The Origin
14 years. 4 countries. No doctor saw the full picture.
Justin is a merchant mariner and marine technologist. His lab reports were scattered
across the US, Mexico, Ecuador, and Bermuda — in different languages, different units,
different biomarkers. Every doctor saw one snapshot. Nobody connected the pattern.
"I had more hope in life once I finally had the diagnosis and understood why I'd been feeling so bad. For years, I'd become comfortable with the idea that I might die young because no doctor could help me. They tried. Every single one missed it — not because they were bad doctors, but because they each saw one page of a book written across multiple countries. My nomadic lifestyle wasn't compatible with their rigid systems. Working on ships meant I rarely knew when or where I could get an appointment. I couldn't schedule months in advance and rarely saw the same doctor twice. My career was at sea and my life was fluid."
— Justin Smith, Founder
994
Ferritin (ng/mL)
Normal: 30–300
90%
Iron Saturation
Normal: 20–50%
39
Age at diagnosis
Grandfather died at 43
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Found what 14 years of doctors missed