What if the most important thing about competing had nothing to do with the score?

Emma Allen grew up with a tennis racket in her hand and a philosophy professor for a father, which turns out to be a combination that changes everything about how you approach a game, a loss, a career, and a life. She competed professionally, traveled with her father and brother as her coaching team, and learned something that most competitors never do. The joy is in the gritty incremental growth, not the result. She describes feeling greedy for it.

That career was derailed by injury. And what happened next is where this conversation gets genuinely surprising.

Emma found her way to osteopathic medicine, discovered the profound impact of removing dairy, gluten, and processed sugar from her diet, and never had another sinus infection in her life. Sh ...