{"id":7730,"date":"2015-01-16T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fxnutrition.com\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:21:09","slug":"when-does-biography-become-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fxnutrition.com\/blog\/when-does-biography-become-biology","title":{"rendered":"when does biography become biology?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"when does biography become biology?\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2015-01-16T10:34:15+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Things are hopping in the Replenish virtual halls right now as I&#039;m teaching a series offree workshops for nutrition practitioners called Reframe Nutrition.\nThat teaching has me thinking a lot about one of my favorite quotes:\n&quot;Your biography becomes your biology&quot;.\n________________________________________________\nIf you recently joined me and downloaded my new ebook, Functional Nutrition 101, welcome, I&#039;m so thrilled you&#039;re here!\nPlease note that both Replenish PDX and Holistic Nutrition Lab come directly from the desk of Functional Nutritionist (Andrea Nakayama). That&#039;s me! And I&#039;m here to provide you with insight and information that will help you on your journey in every aspect of your &quot;practice&quot; of health.\nThank you for allowing me to walk by your side.\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/15_minute_matrix\/s3.amazonaws.com\/replenishpdx\/misc\/dawn.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"3.7\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9677\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7730-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/15_minute_matrix\/s3.amazonaws.com\/replenishpdx\/misc\/dawn.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/15_minute_matrix\/s3.amazonaws.com\/replenishpdx\/misc\/dawn.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/15_minute_matrix\/s3.amazonaws.com\/replenishpdx\/misc\/dawn.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p>Hello, hello!<br \/>\nThings are hopping in the Replenish virtual halls right now as I&#8217;m teaching a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalnutrition101.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free workshops for nutrition practitioners<\/a> called <em>Reframe Nutrition<\/em>.<br \/>\nThat teaching has me thinking a lot about one of my favorite quotes:<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Your biography becomes your biology&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If you recently joined me and downloaded my new ebook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalnutrition101.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Functional Nutrition 101<\/em><\/a>, welcome, I&#8217;m so thrilled you&#8217;re here!<br \/>\nPlease note that both <a href=\"https:\/\/fxnutrition.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Replenish PDX<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/holisticnutritionlab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holistic Nutrition Lab<\/a> come directly from the desk of Functional Nutritionist (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.andreanakayama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrea Nakayama<\/a>). That&#8217;s me! And I&#8217;m here to provide you with insight and information that will help you on your journey in every aspect of your &#8220;practice&#8221; of health.<br \/>\nThank you for allowing me to walk by your side.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1>Your biography becomes our biology. . .<\/h1>\n<p>When I was a kid, we all read <em>Our Bodies, Ourselves<\/em>, the pivotal book on women&#8217;s health and sexuality.<br \/>\nDo you remember it?<br \/>\nThe book spoke openly about subjects that were formerly (and publicly), taboo ~ subjects such as why we bleed and get cramps, how to protect ourselves during sex, and where our sexuality may be seated inside of our bodies.<br \/>\nWomen, young and old, were <em>hungry<\/em> for this information about ourselves.<br \/>\n<em>Our Bodies, Ourselves<\/em> sold over 250,000 copies as a hand-made pamphlet, without any advertising. It&#8217;s gone on to sell over four million copies world-wide.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s interesting that over forty years later, we still need to fight to uncover the information that speaks to <em>what&#8217;s going on in there<\/em>.<br \/>\nWe still need to search for the health care providers that will address <em>why<\/em> we&#8217;re experiencing a sign or symptom, instead of just covering or concealing it with a quick-fix.<br \/>\nWe still need answers, as the expressions of ill health are now epidemic.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.functionalnutrition101.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">While I champion and practice the examination of the deeper physiological and clinical underpinnings of each person&#8217;s manifestation of ill health, I also want to call attention to the importance of the story. Your story.