Hi, salam, I’ve always found it strange that we’re expected to live in our bodies without ever being handed a manual. Your body changes, your mind bends, your energy rises and falls, and through it all, the world still expects you to perform—to eat well, to move right, to stay calm, to keep up. We are told to “optimise,” but not too much. To be strong, but also soft. To stay balanced, but keep climbing. So this is The Aufthority—a blog about trying to live well in a body that is both astonishing and unreliable. It’s about what happens when you examine health not just as a destination, but as a story you’re telling every day with your choices, your habits, your cravings, your rest. I am Auf Ali. My degree says I'm a chemist and my CV says I not only work in the healthcare industry, but I also live it—imperfectly—as a parent, a runner of hills, a lifter of sandbags, a person navigating this confusing and beautiful experience of having a body in the 21st century. Here, I wr...