From symptoms to solutions
I thought beating H. pylori would be the end of the story. Instead, I found myself making repeated ER visits for chest pains, unexplained symptoms, and a metabolism that stalled.
I scoured Discord channels and Reddit communities, reading how others experimented with supplements, peptides, and nootropics. I started tracking my own responses to different foods, diet tweaks, sleep patterns, and mood swings.
Before long, friends were texting me for the exact protocols I was running and the dietary changes that gave me small wins. I wasn't a doctor or a scientist yet they trusted my straightforward account of what worked and what failed.
To keep my experiments from disappearing into scattered messages, I built MitoMode as my personal lab notebook. There, I logged protocols I came across and deep dives into topics from microbiome balance to cellular energy.
But as the questions piled up, it became clear that a log book alone could not harness the value of these self-experiments. We needed:
- A shared playbook
- Trusted sources for compounds
- A way to pool our data into something real
That insight sparked Karyon DAO. Here, every trial follows a clear protocol, uses verified supply, and feeds into a collective dataset. This is where community-powered research turns n=1 trials into n=∞ discoveries for the future of health.