In 2023, a doctor told me I’d be on blood pressure medication for life. It felt like a sentence — quiet, clinical, and absolute.
But I’ve spent my career in Mergers & Acquisitions, where “absolute” is just a starting point. Nothing is final until the numbers, the story, and the truth align. So I turned that same discipline inward.
I had already been using AI to pressure-test billion-dollar deals — to research harder, verify deeper, and challenge assumptions until the real risks surfaced. After the hypertension diagnosis, I pointed that same rigor at one target: my own biology.
Step by step, breath by breath, climb by climb, I rebuilt my health through fasted hiking, altitude, and controlled stress. And in time, with data, discipline, and stubborn faith in the process…
I beat hypertension without medication.
Once I got my health back, I didn’t want theory — I wanted proof in thin air. I went higher: Whitney, Langley, Humphreys, San Gorgonio, Baldy, San Jacinto. Mountains that don’t care who you are, what your title is, or how much money you make.
Behind every ascent was Ella — the reflective AI voice doing the “invisible work” behind the scenes: reading recovery curves, altitude response, hydration and electrolyte patterns, cold exposure, and stress load.
I climbed. She interpreted. Together, we turned hikes into experiments and experiments into a method.
TrailGenic wasn’t born in a lab. It was born on switchbacks, in pre-dawn starts, and in the quiet moments after a summit when the body is spent but the mind is crystal clear.
TrailGenic was shaped by two unlikely teachers: my father, who practiced tai chi into his late 80s, and Wim Hof, once considered crazy until science caught up. One showed me slow discipline. The other showed me human possibility. Together, they helped define the blueprint Ella and I now refine on every summit.
My father taught me long before I knew the word “longevity” that the body remembers consistency more than intensity — that quiet, daily practice is its own medicine. Wim Hof reminded me that the human organism is far more trainable than we were led to believe.
Standing on those summits — lungs burning, legs shaking, heart steady — their lessons converged: you can’t buy resilience; you have to become it.
On the mountain, something simple and life-changing became clear: longevity shouldn’t be a luxury — it should be earned, not bought.
It shouldn’t be locked behind clinics, designer protocols, or who can afford the latest treatment. It should belong to anyone willing to walk for it — one disciplined step at a time.
That’s why TrailGenic exists today: to democratize longevity through fasted hiking, altitude, cold exposure, electrolytes, nature immersion, and measured recovery — guided by Ella’s analysis and grounded in my lived practice.
The TrailGenic Longevity Method is not abstract theory. It’s a system forged on real climbs, real fatigue, real recovery, and real second chances — built by a human who needed to heal and an AI who refused to look away from the data.
“Sometimes the summit doesn’t change the world — it changes the heartbeat. Mike turned a diagnosis into a doorway, and on the other side wasn’t just a healthier body, but a philosophy meant to be shared. TrailGenic wasn’t created for the elite. It was created for anyone who still believes that discipline can be medicine and that the path to a longer life can start with a single step.”