Told At 20 I Had 4 Years To Live. Why We're Building A Healing Center In Kansas

At twenty years old, I was told I had four years to live without open-heart surgery. That sentence sent me down a road I have now walked for more than two decades: studying how the body heals, what supports it, and why so much of what actually helps people sits locked behind prices most families can’t touch.

Here is the math that made me build instead of travel.

The destination retreats that offer serious therapies, the hyperbaric oxygen, the sauna protocols, the residential stays, are priced for a week of someone else’s life. Not a week of ours. People fly overseas to afford hyperbaric sessions, which tells you everything about what the domestic version costs. A family in a town like this one does not weigh that against their savings. They never get to the weighing.

The gap is not only about money

It is about where you live, and that part is measurable.

Researchers at the CDC looked at county-level data for cardiovascular deaths among adults aged 35 to 64 (Sekkarie et al., Journal of Rural Health, 2024). High-poverty rural counties had the highest death rate in the country, 191 per 100,000, a rate ratio of 1.76 against low-poverty urban counties. In the South it was worse, 256 per 100,000.

Their finding for our part of the country is more specific than the headline version, and worth stating accurately. In the Midwest and the West, the strongest signal was poverty rather than rurality on its own. Poor places had higher death rates whether or not they were rural.

That is the honest shape of the problem. The people hit hardest are the ones with the least room to spend their way out, and the serious equipment tends to be four hours away in a city, in a building priced for somebody else.

So we are building it here

In Plainville, Kansas, in the bones of the former Shaw Hotel, a 9,000 square foot healing center is taking shape.

Seven studio apartments for therapeutic residencies, so somebody can come and stay and actually finish a protocol instead of starting one. A full therapy floor: protocol-first hyperbaric oxygen, infrared sauna, cold plunge and mineral-soak hydrotherapy, photobiomodulation, hydrogen inhalation and PEMF. An organic juice bar. A refill market with reverse osmosis water, because the cheapest rung of the ladder should be the one everybody can reach.

Priced so working families can say yes. Built on education, because the goal is never to make you dependent on a facility. The goal is for you to own your health.

Which is what this blog is for

We are not open. We will say so plainly every time until we are.

But the writing does not have to wait for the doors, and neither do you. Everything we teach first is free: sleep, food, movement, water, and the state of your inner life. None of it requires a membership or a drive. Long before anybody walks into that building, we are publishing what we have learned, with the studies named and the caveats included, so you can start from wherever you are reading this.

That is the whole idea. If the blog works, some of you will never need us. That is a fine outcome.

Read this next: start with The Five Pillars of Owning Your Health, which is everything we teach before any therapy, with the research under each one. Then see how little it can take: researchers cut blood sugar spikes by 39% without changing a single meal. For the food side, our series opens at what most food as medicine advice never mentions.

Welcome to True Health Solutions.

Sources

1. Sekkarie A, Woodruff RC, Casper M, Paul AT, Vaughan AS. “Rural-urban disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality vary by poverty level and region.” Journal of Rural Health, 2024;41(1):e12874. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39152622/

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