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A Cancer Biologist’s Guide to Financial Success – and Living Systems
What if you could analyze investments like a cancer biologist analyzes cells?
I’m Zach, a computational cancer biologist who translates complex mathematical models into practical investment strategies, physiology books, and health tracking tools. Using principles from biological systems, I help you build portfolios – and bodies – that adapt, survive, and thrive.
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“This is the first time someone explained portfolio risk in a way that makes sense. The biological metaphors clicked instantly.”
If you’re new here, take a breath.
This site is not about predictions, hot picks, or hype. It exists to help you think clearly about money – and about living systems – using the same mathematical principles used to study complex biology.
You do not need an advanced math background. Everything here builds intuition first. Formulas come later, if at all.
Math doesn’t predict the future – it helps you survive it.
The Mathematics of
the Living Body
Volume 1: Cardiovascular Physiology
A rigorous companion text that derives every equation in cardiovascular physiology from its molecular biology. Every chapter opens with named proteins and cellular mechanisms. Every equation is labelled: core principle, useful approximation, or known limit. Every worked example reports a range, not a single number.
How This Site Works
- Markets are treated as living systems, not machines
- Risk is something to design around, not eliminate
- Long-term survival matters more than short-term prediction
- Math is used as a thinking tool, not a trading signal
- Physiology and finance share the same feedback architecture
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๐งฌ Why Learn From a Cancer Biologist?
Traditional investing advice treats markets as mechanical systems. But markets are alive – they adapt, evolve, and respond to stress just like biological organisms. My background in computational cancer biology gives me a unique lens: I analyze portfolios the same way I analyze cellular systems, looking for resilience, growth signals, and immune responses to market threats. The same framework now drives the physiology books, the BioFlywheel newsletter, and the health trackers. Biology is the unifying language.
๐ฐ Latest Articles & Insights
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Understanding Black Swans and Cancer: A Systems Perspective
Black Swans, Broken Mitochondria, and Reinforced Behaviors: Three Theories Every Systems Thinker Should Know Three frameworks Nassim Talebโs Black Swan theory, the metabolic theory of cancer, and Damon Centolaโs complex contagion arose in entirely different fields. Yet together they form a quiet rebellion against the same intellectual habit: the assumption that complicated outcomes follow from simple, linear causes. One comes from finance. One from cell biology. One from network sociology. Read them in isolation and they are interesting. Read them together and a single insight emerges.
Dave Ramsey’s 4-Fund Portfolio: Grow Your Wealth Simply
A simple investment strategy that emphasizes growth and diversification through four different types of mutual funds or ETFs, designed for long-term returns.
Tokenization: The Future of Global Finance Explained
The actual revolution is happening in the plumbing. What happens to your stocks, bonds, real estate, and commodities when they all become tokens on blockchain rails?
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๐ฑ I’m New to Investing
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๐ฟ I Invest, But Want Better Structure
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๐ณ I Like Systems & Deep Thinking
Explore biological and mathematical frameworks applied to physiology, investing, and health.
๐งฌ Biological Systems Tools
My signature tools that apply cancer biology principles to portfolio management:
Portfolio Immune System Analyzer
Diagnose your portfolio’s resilience using biological defense principles – inspired by how immune systems survive stress.
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Build self-reinforcing investment systems that compound like cellular growth. Calculate momentum effects in your wealth-building strategy.
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Practice with games, quizzes, and simulations designed to build mathematical intuition for investing decisions.
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Books
Print and ebook titles connected to your systems-thinking framework.
Stoic Investing: Stability Under Market Stress
An annotated edition of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations
18 parts covering drawdown discipline, noise and narrative, time horizon, and the Stability Score framework.
The Algorithm of Life
BioFlywheel Series
A mathematical systems framework applying the governing algorithms of biological life – homeostasis, feedback control, and adaptive stability – to the design of a resilient financial and personal life.
Connected Health
Mathematical frameworks for personal health optimization
Applies BioFlywheel systems thinking to personal health – connecting biomarker trends, lifestyle inputs, and long-term outcomes through mathematical frameworks grounded in clinical evidence.
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Downloadable tools and workbooks for discipline, tracking, and decision-making.
Stoic Investing: Stability Reflection Workbook
Companion to the annotated Meditations
18 modules in investor discipline and behavioral analysis built around the Stability Score framework. Not a journal – a system.
Math-Optimized Life Dashboard
A quantitative health ledger for the long game
Track 18+ biomarkers with a slope formula that tells you whether each metric is rising, falling, or stable.
Health Trackers
Structured health planning tools built for measurable progress over time.
DASH Diet Math Planner
NIH/NHLBI ยท #1 Heart-Healthy Diet 2025
Weekly compliance scorer with auto-slope. Links diet compliance to blood pressure outcomes. Reduces systolic BP by 5.5 mmHg.
Diabetes Prevention Tracker
NIH/NIDDK ยท 58% diabetes risk reduction
Tracks the two NIH DPP goals – 7% weight loss and 150 min/week activity – with auto-computed slopes.
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Each NFT represents a key principle from the cancer biology approach to investing – focused on structure, rules, and long-term discipline over predictions.
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Portfolio-Level Position Sizing
How to scale positions based on portfolio signals – a biological approach to allocation.
Temporal Dynamics of Resilience
Why robust systems outlast clever trades – lessons from cancer adaptation.
Systems Beat Predictions
Mathematical evidence: disciplined systems outperform accurate forecasts.
Every mint supports research and content creation that bridges cancer biology and financial education.
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๐ข External Mathematical Resources
- The Bright Side of Mathematics – Comprehensive math topics and tutorials
“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”
– Albert Einstein
“Currently developing a comprehensive book proposal exploring how mathematical thinking transforms everyday decision-making – Advanced Mathematics for Everyday Thinking: How to Think Clearly, Calmly, and Wisely in a Complex World – with interest from UTA Literary Agency. Also the author of The Mathematics of the Living Body series, now available via Amazon, IngramSpark, and Draft2Digital.”
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