<\/a><br \/>\nYour story and your body, both unique to you, are equally parts of yourself.<br \/>\nThe same goes for me.<br \/>\nToday I would like to invite you to glimpse at a piece of <em>my story<\/em>, <em>my<\/em> self.<br \/>\nMany of us have a moment in life where we can distinguish a <em>before<\/em> and <em>after<\/em>. There may be several of those moments in your life.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Note: If you can&#8217;t think of one of those moments, I challenge you to consider the time in your life when you felt your very BEST and then chronicle the events moving forward from that point.<br \/>\nAnd if you if you feel better now than you ever did before, you&#8217;re rockin&#8217;! Go ahead and consider<em>why<\/em> you think that is and anchor all the factors so you can come back to them again.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For me, one of those big moments was when my husband was diagnosed with a brain tumor.<br \/>\nI could tell you the story quickly, and I often do, but the truth of how that moment impacted my body and my life, how it influenced my hormones and my future expression of disease, are better captured in the details.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not just a widow, but a woman who eats, drinks, sleeps, and exercises. And these things require my attention. But I&#8217;m also a woman with a specific set of genes and a body that has been deeply influenced by the circumstances of my life.<br \/>\nAnd I&#8217;m not alone.<br \/>\nI share my story with you below, not just to illustrate how the truth of my health lies in the fine elements, but to invite you to consider the same for yourself.<br \/>\n<strong>What are the details of your body and yourself?<\/strong><br \/>\nBe forewarned: the story you&#8217;re about to read may be intense. And it&#8217;s just the beginning. It&#8217;s the <em>before<\/em> and <em>after<\/em>. It&#8217;s one moment, in a succession of moments, when everything changed ~ not just in my life story, but in the story of my health as well.<br \/>\nThe intensity of what I share lies within me. My biography has become my biology.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s with this profound personal awareness of the intersection between story and body that I meet and serve my clients. They come to me with a malady, underneath which is invariably tangled a tale.<br \/>\nWhat stories can your cells tell?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a health care practitioner, don&#8217;t miss getting your hands on my free ebook called <a href=\"https:\/\/functionalnutrition101.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Functional Nutrition 101<\/em><\/a>.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/fxnutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/FN101-ebook-cover-angle-with-shadow-2.png\" alt=\"FN101-ebook-cover-angle-with-shadow-2\" width=\"159\" height=\"186\" \/><br \/>\nWhen you get the ebook, you&#8217;ll also receive an invitation to join my free three-part workshop,<em>Reframe Nutrition<\/em> that&#8217;s happening right now.<br \/>\n<em>Want to go deeper?<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/functionalnutrition101.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grab <em>Functional Nutrition 101<\/em> now!<\/a><br \/>\nWarmly,<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fxnutrition.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Andrea-sig-158px.png\" alt=\"Andrea Nakayama\" width=\"224\" height=\"74\" \/><br \/>\nP.S. If you&#8217;d like to continue the broader conversation of the effect of story on physiology and health and vice versa, please join me on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/holisticnutritionlab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Holistic Nutrition Lab Facebook Page<\/a>. I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2 style=\"padding-bottom:20px;\">DAWN<\/h2>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/jwpsrv.com\/library\/bUQtLO5AEeKt+CIACqoQEQ.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id='playerfkSHBXRbNXnZ'><\/div>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript'>\n    jwplayer('playerfkSHBXRbNXnZ').setup({\n        file: 'https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/replenishpdx\/misc\/dawn.mp3',\n        image: '\/\/www.longtailvideo.com\/content\/images\/jw-player\/lWMJeVvV-876.jpg',\n        title: 'Dawn',\n        width: '480',\n        height: '12'\n    });\n<\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 16, 2000<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>5:26 AM<\/strong><br \/>\nTime is standing still.<br \/>\nSeconds are protracted.<br \/>\nMy mind and heart race. Each minute betrays a new possibility.<br \/>\nHope and fear delve deeper into my cells and my soul than they\u2019ve ever resided.