In my 20s, I was working in high-finance in New York City with a progressively worsening dependence on alcohol. I switched jobs twice trying to outrun it. After a painful breakup ended a three-year chapter of my life, I hit rock bottom — drinking a handle of vodka a day.
I needed medical detox. I spent 3 months in inpatient rehab at $30,000 per month. After leaving, I did 90 AA meetings in 90 days, got a sponsor, worked “the program.” Six months “sober” and I still felt like something inside my own brain was pulling me back toward alcohol. The cravings hadn’t gone away. The underlying problem was completely untreated.
That’s when I stumbled across Nutrient Repair. I took time off work and threw myself into it — reading hundreds of books and studies, reaching out to the pioneers in the field, experimenting with targeted natural compounds to restore what alcohol had depleted from my brain and body.
Within two months, it was like going from a sad, gray “black and white” movie to life in full color. I was admiring sunrises after years of hating mornings. Getting in the best shape of my life — effortlessly. Feeling aligned with my true self for the first time. Finding meaning, purpose, and genuine joy. Alcohol didn’t just lose its grip — it started to seem downright absurd. Like pulling up to a gas station with a martini glass and filling it with gasoline to “take the edge off.”
But I didn’t stop at the biochemistry. I also read hundreds of books about the psychology, social dynamics, and spiritual dimensions of living life not just without alcohol, but beyond it — and becoming my best self. That’s what ultimately made the physiological balance created by Nutrient Repair stick, and become an identity rather than a phase. Over time, this broader framework became what I call the Hierarchy of Recovery — the model that now guides every client’s success at Fit Recovery.
That was over 12 years ago. I’ve been completely addiction-free since 2014. And I founded Fit Recovery because I realized that what had saved me could save thousands of others — if someone could systematize it, personalize it, and combine it with the coaching, community, and accountability that makes it stick.
Since then, over 4,000 people have completed our program. I’ve personally coached over 500 individuals — including executives, physicians, attorneys, entrepreneurs, and several household names whose confidentiality I’m committed to protecting — and built a team of expert coaches and world-class scientific advisors to ensure every client gets the best possible outcome.
That experience — the failed rehab, the incomplete AA approach, and then the breakthrough with nutrient repair followed by deep work on every other dimension of recovery — is now encoded into every aspect of how Fit Recovery helps people. It’s not a theory. It’s a system built from lived experience, refined over a decade of coaching, and validated by thousands of success stories.
