I got here the slow way.

My doctorate is in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Cornell. The research applied thermodynamics to both mechanical systems and human biology: how energy moves through a system, what it has to dissipate, and what happens when that accounting stops balancing.

Before any of that, I played Division I golf. Then I was diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis, with radiographic bilateral sacroiliitis. For a stretch I walked with a cane. The path on offer was TNF-α inhibitors and IL-17 blockers, meaning management indefinitely, and nobody was especially interested in the question I couldn’t stop asking, which was why.

So I went at it the way I’d been trained to. I worked alongside osteopathic and functional medicine clinicians, took coursework in functional immunology, and stopped looking for a single culprit. Instead I broke the body into three interacting systems (neuro-endocrine function, the intestinal-immune axis, and detox pathways) and worked on them in an order that let me actually attribute the result.

The things that moved my case were reducing pathogen burden, so mitigating mold exposure, addressing gut dysbiosis, and restoring mitochondrial function. A year later I had reached clinical remission, documented with post-treatment MRI. I wrote it up as a case report and submitted it to The Journal of Immunology.

I want to be precise about what that is: one case, mine, not a controlled trial. It doesn’t establish that the same approach works for anyone else, which is exactly why I teach the method instead of selling an outcome.

My mission is to ignite curiosity in people who are suffering and give them enough of the underlying science to take charge of their own health, including being harder to sell to. Me included.