I’m Max and this is how I got here

The Cause

Let’s go back to 2017. I was wrapping up my last semester of college — a Bachelor’s in Aerospace Engineering — spending my days sending out job applications and dreaming of going to space in a Tesla (or at the very least, a rocket ship).

I was living in an old off-campus house with friends at the time. A few months in, I woke up one morning with a feeling I couldn’t shake: something was wrong. My fatigue was worsening, and the workouts I’d always leaned on weren’t happening anymore. I had no idea what was causing it — but a job offer in Minnesota ended up pulling me out of the environment that had been quietly wearing me down. A blessing I wouldn’t fully appreciate until much later.

My Trial and Error Phase

For the next six months, getting healthy became my full-time job. I saw specialist after specialist, each one sending me home with the same verdict: everything looks normal. At the time, it was maddening. Looking back, I don’t hold it against them — they were working within the limits of what they knew. But those limits weren’t enough to help me.

So there I was. Twenty-four years old, living back at my parents’ house, certified healthy by every expert I’d seen — and yet I didn’t have enough energy to shoot hoops with my little sister.

I did what anyone in that position would do: I fell down the Google rabbit hole. Hard. I cycled through over a hundred self-diagnoses, chasing answers wherever I could find them. That obsession eventually led me to supplements and every health tool I could get my hands on. Most of it went nowhere.

What worked for me? Detoxing. You can learn more about this here: Detox Guide

Finding Help and Getting Better

Eventually, I stopped going it alone and committed to more structured testing and professional support. What I’ve learned over the years is that chronic illness doesn’t have a simple answer — and anyone telling you it does probably hasn’t lived it. I’ve worked with more than 50 health practitioners, each bringing a different lens to the problem. A few who made a meaningful impact: Wendy Myers, Stephen Cabral, Dr. Irestone, and Destiny Pinkus Marson.

No single person had the full picture — but together, they helped me build it.

The goal of this blog is straightforward: to save you from the $100,000 worth of mistakes I made along the way, and to walk alongside as many people as possible on their own N=1 journey.

Cheers, Max Person