Founder · Operator + Investor
From 'optimised' but exhausted to a regulated baseline that compounds
Operator-investor, early-40s — multi-venture portfolio (Western Europe)
An operator who had every wearable, every supplement, and a quarterly bloodwork plan — and was still waking up at 4am with his jaw clenched. Twelve weeks of treating wellness as nervous system management (not stack optimisation) collapsed the noise and rebuilt a baseline that actually held.
Context
He'd done the longevity tour: peptides, NAD drips, sauna+cold, CGM, the lot. Labs looked enviable on paper. Lived experience didn't match the dashboard — wired through the day, crashed at 9pm, woke at 4am, and increasingly short-fused with the people he loved.
The pattern
He had been running a healthcare model on himself — keeping the body alive — while ignoring the wellness model: the quality of the day inside the body. Every input was tuned for performance; nothing was tuned for safety. His autonomic system never got the cue to stand down.
What we did
- •Reset protocol (10 days) to interrupt the always-on sympathetic baseline
- •Stack reduction — removed 6 supplements and 2 nootropics that were keeping arousal artificially high
- •Daily anchor stack: physiological sigh between meetings, post-lunch 12-min walk, 9pm wind-down ritual (no decisions, low light, jaw release)
- •Weekly 1:1 to renegotiate calendar density and a 'no calls before 10am' boundary
- •Quarterly bloodwork kept — but reinterpreted alongside HRV, sleep architecture, and subjective state
Outcomes
HRV (90-day avg)
31ms → 64ms
Sleep onset
38min → 11min
4am wake-ups
5×/wk → 0–1×/wk
Resting HR
72 → 58 bpm
Reported quality-of-life score
5/10 → 9/10
"I spent three years optimising for staying alive longer. Twelve weeks of regulating actually gave me a life worth staying in. The dashboard didn't change much — the person reading it did."
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