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It isn't a memoir. It isn't a how-to. It's an honest reckoning with what this work takes from you - and what remains long after the sirens stop. After more than two decades in emergency medical services, JP Adym started paying attention to something that doesn't get talked about in training: the weight you carry that never goes back in the bag. The calls that stay. The moments you can't explain. The version of yourself that comes home different and never quite goes back. What Stays is a first responder's meditation on what the job does to a person over the long run. Not clinically. Not in bullet points. In the honest, spare language of someone who lived it - shift after shift, year after year - and finally sat down to say what it was actually like. This book doesn't offer a fix. It offers something harder and more useful: recognition. You've been carrying this. You're not alone in that. And the weight - the real weight - is proof you were there, that it mattered, and that you gave something real to something that asked everything of you. For every first responder who has ever finished a shift and couldn't explain why it followed them home. What stays isn't a burden. It's a life. Yours. J.P. Adym is a veteran paramedic, field training officer, and 911 dispatcher with over 22 years of frontline EMS experience. He is the founder of the Responder Fuel Project - a wellness system built to protect the long-term health, resilience, and well-being of first responders and their families.

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JP Adym is a veteran paramedic, field training officer, and 911 dispatcher with over 22 years of frontline experience in emergency medical services. After decades of long shifts, fast food, high stress, and sleep deprivation, he experienced firsthand how the job can take a toll on both physical and mental health. Through his journey of recovery and renewal, JP discovered the power of nutrition-not just as a tool for weight loss, but as a critical form of fuel for resilience, performance, and long-term health. His mission now is to bring practical, no-BS nutrition strategies to the first responder community, one meal at a time. In Code Green Fuel, JP combines lived experience with realistic solutions that work in the chaos of EMS, firehouses, police stations, dispatch centers, and correctional posts. This isn't theory-it's field-tested guidance from someone who's been there. JP lives in New York with his family, where he continues to write, teach, and advocate for responder wellness. When he's not creating new shake recipes or responding to reader questions, he can usually be found hiking, making his kid laugh, or working on his next book.

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