Jack holds a Master’s in Integrative Medicine from Georgetown University. His advanced trainings include:
• Functional Blood Chemistry Analysis
• Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis
• Nutrition Response Testing
• Bioresonance Therapy


My Story
By age 24, I was chronically sick. I was experiencing severe anxiety, brain fog and fatigue. 
 

In my six-year health journey, I worked with many different practitioners—ranging from conventional doctors to energy healers. At the beginning, the focus was on Lyme disease. This made sense: I was bitten by a tick, and symptoms followed weeks later. Multiple rounds of antibiotics, however, left me no better.

From there, I researched mold illness, which seemed to fit even closer to the mark. I had moved into a water-damaged apartment around the same time as the tick bite, and I read that many people diagnosed with Lyme disease are actually suffering from undiagnosed mold illness. I went to great lengths to leave my moldy apartment, began treatment for mold exposure, and still felt no better.

As the pandemic approached, new problems emerged. Beyond crippling anxiety and fatigue, I now had significant gut issues. I dug deeper into research and discovered candida, parasites, and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. I became fascinated with holistic health and the idea that the body could heal naturally. Yet despite my growing knowledge, I had little success to show for it. I was chronically fatigued, my clarity was poor, and everything in life felt difficult. Meanwhile, I spent tens of thousands of dollars on treatments I didn’t fully understand—treatments that didn’t seem to address the root cause.

I began to question. Why was it that I had been bitten by ticks in childhood and never developed chronic illness then? Why do many people get tick bites and never become chronically ill? Why did some of the people who lived in moldy apartments with me remain symptom-free? Genetics may play a role, but it didn’t feel like the full story. My health crisis didn’t begin with a tick bite at 23, it began much earlier. 

I learned that toxicity and depletion accumulate through generations. Studies from the Environmental Working Group show that hundreds of neurotoxic and carcinogenic chemicals can be found in umbilical cord blood, passed from mother to child. Our soils are profoundly depleted of minerals, and so our bodies inherit that depletion. Add in the modern medical culture of overprescribed medications—like the 15+ courses of antibiotics I took growing up—and I began to see how my microbiome and energy production had been weakened long before Lyme or mold ever entered the picture.

With what I know now. I wasn’t as healthy in my childhood as I could have been. I required lots of sleep (10-12 hours), had a pale complexion and had large bags under my eyes.  I also had allergies, dandruff and acne. I was unaware that I was just a few stressful events away from significant health problems. 

Lyme and mold were triggers, but I chased them as if they were the ultimate explanations, the holy grail diagnoses that would unlock my healing. They weren’t. What I needed was to rebuild my body at a deeper level. I eventually left the disease and diagnosis paradigm and focused on health. Instead of continually asking “what is wrong with me?”, I finally relaxed into a very powerful belief system. There was nothing inherently wrong with me and I was not broken or defective. My illness was the result of stress, toxicity and deficiencies. All of my symptoms were my bodies attempt to heal or compensate under stress. 

Through the help of amazing mentors and educators, I finally began to tap into a system of healing that actually made intuitive sense in my body.

To start, I realized that healing is an uphill battle until the nervous system feels safe. I needed to understand where I was leaking energy, not just physically, but mentally and emotionally. Second, I needed to heal my gut. I spent so much money on supplements and treatments that didn’t directly improve my gut health and digestion. This was a huge mistake. Then I needed to detox…and detox… and detox again. It’s a word that gets thrown around quite a bit, but my personal experience revealed the truth of what many of my mentors preached – most illness results from a buildup of metabolic wastes and toxins.  

But the problem with certain forms of detox I had tried (water fasting…juice cleanses…), is that that they interfere with rule #1 → the nervous system needs to feel safe. I eventually learned more sophisticated forms of detox that don’t overly stress the body and slowly, but surely, my brain and body began to come back online. Somewhere along the way, I discovered mineral balancing which was another foundational pillar to my healing and a key to bringing me out of chronic burnout. It was at this point where I not only felt disease leaving me but I began accessing levels of health that were profound. 

A deep sense of ease and peace through my body. Feeling joyful for no reason. Feeling more loving and compassionate towards people. Discovering that I am not actually shy or reserved, I am actually extroverted and outgoing. It has all led to a realization that my problems didn’t begin when I first became sick. I was dealing with suboptimal health from a young age due to growing up in a stressful and toxic modern world. And the biggest realization of all was the knowing that I was blessed to go through the experience of illness at a young age. As one of my mentors says, “illness is an invitation”. It’s an opportunity. If one is a willing participant, they can expect profound transformation and growth on the other side.