<br \/>\nI lie in my bed, anxious and cold, trying to apply logic to the absurd.<br \/>\nIt was simple to begin with: we thought he had a sinus infection. But Isamu had never had a sinus infection. My husband was rarely ill.<br \/>\nMy cousin Adam visited us the previous weekend. He arrived at our home with a horrible head cold, sniffling and sleeping through his stay. I was thankful for the relaxed weekend of simple meals and mid-day naps.<br \/>\nJust into my seventh week of pregnancy, my body felt achy and squeamish. I was troubled by thoughts of whether or not this life inside me would <em>stick<\/em>, become a tangible part of our future. Isamu easily acquiesced to the lethargy of the house as well, retreating under the covers with me to stave off the chilly spring San Francisco rain, holding his open palm against my belly, communicating with his touch to the embryo we had together created.<br \/>\nAt the start of the work week, my cousin flew back to southern California. Yet he seemed to have left the congestion behind, with Isamu.<br \/>\nIsamu spent his sleepless nights jokingly cursing Adam, whom he loved as if they had actually shared their childhoods. The cold symptoms disappeared quickly, but by Wednesday the headache lingered. It was so fierce that Isamu stayed home from work, in bed all day, barely eating.<br \/>\nHe\u2019d almost never missed work in the seven years I\u2019d known him. He was driven by a hard-core internal motivation to excel. His typical barefoot and laid-back manner, slow and deliberate speech, didn\u2019t reveal the intensity with which he pursued any of his passions.<br \/>\nIsamu had taught himself each new software program or twist of a language, and his fingers could run over a computer keyboard in myriad codes, as fast as those of a jazz musician at the piano. Without any formal engineer training, he went from purchasing and piddling around on a new computer to developing software and managing a team of developers within the time I knew him. He didn\u2019t skip a beat in the fast evolution of software, let alone a day of work.<br \/>\nAfter just one sick day, Isamu left in the morning as he usually did, on his bicycle, riding down the hill to his office in San Francisco&#8217;s Mission District, determined to get back to work.<br \/>\nHe came home on foot by mid-day.<br \/>\nThe head pain was now so acute that he was unable to concentrate and dubious that he could bike up the hill to our flat.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll confess that my patience was running a bit thin while I stumbled through the unease of early pregnancy. My stomach was in a knot. I felt fragile. The sight and smell of most of my favorite foods repulsed me. I was in a shroud.<br \/>\nMy attention, my compassion, was focused on my own body, on my self.<br \/>\nIsamu usually resisted being taken care of when he was sick anyway. Characteristically, he didn\u2019t yield to maternal instincts and his manner seemed to intrinsically reject patronization. And I had nothing to give. I implored that he go see a doctor. At the age of 31, having just chosen a primary care physician a couple of months earlier for the first time in his adult life, I couldn\u2019t comprehend why he didn\u2019t tackle this situation head-on like he did all others, and go see her now.<br \/>\nOn Friday, he left for work in the morning and from there, he did go to the doctor. He took the bus. He didn\u2019t call to ask me to drive him. He didn&#8217;t want to bother me. He just phoned when he got back to his office.<br \/>\nHis headache was diagnosed as a sinus infection and medication prescribed.<br \/>\nThat night, after running some errands, a trip to the pharmacy for the meds, and an odd episode of vomiting right on the city sidewalk, I walked up the stairs to our flat, just ahead of Isamu. Behind me I heard him fumble with the last stair and laughed out loud, \u201cWhat\u2019s going on?!\u201d<br \/>\nJust as I turned to face him, he fell to the floor, catching himself with his left knee. I got down on my own knees, serious and intent now, all my attention on him for the first time in weeks, and asked the same question again. \u201cWhat\u2019s going on?\u201d<br \/>\nThe question was perhaps more for the air hanging thick between us, pregnant with a variety of possibilities, then for Isamu to answer.<br \/>\nThe severity of his headache was unusual, the vomiting curious, but watching my small but solid husband\u2014the man who encouraged me to scuba dive and snowboard beside him while he methodically worked his body to master each sport, the man I saw skillfully scramble down rocky mountain trails and up branch-less trees\u2014fall to his knees when walking up a simple stair, was just plain alarming.<br \/>\nHe said his legs had gotten wobbly, they&#8217;d seemed out of his control.<br \/>\nI did what I\u2019d never done and called the on-call doctor at the special hotline number on the insurance card. The answering service connected me immediately. Dr. O spoke to me, to Isamu, and finally to me once again.