Built by Patients for Patients.

I’d always been an active child. On the go, adventurous, fiercely disciplined and determined. Aside from back spasms and neck pain after a near neck-break experience, a strange rash that appeared every winter, and intense abdominal pain starting at 13, I didn’t take note of pain or health.

So how did a girl who lived a pretty normal life, had a normal family, and felt mostly normal, end up with this list of diagnoses by her early 30’s?

• CIRS, Mold Toxicity
• Lyme Disease and coinfections
• Thoracic outlet Syndrome (TOS)
• Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS)
• Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)
• Dysautonomia/ POTS symptoms
• Endometriosis
• Chronic Fatigue
• Chronic Pain
• Small nerve neuropathy

It started slowly soon into college. Burning constant pain that ended my career as a professional piano performer. Thoracic Outlet Syndrome. From it depression, severe nutrient depletion, and anorexia — not purposefully, but because the only thing I knew how to do with pain was push harder. I traveled internationally, came back very ill, and kept going anyway. Doctors ran labs, shrugged, and said IBS. Take a Pepcid.

I fell asleep at the wheel twice. Three concussions. I became a full-time chef, traveling the world and winning competitions — building a career around food I could barely eat. Crushing chest pain, migraines on every flight, and more than once I found myself lying flat on the pavement at high-profile cooking events, nearly passed out. Something was seriously wrong, and no one could tell me what.

Then we moved into our dream home. And my health completely collapsed.

I was crawling on the floor, unable to walk. Even water made me nauseous. Then we found black mold. A lot of it. Daily migraines. Partial seizures. Tremors. My husband had to hold me up to walk. Half my face went numb. My body felt like it was being stabbed by thousands of tiny needles. I begged for a specialist. My PCP — without seeing me — ordered therapy sessions.

I wanted to give up. Instead, I started searching for answers myself.

I tried everything. Every functional protocol, every diet. One hundred percent organic, the cleanest lifestyle imaginable, every supplement any practitioner recommended. I saw over twenty doctors and specialists. I spent tens of thousands of dollars. I would get a little better, then crash all over again. My body had become so sensitive that even helpful interventions left me bedridden. I stopped working. My social life disappeared.

Over the following years I healed my gut, survived endometriosis surgery, became a certified Integrative Nutritional Health Coach, moved to a sunny climate, and studied nutrition from Stanford.

Yet my health declined again. Lyme disease. Heart inflammation. Palpitations, near-syncopy, crushing fatigue.

Then came the breakthrough I never asked for — a severe reaction to gadolinium during a cardiac MRI. Terrifying. And the moment everything finally clicked. Even in those dark hours of anaphylaxis symptoms, wheel chair and MCAS on hyperdrive, God was working it for good.

Doctors had identified many pieces: TOS, endometriosis, parasites, Lyme, mold illness, concussions, environmental toxicity. But no one had connected them. Chronic underlying MCAS, severe dysautonomia, and hEDS were the missing peices. But not just the diagnoses, but rather the genetics and autonomic nervous system that were severely compromised.

Functional medicine says find the root cause. And then it points to mold, or heavy metals, gut bacteria, etc. But those are just deeper triggers. The actual root cause is deeper yet: genetics and the nervous system. The genetic blueprint that determines how your body is able to handle those triggers in the first place. When practitioners push aggressive detox protocols on people whose genetics prevent them from detoxifying, they are adding fire to the problem using blueprints built for someone else. This massively affects the autonomic nervous system–a body filled with toxic overload begins to shut down, trying to protect itself, but ultimately blocks it from being able to heal.

No one should have to go through this, which is why I created The Health Konnector.

My journey cost tens of thousands of dollars, countless tears, and years of searching. But God used it all. The Health Konnector was born so others do not have to spend years wondering, wasting money, full of anxiety and chronic pain.