Frank Bohne is 6'1". At his lowest he weighed 121 pounds. He got there through veganism, caloric restriction, and compulsive exercise — a combination he now understands was killing him. His mom got him into Johns Hopkins eating disorder unit in the summer of 2016. He nearly died before that happened. Two years later he relapsed back to the same weight. And then something changed.

Weston Rowe is 42 years old. He does construction — on his feet, up and down ladders, carrying loads, 50 hours a week. Then he goes home and runs a business. He has a 10-month-old son who has never seen a doctor. His family free-birthed at home in the bathroom. They sleep in a Faraday cage on the floor, no mattress, inclined, with mouths taped shut. He has no Wi-Fi in his house. No health insurance. And he's been eating raw meat every day for six years.

Ryan Aleckszander didn't arrive at his views through ideology. He arrived through lived experience — health struggles that mainstream medicine couldn't solve, and a years-long investigation into why the system keeps failing the people it claims to serve.