Everything Collapsed. The Rebuild Became the Blueprint.

This isn’t hyperbole.

It’s what it looked like when everything stopped working my body, my balance, and my cognitive function.

I went from racing Ironmans and ultramarathons, and building a long-term corporate career, to massive insomnia, panic attacks, depression, and crippling anxiety, living minute to minute, just hoping my body would come back.

What I teach now isn’t theory or branding.
It’s the system I used to rebuild myself, one step, one cell, one breath at a time.

My Story

I grew up “healthy.” Played Division 1 sports. Earned a finance degree. Worked hard, played hard. By 23, I got sober and stayed that way for more than 20 years.

I went all-in on health. I spent time at the Anne Wigmore Institute doing wheatgrass enemas, drank enzymes, sat in monasteries, and meditated at Zen Centers in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

I worked in the supplement industry teaching, selling, learning human biology from the inside out. I raced triathlons, finished full Ironmans in France and New Zealand, and placed in the top twenty of ultramarathons.

I had two amazing daughters, built a career in commercial real estate that brought recognition and pressure in equal measure.

From the outside, it looked like success.
Inside, I was quietly burning out.

The Collapse

COVID hit.
Commercial real estate collapsed, and so did I.

Years of overtraining, overworking, and ignoring warning signs finally caught up with me. My nervous system gave out.

The first sign was brutal: ten straight days without sleep. I was wired, terrified, trapped in a loop of anxiety, depression, and dread until I was delirious.

Doctors handed me prescriptions to keep going, stimulants, sedatives, mood stabilizers. I even turned to psychoactive empathogens, anything that might help me feel like myself again. Instead, my brain chemistry disintegrated.

Then my body followed.
I broke my shoulder. My hip was replaced from inflammation. Over fifty dental visits for nerve damage and infection.

For a while, life was stripped down to the basics. My finances, my body, my mind, all of it came crashing down.

Some mornings, getting up was the win.
And for a while, that was enough.

The Awakening

One morning I realized that if I wanted to live, I had to figure it out myself.

So I started studying everything root-cause medicine, detoxification, neuroscience, trauma, inflammation. I read hundreds of books, listened to lectures while I walked, and filled journals with notes.

I tried it all: hypnosis, EMDR, acupuncture, ozone, vitamin IV's, energy work, fasting, cold plunges, saunas, shadow work. I even enrolled at King’s College London to study applied neuroscience, desperate to understand the science of the brain.

But I didn’t heal by thinking.
I healed by doing, by giving my body what it needed in the right order: sleep, hydration, detox, movement, breath, discipline, and forgiveness.

Slowly, clarity returned.
Then peace.
Then strength.

The Rebuild

It took years. I rebuilt my body molecule by molecule, system by system.

I learned how inflammation hijacks the brain, how toxins short-circuit the nervous system, and how real healing begins when you remove what doesn’t belong, physically and emotionally.

Out of that came the 12-Week Brain & Nervous System Reset.
Not a business plan. A survival map.

A framework born from necessity:

• Regulate the nervous system

• Open detox pathways and repair the gut-liver axis

• Restore brain energy and rebuild identity

It’s the exact system I used to go from broken to next level mode, with clarity, vitality, and agency restored.

The Mission

I didn’t build Ilios Health to profit.
I built it because I found a way of life that’s is amazing, and you can too.

This is for anyone stuck between burnout and breakdown.
For those who’ve tried everything and still wake up anxious, disconnected, or empty.

There is a way out.
It’s not fast.
It’s not easy.
But it’s real.

The same system that broke you can be rebuilt, stronger once you learn to work with it, not against it.

From Survivor to Creator

Today, I wake up clear.
I’m present with my family.
I train, teach, and serve from a place of peace, not pressure and I love it.

I’m not who I was.
I’m living beyond what I thought was possible with clarity, vitality, and agency restored.

Not because I avoided the darkness, but because I went through it.

And if you’re reading this wondering whether you can change,
you can.
You can rebuild too.