part of the reason why i left medicine and surgery and focused on wellness is because i had poor nutrition. when i sat in classes during medical school at harvard and also when I was on the wards at the massachusetts general hospital, brigham and women's hospital, and beth israel deaconess medical center, as well as cambridge hospital, I realized that my nutrition was poor. during classes, during the first two years, the words that I heard that were associated with myocardial infarction, hypertension, atherosclerosis, hypercholesterolemia, dyslipidemia, metabolic syndrome, diabetes mellitus, hepatitis, liver diseases, obesity, and likely some other diseases were things that I had in my life, on some level. I was not the worst ever, nutritionally, but my nutrition was poor, no doubt. I was a high performing athlete with some accomplishments. I had been recruited to play soccer collegiately, and I also did train with the under 20 national men's soccer team of jamaica.