Nick Chubb is returning to Cleveland this weekend to officially retire as a member of the #Browns. One of their all-time greats.

A 12 year old boy walks into my office having already seen a psychiatrist, an allergist, a lung doctor, maybe a GI doctor. Seven different drugs by age 12. Kicked out of kindergarten for being disruptive. Diagnosed with ADHD and put on stimulant medication for years. Nobody connected the dots. He also had asthma, headaches, stomachaches, insomnia. Each doctor treated their one piece and ignored the rest. I did a full workup instead of writing another prescription. His gut microbiome was a mess. Leaky gut. Elevated gluten antibodies. Reacting to dairy. Fungal overgrowth. Low zinc, low magnesium, low B6, low folate, low omega 3s. Lead toxicity. He ate only processed food. Never a vegetable in his life. So we removed the gluten, dairy, sugar and processed food. Rebuilt his microbiome with probiotics. Treated the fungal overgrowth. Chelated the lead. Corrected the nutrient deficiencies with magnesium, zinc, fish oil. Two months later his mother brought him back. No more symptoms. No more meds. No more behavioral issues. And his handwriting went from illegible to perfect penmanship. Same kid, same brain, two months apart. That handwriting change is what made me write The UltraMind Solution. A brain that chaotic and disorganized became coherent and synchronized once we fixed what was happening in his body. The writing on the page was just a reflection of what was happening in his gut. ADHD is not a brain problem. It's a systemic problem that shows up in the brain. If your kid's brain isn't working right, don't just look north of the neck. Look at what's happening south of the border first.

The Cleveland Browns have not won a championship since 1964. The quarterback who won that one had a PhD in mathematics. And after he retired, he built the first electronic voting system the United States Congress ever used. December 27, 1964. The Browns were underdogs against the Baltimore Colts and Johnny Unitas, who was the best quarterback alive and about to be a Hall of Famer. Cleveland won 27-0. Shut them out. In a title game. Frank Ryan threw three touchdown passes to Gary Collins that afternoon. Jim Brown was in the backfield pulling every defender in Ohio toward him, and Ryan picked the rest of the field apart. That is still the last championship Cleveland has. Sixty-one years and counting. Now here is the other life he was living at the same time. Ryan was working on a doctorate in mathematics at Rice while he was starting at quarterback in the National Football League. He finished it in 1965, the year after the title. Not an honorary degree. Not a nice gesture from an alma mater. An actual PhD in math, earned during NFL seasons. He was a three-time Pro Bowler. He went 52-22-2 as a starter. He threw at least 25 touchdown passes in three different seasons, which in the 1960s was an enormous number. And he was doing something else that nobody in football was doing yet. Ryan was charting where defenders lined up and calculating which plays worked best against which alignments. He was building a predictive model out of index cards and film, decades before anybody used the word analytics in a football building. "The positions and locations of players on the other side, and which plays would have more success based on the information about where the defense lined up." That is a 1960s quarterback describing modern football. When he got to Washington in 1969, his head coach was Vince Lombardi. Lombardi did not tell him to knock it off and study the playbook. Lombardi gave him funding and computer equipment and told him to keep going. Ryan retired after the 1970 season. Then the math career took over completely. He taught at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland. He spent 10 years as the athletic director at Yale, where he also taught mathematics, because of course he did. And he became the director of information services for the United States House of Representatives. In that job he dragged Congress into the computer age. He helped develop the first electronic voting system the House ever had, the one that replaced clerks calling out 435 names one at a time. So the next time you see a vote tally flash up on a screen from the House floor, understand who helped build the thing underneath it. A Cleveland Browns quarterback. The honest part. Ryan spent his last years with Alzheimer's disease. His son confirmed the diagnosis. A man whose entire identity was built on the sharpest mathematical mind in the sport lost pieces of it at the end, and it is impossible to read that and not think about what the sport takes. He died on January 1, 2024, in a nursing home in Connecticut. He was 87. Cleveland has been waiting for another one since the day he walked off that field. Sixty-one years later, the last quarterback to do it is still a guy with a doctorate in mathematics and a seat in the history of American government. They do not make them like that anymore. They basically never did. For more stories like this, follow us on any platform @thesportsontap

Alexander Zverev just won the US Open, in his speech, he didn’t talk about tactics or ranking points, he talked about walking out of a doctor’s office at age 4 after being diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, and being told his life and sport would be “very, very limited.” His mother refused that script. “My son will be wherever he wants to be. This illness will not define us.” That single act of defiance, repeated over 25 years of insulin, early mornings, setbacks and doubt, produced a two-time Grand Slam champion. The most powerful limits are rarely the ones written in medical notes, they are the ones we quietly accept. Someone’s belief in you or your own refusal to accept a reduced version of your life, can change the entire trajectory. ❤️

Let this always be the answer

President Bush throws the first pitch of Game 3 of the 2001 World Series after 9/11 As silly as it sounds, it was important for him to throw a strike. No matter what you think of him, that was clutch/badass. Used the regulation rubber as well. Big time... 25 years later and I still think this is the greatest ceremonial first pitch ever

I reread this every year. I cry like a baby every year. Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero. Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked. Lisa: I understand. Can they see you? Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake. Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor. Lisa: Are you okay? Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again. Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true? Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan. Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call. Lisa: I promise. Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy. Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.) Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol. Todd: I understand. I’ll be back. Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot. Lisa: What are you going to do? Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out. Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.

Did you know this? ⬆️ The field of sociogenomics reveals how positive relationships influence gene expression, turning on genes that repair cells and turning off genes associated with inflammation and disease. When you experience love and connection, your body releases hormones like oxytocin and endorphins, which calm the nervous system, lower cortisol levels (the stress hormone), and promote anti-inflammatory pathways. These hormonal shifts signal your genes to activate cellular repair and longevity mechanisms. Even physical touch, like cuddling, can boost oxytocin and enhance your immune system. On the flip side, chronic stress, isolation, or conflict triggers the expression of pro-inflammatory genes, accelerating aging and increasing your risk of chronic illness. Love and connection are powerful for health and longevity.

Always great to welcome my former boss, friend and mentor, @TimRyan home - especially when it's keynoting our annual Hall of Fame dinner.