The day my face swelled shut and I landed in the hospital, I stopped feeling like the “indestructible” doctor and started feeling like a patient who was genuinely scared. That experience, plus years of asthma, eczema, chronic hives, and exercise-triggered angioedema, forced me to confront something I had ignored for too long: health is not just prescriptions and procedures. It’s the daily inputs, the stress, the sleep, the food, and the habits we repeat when nobody’s watching.

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