Well... the majority of my life (no meds at all until this year) has been a combination of periods of extremely high health standards.. surfing everyday, climbing on weekends, healthy diet.. combined with periods of no activity, crap diet, etc. The issues were there one way or the other. I've always thought that SOMETHING was missing in my brain. My intuition is to go with what the science says... which is that bipolar is both genetic and also due to a specific dysfunction in me noggin. I currently live on 10 acres of beautiful wilderness in the Northwoods, eat mostly food from our garden and nothing but real food. And right now... my brain is telling me something is missing again because I'm not all that happy right now. And I oughta be...