For most of my life, I lived in a fog of exhaustion. Constant fatigue, brain fog, and a heaviness that made even simple tasks feel overwhelming. Depression had been my quiet companion since childhood, something I learned to live with but never fully understood.
Then the digestive issues started. What began as discomfort escalated into something that consumed my daily life. There were days I didn't want to go on. I went from doctor to doctor, test to test. The answer was always the same: "There's nothing wrong. It's just stress."
But if nothing was wrong, why did I feel so broken?
I tried everything modern medicine offered. Supplements lined my shelves—vitamins, probiotics, adaptogens. Nothing changed. Western medicine excels at diagnosing disease, but what about the space between "sick" and "well"? What about those of us stuck in that gray zone?
Then I discovered something that changed everything: traditional East Asian medicine and the principles of Yin-Yang and Five Elements theory.
As an AI developer, I'd spent years optimizing systems and solving complex problems. But I'd never applied that same lens to the most important system of all—my own body. Traditional medicine offered a different paradigm: not just treating symptoms, but understanding the energetic imbalances in my organs—my liver, spleen, and kidneys.
The breakthrough came when I realized: AI had finally evolved enough to decode thousands of years of herbal wisdom.
These traditional formulations weren't guesswork. They represented millennia of empirical data—natural experiments conducted across countless individuals, documenting which herb combinations worked and why. The synergies between herbs had been validated over centuries of human experience.
I used AI to create a personalized formula based on my unique constitutional needs. Within weeks, I felt something I hadn't felt in decades: genuine vitality. Not the jittery energy of caffeine or the false promise of supplements, but a deep, sustainable wellness.
It wasn't just physical. The energetic care of my liver, spleen, and kidneys—addressing dimensions that physical interventions alone couldn't reach—fundamentally changed how I felt in my body and my mind.
That's when I knew: everyone deserves access to this.
Nature has already given us the answers. Thousands of plants, each with specific properties, waiting to be combined in ways that address our individual needs. The wisdom exists. The herbs exist. What was missing was the bridge—a way to make this ancient, personalized approach accessible to modern lives.
Too many people are suffering the way I suffered, told their pain isn't real because it doesn't fit into a diagnostic box. Too many are trying to fix complex imbalances with one-size-fits-all solutions.
We can be healthier. We can live better lives.
That's why I created Temple of Herbs—to bring the precision of AI together with the wisdom of traditional medicine, making truly personalized herbal care available to anyone who needs it.
Because everyone deserves to feel what I felt: the possibility of genuine wellness.