For years, I believed I was doing the right things. I thought I ate a healthy, balanced diet, alternated between sitting and standing, and stayed active with both cardio and strength training. I worked in tech, gamed in my free time, and assumed my body would adapt to the pace and structure of modern work. Instead, I slowly developed chronic neck issues, nerve symptoms, recurring pain, mobility problems, and a growing awareness of long-term metabolic and cardiovascular risk. None of it came from a single injury or dramatic moment. It came from small, repeated patterns that felt normal, reasonable, and even responsible.

This talk is my personal story of learning to treat health as a system rather than a collection of isolated problems. Posture, movement, nutrition, sleep, work habits, and environment were all interconnected in ways I did not understand until things started breaking. Along the way, I used AI as a support tool to organize information, model care strategies, and prepare better conversations with doctors, always grounded in professional medical validation. This is not a story about extreme routines, expensive interventions, or biohacking. It is about redefining “healthy,” changing daily defaults, and applying systems thinking to build sustainable, long-term health inside a demanding career. Attendees will leave with a new way to think about their own health as a system they can design, not just a set of problems to react to.