Georgia 2022
I’m a biologist, Managing Director, researcher, trained business coach with a focus on high-ability individuals, and long-term self-experimenter with a strong interest in how the body and mind interact under real-life conditions. My background combines a structured, efficiency-driven business career with an analytical curiosity for physics, biology, neuroscience, and human consciousness. At my core, I’ve always been a bit of a nerd—someone who can spend hours thinking through systems, building models, and testing ideas, whether in a professional or personal context.
Before Long Covid, I was already exploring different approaches to health and healing. This included nutrition, fasting, meditation, and various forms of self-regulation, as well as exposure to different cultures and ways of thinking through travel, retreats, and, most importantly, self-experiments. I’ve never been interested in one-dimensional solutions. Instead, I tend to test, compare, and integrate what actually works in practice. Challenging situations have often been the most interesting ones for me—less something to avoid, more something to understand and work through, treating my body as a research subject.
In April 2021, I developed Long Covid after my first SARS-CoV-2 infection. Two further infections followed, with a major collapse in early 2024 that fundamentally changed my baseline. What had previously been a structured, high-functioning system stopped working. Standard approaches—both medical and self-directed—only worked to a limited extent. I had to learn how to adapt in real time and find practical, sometimes unconventional ways to stabilise my body and nervous system.
At the same time, my life didn’t stop. After the inital drop out of six months, I continued to work, build teams, attend selected conferences, and stay connected to projects that mattered to me—while repeatedly adjusting how much was actually possible. This forced a shift from purely analytical understanding toward a more direct, body-based learning process: less theory, more observation of what the system could actually tolerate and recover from.
My perspective on health reflects that balance. I don’t believe in black-and-white models. In an ideal setting, a healthy body wouldn’t rely on supplements or structured interventions. At the same time, I don’t see health as something binary or reserved for those without symptoms. Most people operate within constraints—some visible, some not. My approach has always been to work with those realities rather than ignore them.
I don’t have a single or quick solution to Long Covid. I share what has helped me, how I’ve adapted and reorganized my life, and how I understand misfunctional bodies—to gradually improve stability within real-world conditions. This is not a retrospective story, but an ongoing process. My baseline has improved significantly over time, and I’m able to handle more again, even though I’m still working on improving my baseline.