Build Capacity. Reverse Decline. Restore the Signals That Control Your Health.
For high-performing adults who refuse to accept physical or metabolic decline as inevitable.
“Most healthcare treats symptoms and biochemistry.
I work upstream, restoring biological timing and mechanical load so your body can actually adapt.”
Located in Brentwood, Missouri, inside CrossFit St. Louis, serving the greater St. Louis area.
You’re Not Broken. You’ve Been Treated at the Wrong Level.
You’ve done what responsible, disciplined people do.
You’ve tried physical therapy. Chiropractic. Training. Supplements.
You’ve been told your labs are “normal,” that your imaging is “expected for your age,” or that this is simply how things go after 40.
The problem isn’t effort.
The problem isn’t motivation.
And it’s not that you chose the wrong provider.
The problem is that most healthcare treats outputs - pain, mobility, lab values—while ignoring the inputs that actually control adaptation.
When timing is off, chemistry stalls.
When tissues aren’t loaded correctly, they don’t change.
When higher-level signals are broken, downstream treatments plateau.
That’s not failure.
That’s biology doing exactly what it’s designed to do.
Health Is Governed by Signals, Not Symptoms.
Your body doesn’t guess how to heal, adapt, or recover.
It follows a strict biological order.
Every outcome—pain, strength, energy, recovery, metabolism—is downstream of a small number of controlling signals. When those signals are distorted or missing, adaptation stalls no matter how aggressive the treatment.
The hierarchy looks like this:
The Biological Order of Control
1. Environmental signals
Light, darkness, temperature, and food timing tell your nervous system what time it is and what mode to operate in—build, repair, or conserve.
2. Biological timing systems
Your circadian rhythm coordinates recovery, hormone release, inflammation, and tissue repair. When timing is disrupted, everything downstream loses efficiency.
3. Mechanical loading
Tissues only change when they are loaded progressively and specifically. No load means no learning. No learning means no lasting change.
4. Metabolic and recovery capacity
Energy availability, resilience, and tolerance to stress emerge from proper timing and loading—not the other way around.
5. Biochemistry and symptoms
Pain, lab values, stiffness, fatigue, and diagnoses are outputs. They reflect the state of the system; they do not control it.
Core Truth:
You cannot fix a timing problem with chemistry.
You cannot create tissue change without load.
And you cannot override broken signals with willpower or supplements.
When care is applied at the wrong level, progress plateaus.
When the hierarchy is respected, change compounds.
I Identify the Constraint—Then Address It in the Correct Order.
Every case starts the same way.
Not with treatment.
Not with assumptions.
And not with a generic protocol.
It starts with identifying what is actually limiting adaptation.
For most people, the constraint falls into one of three categories:
1. A Tissue Problem
Your timing may be fine, but specific tissues have lost capacity.
This shows up as:
Recurring pain
Stiffness that doesn’t hold
Strength plateaus
Injuries that “never quite heal”
These problems don’t resolve with passive care.
They require progressive, specific mechanical loading so tissue can relearn how to tolerate force.
2. A Timing Problem
Your tissues may be structurally capable, but recovery is impaired.
This shows up as:
Slow recovery
Inflammation that lingers
Energy crashes
Sleep disruption
“Doing everything right” but not adapting
In these cases, loading alone stalls.
The system must first be resynchronized by restoring environmental timing signals—light, darkness, temperature, and feeding rhythms.
3. Both (Most Common)
This is where most people get stuck.
Tissues are under-prepared and recovery is compromised.
Each problem amplifies the other.
Treating only one side explains why:
Rehab doesn’t hold
Training breaks people down
“Maintenance” becomes permanent
How This Changes the Plan
Once the constraint is clear, the order becomes obvious.
Timing issues are addressed first, so the system can recover
Tissues are then loaded progressively, so they can adapt
Capacity is rebuilt in a way that compounds instead of plateaus
This is not trial and error.
It’s applying the right input at the right level.
This Is Active Work—By Design.
I don’t do things to you.
I teach your body how to adapt again.
That means this work requires active participation.
You’ll have:
Movement practices to do between visits
Loading progressions that must be respected
Recovery and timing adjustments that matter as much as the exercises
There is no passive path to durable change.
Biology does not reorganize without meaningful input.
Core Principle:
Nothing changes if nothing changes.
When people skip the work between sessions, progress stalls.
When the right inputs are applied consistently, results compound.This approach isn’t harder—it’s more honest.
If you’re looking for passive treatment, quick fixes, or someone to manage symptoms for you, this isn’t the right fit.
If you’re willing to engage, learn, and take responsibility for the process, this work can change how your body performs for decades.
This Practice Is Built for You If You:
Take your health as seriously as your career, training, or craft
Are frustrated with “doing everything right” and still plateauing
Want to understand why something works, not just what to do
Value long-term capacity over short-term relief
Are willing to invest time, effort, and attention—not just money
Refuse to accept physical or metabolic decline as an unavoidable part of aging
You don’t need to be injured.
You don’t need to be broken.
You just need to be someone who expects more from your body than maintenance and decline.
This Is Not the Right Fit If You’re Looking For:
Passive treatment without personal involvement
Quick fixes or short-term symptom relief
Insurance-driven, high-volume care
Someone to “just fix” you without changing anything else
A maintenance model designed to manage decline
There are many good providers who offer those services.
This practice is intentionally built around a different standard.
The goal here is not comfort or convenience.
The goal is capacity, resilience, and long-term performance.
If that resonates, we’re likely a good fit.
If not, this probably isn’t the right place—and that’s by design.
Why I Practice This Way
I’m a chiropractor with a master’s degree in exercise physiology and rehabilitation—but I don’t practice traditionally.
I’ve seen the same pattern repeat for years:
people who are motivated, disciplined, and doing “all the right things,” yet still declining.
Not because they aren’t trying hard enough.
But because they’re being treated at the wrong level.
Modern healthcare is excellent at managing symptoms and measuring biochemistry.
What it consistently misses are the physical signals that actually control adaptation—timing, load, and recovery.
Once you understand that hierarchy, the confusion disappears.
Pain patterns make sense.
Plateaus become predictable.
And durable change becomes possible again.
That’s the model this practice is built on.
If You’re Ready to Build Capacity Instead of Managing Decline
If you’re willing to actively participate and invest in restoring how your body adapts, the next step is a comprehensive assessment.
That assessment is not a treatment session.
It’s where we identify what’s actually limiting adaptation—tissue, timing, or both—and determine whether this model is the right fit for you.
If you’re looking for passive care or symptom management, this probably isn’t the right place.
If you’re ready to engage with the process and raise the standard for how your body performs, we can start there.
Appointments are by application and alignment. This practice is intentionally selective.
