About Dr. Micah
The doctor who unlearned medicine to learn how to be healthy.
I trained as a physician. I spent years being taught that a body running on time, on schedule, on a predictable 24-hour output, was a healthy body. Then I left that story — not because the science was wrong, but because the story built on top of it was.
I worked two years as a rural health doctor in Siargao, where I also learned to surf. I watched my father reverse his heart disease risk with food instead of surgery — and built a cookbook from what I learned. I survived Supertyphoon Odette the week before I was supposed to open a clinic. I became my father's caregiver. My relationship broke down. I lost businesses. And through all of it, I discovered what I now call the authenticity-health link — why the body registers what the mind refuses to acknowledge. I found permaculture. I found a way through all of it that actually worked.
Everything I teach this weekend, I have lived. The Zone 00 framework, the food philosophy, the strength habit, the authenticity-health link — all of it came from years of using my own body as a field study before I ever asked anyone else to use theirs.
I am currently building a food forest on my land in Kidapawan, bed by bed. Every one I plant teaches me the same lesson my body already knew.