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The project didn't start from peak health. It started from the opposite. A panic disorder in early 2025, a gut on fire, a body that dropped 12 kg of muscle and a VO₂max that collapsed. Peakspan is the ledger of what came next.
Berkeley exchange semester. Extreme stress. Severe dizziness attacks, ER visit, cardiac workup clean. Back to Germany with a nervous system running on alarm. Panic disorder diagnosis Q1 2025. Weight slid from 98 kg to 86 kg — most of it muscle. Gut inflammation severe: calprotectin 434 µg/g at the Feb 2025 annual, first signs of Morbus Crohn on colonoscopy.
Therapy for the nervous system. Gut protocol: anti-inflammatory diet, six weeks strict keto, zinc-L-carnosine, turmeric, L-glutamine. Not all evidence-grade — the mix worked. By Q3 2025 calprotectin was 9 µg/g, symptoms gone. Jogging returned mid-year. Strength training end-of-year, starting from near-zero.
95 kg, muscle back, VO₂max 42.0 at 98% predicted. HRV climbing on every axis. Panic resolved. ApoB dropping. Next: Ezetimib for the genetic Lp(a) wall, B-complex for elevated homocysteine, omega-3 toward the 10–12 % index band. The peak is the span to hold — the reason this is called Peakspan.
Fourteen months of biomarkers, across two continents and three clinics. What moved, what didn't, what the numbers say about the gut protocol that wasn't fully evidence-based but worked — and the genetic Lp(a) wall that lifestyle can't touch alone.
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