<br \/>\nHer advice was that Isamu should stay in bed the following day, drinking lots of liquids. If the pain was still agonizing we should call her to get an authorization to go to the hospital the following night.<br \/>\nFor a &#8220;neurological exam&#8221;, she may have said.<br \/>\nBut that comment went right over our heads.<br \/>\nThe following night, the pain was unbearable. Isamu had stayed in bed all day long. He hadn\u2019t had more than a few tiny bites or sips of anything I brought him, a juice with protein powder, some soup, toast from fresh baked bread with butter. Simple foods. All hard to digest in the face of his suffering.<br \/>\nHe was in such agony he barely spoke.<br \/>\nI got things done: laundry, grocery shopping, cleaning, and kept coming back to him in the bedroom.<br \/>\nUsually when home, weeknights or weekends, if we were not doing something together, Isamu was in front of his desktop computer, a chunky laptop propped on his thighs, or with a book of some sort or another in his hands. Music was always on the stereo or on his headphones, unless we were listening to a favorite radio program on public radio, <em>This American Life<\/em>, <em>Selected Shorts<\/em> or <em>Wait, Wait, Don&#8217;t Tell Me<\/em>.<br \/>\nBut on this day the house was quiet.<br \/>\nQuiet, yet still too loud to silence the earsplitting throbbing in his head.<br \/>\nThings appeared worse than the night before. But Isamu didn&#8217;t have a fever.<br \/>\nI found myself questioning whether it was a matter of perspective\u2014whether the headache just <em>seemed<\/em> really bad because he was always so healthy, so unaccustomed to being sick. I wondered whether his tolerance for this kind of discomfort was just really low.<br \/>\nI could kick myself now for even thinking such a thing, but at the time I was trying to make sense of the insensible.<br \/>\nThere was the vomiting, the strange trip on the stairs, and there were moments when he was actually moaning from the intensity of his misery.<br \/>\nIsamu&#8217;s mother, in from out of town, joined us for dinner at our house that night. We ate. Isamu sat politely through dinner and nibbled at some food. Then without comment he made his way from the dining table to a large chair in our living room, propped up his feet and closed his eyes.<br \/>\nJust as silently he returned to bed.<br \/>\nI looked in on him in the darkened room, body supine, brow furrowed and I called the doctor. She instructed us, just as she had suggested the night before, to go to the hospital.<br \/>\nThe hospital wasn\u2019t far, but we\u2019d never been there before. It was the same hospital where we were expecting to deliver our baby in about seven months.<br \/>\nOn the way over I imagined us driving to the hospital for the birth of our baby, Isamu at the wheel coaching me through the pain of contractions while I slouched in the passenger seat, a bulbous belly stretching toward the glove compartment.<br \/>\nOur son&#8217;s birth would look quite different than that.<br \/>\nThe emergency room was not too busy for a Saturday night. Isamu handed his insurance card to a nurse and I stood by his shoulder. Then he vomited the contents of his dinner into a mustard colored bucket that was quickly whipped under his chin. Pink salmon, red beets, the little bit he had eaten in the last 24 hours.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s not blood, it\u2019s beets,\u201d I told the large male nurse who had magically appeared with the bucket.<br \/>\nAfter some hours of waiting, Isamu was wheeled away on a gurney for a CAT scan. I begged to follow and together we traveled in an employee elevator to a seemingly empty floor, with room after room of large medical machinery.<br \/>\nAfter the scan, they wheeled him back down to the ER and we sat together on the rolling bed, positioned sideways in the hallway, parked up against the wall, our feet dangling off the sides of the stretcher like two small, helpless children.<br \/>\nThere was &#8220;only a 4% chance that something would come up on the scan&#8221; we were told, and we worried out loud about the effects of a spinal tap, which we&#8217;d been advised was the next test to be performed.<br \/>\nThere was no spinal tap.<br \/>\nIsamu was in that 4%.<br \/>\nThe testing branched out in a whole new direction.<br \/>\nAn ER doctor came over to talk to us after catching Isamu\u2019s eye watching him relay the news to another doctor. Isamu would not alter his gaze. If there is something to say about me, say it <em>to<\/em> me, his eyes demanded.<br \/>\nHe could not be intimidated, even by the unknown.<br \/>\n\u201cI hate to tell you this,\u201d the doctor began, \u201cbut your CAT scan looks awful.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cIt does not look like the scan of the man sitting in front of me,\u201d he continued.<br \/>\nHe quickly ran through the gamut of possibilities from a brain infection to cancer and said that a neurologist would be down to see us shortly.