My Book

Introduction

The Practice of Using Cellulose

To say “cellulose user” may sound unusual, but the phrase reflects a deliberate shift in perspective. Instead of viewing plants only as nutrient carriers for the human body, I began to view cellulose as infrastructure for the intestinal ecosystem. Ingesting plants became less about extracting molecules and more about maintaining the physical conditions in which the biome operates.

My book is not a medical manual and not a diet program. It is a set of reflections, experiences, and observations gathered over time. The ideas come from personal experimentation, from reading, from watching the body carefully, and from thinking about the relationship between humans and the microscopic world that inhabits us.

The chapters draw from a series of small essays written over the years — on the body and mind, on fasting, on the brain, on yoga, on pets, on the nature of being human, and on the possibility that caring for the biome may be one of the central responsibilities of human life.

Taken together they form a simple memoir: the story of someone who decided to take cellulose seriously.