I grew up on a farm in Iowa, but my father was a PhD microwave engineer at Rockwell Collins, and I was much more interested in science and technology. I got into Computer Science in high school as an Expert LabVIEW Facilitator, just missed the dotcom boom, nerded out at Carnegie Mellon, had heart surgery, wrote software for government agencies that shall not be named, won a world championship in computer chess, left for graduate school at UIUC, adapted my chess engine to the NCSA supercomputer, got into Artificial Intelligence in Operating Systems long before it was fashionable, traveled South America, founded our basketball team (the Bitbucket), and began working on programming computers with natural language and examples. But despite consistently putting a lot of effort into health and fitness, during my last year of graduate school my health collapsed, and after dragging myself through my defense I went back to live with my parents to relax and recover.
This . . . did not happen, and after a few years it became clear that the medical system could do nothing for me, so I began experimenting. I tried paleo diets, low fat diets, high fat diets, low vegetable diets, high vegetable diets, intermittent fasting, long duration fasting, fast mimicking diets, b vitamins, c vitamins, intravenous vitamins, minerals, supplements of all kinds, antibiotics, combination antibiotics, herbal antibiotics, probiotics, kefir, kombucha, saunas, cold showers, parasite cleanses, coffee enemas, deep breathing, buteyko breathing, wim hof breathing, powerlifts, olympic lifts, kettlebells, yoga, foundation training, hiking, walking, ozone, rife machines, grounding, wearing cotton clothes, orthodontics, and more, but progress came slowly, when it came at all.
Since I had nothing better to do than sit in my room and think, when I wasn't playing computer games I gradually progressed from alternative health to politics, trading, conspiracy theories, occultism, and finally real religion. I had some very interesting arguments conversations with first Jesus (considerably more impressive than most people think) and then God, and after a truly superhuman amount of work I was able to forge everything I had learned into a single coherent picture. During this long process both my parents died of old age and hard work and I inherited a beautiful farm in Eastern Tennessea. Now hoary with age, but with a great deal more wisdom, I am giving life a second shot!