I’ve been in men’s health for a decade.
I’ve overcome countless diseases that doctors told me would be terminal.
What I’ve realized during that time is that most men (like my former-self) try to get healthy the wrong way.
They don’t mean to. They’re disciplined, committed, and often desperate to feel better.
But they’ve been sold a lie… that more inputs equal healing.
They don’t.
Chris Williamson’s viral “healing stack” for Lyme disease is a perfect example. This isn’t an attack on him. It’s an autopsy of the modern mindset… the same one that convinces thousands of intelligent men that biology is a tech problem.
See here’s the thing… You can’t optimize your way out of dysfunction with more drips, more data, and more devices.
That mindset treats the body like a lab experiment instead of what it really is:
A living ecosystem.
And when you stop tending the soil and start chasing smoke, the whole thing burns down.
The Cult of “More”
We live in an era of over-correction. Men don’t just want to feel better, they want to control their health. So they collect supplements, IVs, injections, and protocols like weapons in an arms race against decline. But that approach doesn’t rebuild you. It breaks you down… slowly, expensively, and often permanently. Let’s break down the illusion of “healing” that’s quietly wrecking modern men.
1. Vitamin C IVs: Acidified Glucose in Disguise
High-dose Vitamin C infusions sound heroic… antiviral, immune-boosting, and regenerative. But the truth is uglier: most are nothing more than acidified glucose, manufactured from industrial corn ferment. The marketing sells “purity.” The reality? A chemical cousin of sugar, pushed directly into the bloodstream. And it’s not benign. Research shows high-dose ascorbic acid can destabilize copper and disrupt the redox balance your cells rely on for resilience. The immune system isn’t a solo instrument, it’s an orchestra. Harmony creates strength. Blast one section too loud, and everything else goes off key. That’s what happens when you flood the system with a single input without understanding the terrain it’s landing in.
2. Phosphatidylcholine + Glutathione IVs: Detox or Congestion?
These are marketed as “cell repair” or “detox support.” In truth, both are lab-made emulsifiers that, when overused, suppress your body’s own production. I’ve seen it again and again in high-performing men: the liver becomes sluggish, detox pathways congest, and mitochondria slow to a crawl. You don’t clean a house by buying more furniture. You clean it by removing what doesn’t belong. Healing follows the same logic.
3. Ozone Therapy: Fire Masquerading as Oxygen
Ozone oxidizes everything it touches, including your own blood lipids and mitochondrial membranes. The idea is simple: “kill pathogens.” The result is chaos. You can’t oxygenate your way to health by setting fire to the machinery that carries it. It’s like trying to polish silver with acid, the shine is temporary, the corrosion permanent. Short-term sterilization. Long-term destruction.
4. Antibiotics + Antimicrobials: Bombing the Garden
Antibiotics don’t just kill infection. They flatten the terrain. They wipe out gut flora… your hormonal foundation, immune regulation, and digestive rhythm. I’ve worked with countless men who “beat” an infection, only to end up with chronic fatigue, low testosterone, and depression. You can’t bomb a garden into bloom. Destroy the microbiome, and you destroy the soil everything else depends on.
5. Peptide Injections: Synthetic Hope
Peptides are the new status symbol of functional medicine… amino acid chains brewed in labs and injected in cycles. They promise “precision healing.” But every injection risks immune confusion, receptor fatigue, and signal desensitization. You don’t strengthen communication by shouting louder. You strengthen it by repairing the signal. Peptides are like yelling instructions at a deaf orchestra: more noise, less harmony.
6. Red Light Therapy: Shining Light on Rubble
Photobiomodulation works.. when the foundation is strong. Stack it on top of ozone, antibiotics, and IV acids, and you’re just shining light on rubble. No wavelength fixes dysfunction that deep. It’s like installing solar panels on a burning house and calling it sustainable energy.
7. Blood Filtration: When “Optimization” Becomes Shock Therapy
Blood filtration sounds advanced … “cleansing the terrain,” “removing toxins.” But constant external manipulation shocks an already overloaded nervous system. You’re not supporting healing. You’re interrupting it. Healing requires rhythm, not interruption. Your biology isn’t a business you can “audit.” It’s an organism that remembers how to heal, if you stop hijacking it.
The Hidden Cost of “Biohacking”
What often looks like detox quietly becomes another form of stress. Synthetic oxidants, residual solvents, and constant sympathetic nervous system activation. You’re not healing, you’re just swapping one form of chaos for another. The body doesn’t heal through escalation. It heals through stability, through nourishment, and through rhythm. You don’t outsmart biology. You rebuild it.
The Forest Analogy
Think of your body like a forest after a fire. You don’t restore it by pouring chemicals on the soil. You let the earth breathe. You let the roots remember what they were built for. You create the conditions for life to reemerge… light, air, water, and stillness. That’s how true healing happens.
The Broader Problem
This isn’t just about Lyme, or IV drips, or ozone chambers. It’s about a generation of men who’ve been trained to think like engineers instead of stewards. We treat the body like software, as if every symptom is a glitch that can be debugged. But biology isn’t code. It’s consciousness. The inputs matter less than the environment they’re landing in. And that environment… your gut, your sleep, your light, and your mind… decides whether you heal or degenerate. The real flex isn’t stacking more “hacks.” It’s building an ecosystem that no longer needs them.
The Simplicity on the Other Side of Complexity
Every man I’ve worked with who turned his health around… the CEOs, the founders, the ex-athletes… had to learn this the hard way. Healing isn’t about doing more. It’s about removing what never belonged. It’s not glamorous. It doesn’t photograph well. It doesn’t sell on podcasts. But it works. Because once you strip away the inputs, your biology remembers. You start sleeping deeply again, thinking clearly again, and feeling desire again. That’s what happens when you stop chasing artificial energy and start living in sync with the laws that built you.
The takeaway:
Stop escalating. Start restoring. Your body doesn’t need more interventions, it needs less interference. When you master that, you stop “getting better” and start becoming whole again. That’s not recovery. That’s reclamation.
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— Simmo
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