The numbers that turned around: Paul walks through his prostate specific antigen, now negligible and steady for three years after his prostatectomy a decade ago. His cholesterol has come down from above the threshold to 2.8, against a reference of 5.6. His triglycerides, once creeping up, are back in a consistent range after adjustments to his naturopath’s herbal mix.
Managing rare and genetic conditions: He explains two conditions he lives with. Haemochromatosis, excess iron that is hard on the heart, kept in check with regular venesections. And a benign form of porphyria, the rare condition behind the vampire and werewolf myths, which is why he keeps the lights low around the house.
What the wearables reveal: Paul shows his own app data, sleep, blood pressure and vascular age. A change to his herbal blood pressure formula dropped his readings into a healthy range, and the day he forgot to take it, the numbers jumped straight back up. His vascular age now matches his real age of 59, down from readings in the 60s.
The one trend that worries him: While almost everything is improving, his weight is creeping up, and with it visceral fat, the fat around the organs that matters most for someone with severe heart disease. He is starting a trial with wild food pioneer Vic Cherikoff and nutritional scientist Sophie Gunnan to bring it back down, without GLP-1 injections, which are not suitable for his heart condition.
Titan takeaways and actionable affirmation
"Your health doesn't belong to your specialist, your GP or your cardiologist. Your health belongs to you."
Do the checkups, and read the numbers yourself: Regular blood work is the clearest way to monitor how a condition is tracking. Learn what your own numbers mean, and watch the trend over time, not a single reading.
Dynamic harmony, not balance: You will never hit perfect balance across mind, body and soul, any more than you will find perfect work-life balance. The goal is to keep the fluctuations within a normal range, and act when one drifts out.
Work with your team, not against your medication: Paul’s naturopathic remedy runs alongside his prescribed medication, not instead of it. The herbal blood pressure formula works with the statin, and the results show it.
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The navigator’s insight
Paul's whole approach rests on tracking real, patient-generated data over time, exactly the trends his wearables surfaced when he was months from a cardiac crisis a couple of years ago. That early warning is what let him act, step down from the CEO role, and pull his numbers back. Fama Concordia is built for that same steady monitoring, running calculations across your daily parameters to help you spot a drift before it becomes a crisis. She is a companion for reading the signals, not a replacement for your GP, naturopath or specialist.
Deep knowledge question: If your body can show excellent numbers across the board while one quiet trend drifts toward danger, how often would you need to look at your own data to catch it in time?
Reflection prompt: When did you last see your own health numbers, and actually understand them? What is one metric you could start tracking that would tell you something the mirror cannot?
What’s next in the Alignment Campus
The Alignment Campus is in free beta at formulaforlife.ai. Inside is Fama Concordia, where you can talk through your own health trends, and a closed community of peers managing chronic illness. Cited research behind Vic Cherikoff’s wild food work is in this week’s Reader’s Key newsletter for paid subscribers.
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