<br \/>\nI hopped off the gurney, with the instinct of a scribe, and went to the desk where the doctor had been standing minutes ago to grab paper and pencil for taking notes. Just minutes between the end of one reality and the beginning of another.<br \/>\nThe word \u201ccancer\u201d said within the space of a second.<br \/>\nER doctor: Dr. M<br \/>\n2 CAT scans<br \/>\n2 blood samples<br \/>\n3 DARK SPOTS ON BRAIN<br \/>\nWe sat waiting, na\u00efve, idealistic, invincible.<br \/>\nI suppose we were numb.<br \/>\nUnbelieving.<br \/>\nOur brains not knowing where to go with this information. Within minutes of receiving the news, Isamu mentioned some concern about what this would mean to his future cognitive abilities. This is what troubled him most.<br \/>\nDr. N arrived. The first neurologist of many we would meet over the next two plus years. He was nice and young and performed a battery of sophomoric tests: eyes following his finger, standing on one foot, opening and closing fingers as quickly as possible.<br \/>\nI watched trying to detect anything wrong, but like the doctor said later, it all looked normal. \u201cIs his face always crooked like that?\u201d he asked me after having Isamu turn his face toward me. \u201cYes.\u201d<br \/>\nHe told us that at UCSF we would be handled by one of the best neurology departments in the country; that we were in good hands. As if it can be good to be in the hands of any neurology department, I thought.<br \/>\nAnother neurology resident arrived and it was clear that Isamu was now a &#8220;case&#8221;, a &#8220;specimen&#8221;, something to be pried at and studied\u2014no longer a man, but a brain. A brain with three dark spots.<br \/>\nThey carted him off for a chest x-ray. Then four blood cultures for bacteria testing.<br \/>\nIt would take three days to receive the results.<br \/>\nThe same nurse that had checked us in, that handed Isamu that first mustard-colored vomit bin in that other life\u2014the life of a headache and not a brain ailment\u2014performed the blood extraction.<br \/>\nIt was after 2:00 AM.<br \/>\nIsamu was awake and still in pain.<br \/>\nHe asked for another bucket.<br \/>\nI sat and focused on the possibility of a brain infection. I knew nothing about neurological illnesses, but the sound of brain cancer sounded ten times more horrifying than infection.<br \/>\nAn hour later, Isamu was admitted to South 8; the neurological floor of the hospital. Room 817, bed 1.<br \/>\nI got him settled into bed, whispering in the dark room, kissing his face and resting my open palms on his broad cheekbones, stubbled chin, and at his heart center. The same places I would touch two years later as he took his last breaths.<br \/>\nBut that night he took my hand in his and gave a tight squeeze, looking deeply into my eyes, assuring me that he would be OK.<br \/>\nReluctantly I left Room 817.<br \/>\nI walked down the hall of the neurological unit.<br \/>\nI took the elevator down the way we had come and half stupefied, half pragmatic, I walked out of the hospital into the cold early morning air.<br \/>\nI drove home alone.<br \/>\nThe streetlights were a blur, the drive in the car passing without any consciousness.<br \/>\nI needed to get some sleep, I reminded myself, to take care of this growing embryo inside my body. Yes, I was pregnant.<br \/>\nI had entered the hospital with Isamu by my side, and the preciousness of life focused inside my own body. I was leaving alone, me and our embryo, the preciousness of life redirected outside my body, to Isamu, my love.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/fxnutrition.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/replenishlogoflower.gif\" alt=\"replenishlogoflower\" width=\"127\" height=\"129\" \/>Your comments and feedback are always welcome.<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:support@fxnutrition.com\">Andrea Nakayama<\/a><br \/>\nFunctional Nutrition<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/fxnutrition.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.fxnutrition.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.holisticnutritionlab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.holisticnutritionlab.com<\/a><br \/>\n800 496-0383<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are hopping in the Replenish virtual halls right now as I&#8217;m teaching a series offree workshops for nutrition practitioners called Reframe Nutrition.<br \/>\nThat teaching has me thinking a lot about one of my favorite quotes:<br \/>\n&#8220;Your biography becomes your biology&#8221;.<br \/>\n________________________________________________<br \/>\nIf you recently joined me and downloaded my new ebook, Functional Nutrition 101, welcome, I&#8217;m so thrilled you&#8217;re here!<br \/>\nPlease note that both Replenish PDX and Holistic Nutrition Lab come directly from the desk of Functional Nutritionist (Andrea Nakayama). 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