I am a physician scientist living in the San Francisco Bay area with decades of experience in neuroscience and immunology and over 100 scientific and news articles in top-rated journals as Nature and Lancet, also a veteran of the biopharmaceutical industry. I have always been interested on how the interaction of the mind with the nervous and immune systems affects our wellbeing, especially anxiety.

When my fast-paced life was rocked with painful events affecting two close family members, I questioned everything about my life while developing unbearable levels of anxiety. I realized that my approach to life had to change, starting a search for meaning.

I had high-performing anxiety, always on edge, eager to add checkmarks to my personal and professional to-do and bucket lists. Possessions, vacations, entertainment were transitory fixes, "trivial pursuits." I was not a true caregiver for key people in my life. I was not taking proper care of my emotional and physical needs.

I gave myself this prescription: Stop doing. Let it be. Let it go. Less is more. That's when I decided to address my anxiety reflecting deeply, looking for answers inside myself, returning to my roots as a young doctor passionate for psycho neuro immunology and integrative medicine, unearthing the best or Western and Eastern medical practices.