06/20/2025
My dad died when I was 21.
Watching him die at 53 from something that should have been preventable was a turning point.
After his first stroke at 48, his doctor gave him medication and said “follow up in a few weeks.”
No discussion about his smoking, his drinking, no mention of exercise or lifestyle changes… nothing else was discussed.
He had another stroke. Then an aortic dissection that killed him.
Reality?
The system I was about to enter - pharmacy school - was the same system that failed my father.
It was designed to manage symptoms, not address root causes or prevent tragedies like his.
I was literally sitting in a field, praying about which pharmacy school to choose, when I heard a voice say “you’re not going to pharmacy school.”
That moment changed everything.
Instead, I discovered functional neurology.
My first case was a child with a genetic brain disorder who “should never develop normally.”
After a year of laser therapy on his brain, his medical neurologist said “this can’t be the same kid. We must have misdiagnosed.”
It wasn’t a misdiagnosis. It was what happens when you refuse to accept limitations.
Since then, I’ve worked with families from across the world. People who refuse to accept never.
And I made it my mission to help families who’ve hit the same walls I watched my dad hit because my prayer is that even just ONE case story I share will hopefully help to shorten your healing journey, make you feel a little less alone, a little less frustrated, a little less lost while navigating symptoms that conventional medicine will never get to the root cause of.
Share this if someone you love deserves better answers than ‘we don’t know what’s wrong’ 💙
