Road Less Traveled · Engineering Healthspan
Patrick Dempsey · PE, MBA · Certificate in Nutrition Science, Stanford University
July 2026 · 5 min read
| This is the companion to this week's video, where I drew the line between training you choose and training that has started choosing you. Watch it here → |
In this week's video, I drew a line between training you choose and training that has started choosing you. Near the end I flagged a layer I could not do justice to on camera, and promised to take it apart here.
It is this: the line between commitment and dependence does not run through the same ground for everyone. For many women — the women in our lives, and those of you reading — it runs straight through food and bone.
I am a man. I cannot speak to this from the inside, and I will not pretend to. But the research is clear enough that staying quiet would be the bigger mistake. So here is what it says, and what to do with it.