It’s that time of year again when we, regardless of our knowledge about the current state of College Basketball, fill out NCAA Tournament Brackets!  And one of the hilarious ironies of March Madness is that somebody’s aunt in backwoods Arkansas who makes her picks based on mascots and the color of uniforms will inevitably have a more accurate bracket than Charles Barkley or other pundits who prognosticate with religious fervor!

And although the “Perfect Bracket” is virtually impossible, there are many folks who select one of the Number 1 seeds as the eventual champion.  And with this approach, your bracket can have the Fighting Platypuses of Obscure, Mostly-Online University making it to the Sweet 16 but still pick the correct winner when all is said and done!

Similar to this phenomenon is what I call “Brecka-tology.”  You can have an incomplete and largely inaccurate perspective on the exact biochemical mechanisms that contribute to metabolic health.  But if you arrive at the conclusion of Sleep, Move, and Don’t Eat Garbage, you’ve probably got a winning bracket even if you’ve attributed most of the world’s problems to inadequate methylation or oxygen deprivation! 

I do think it’s ideal to do your homework on both NCAA Tournament Qualifiers and biochemistry in order to have the best chance of winning the Big Dance Bracket or the Tournament of Life. And criticism is certainly warranted if your bracket has the Apollo College Methylators defeating Duke in the first round. 

But regardless, hopefully you’re motivated by true altruism and not just the Company Pot or Bragging Rights. And hopefully you can have fun, get a few things right, and help people feel a little more like Champions if you correctly pick the ultimate winner!