02/19/2026
Friends! Please check out my colleague and dear friend crowdfunding. Meet Rodney 🇺🇸
Rodney is a Navy Veteran and registered nurse with 39 years in emergency and critical care medicine. Rodney is also on my Sound and Vibroacoustic Team. He is the clinical piece to our studies.
Meet his service dog Charlie… Charlie is where the story begins. Rodney noticed as he was aging, him and Charlie were both aging the same way—getting tired faster, slower recovery, cognitive changes. He started researching oxidative stress, which led to a formal petition to the federal government that could change preventive health for millions of people and animals.
On December 18, 2025, three service-disabled veterans submitted an official petition asking the Department of Veterans Affairs to recognize ergothioneine as an essential nutrient. If successful, this creates a pathway for recognition across all federal health agencies—affecting every American and potentially every mammal.
WHY HE NEEDS YOUR HELP
The science is published. The petition is filed. Now we need to prove it works before symptoms appear.
He is proposing biorepository studies: analyze blood samples that were stored years ago from people and animals, measure their ergothioneine levels along with other oxidative stress biomarkers, and see if low levels predicted who got sick.
If you feel called to support this cause, it would mean so much to Rodney. Every single dollar makes a difference.
No contribution is ever too small or too large—each one matters. ❤️ Head on over and click the link below to donate! Please read his full story on his crowdfunding campaign. It’s truly incredible.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-veterans-petition-for-health-breakthrough?attribution_id=sl:493746ae-9b72-4fcb-8cc2-369ec7fcc3d2&lang=en_US&ts=1770734497&utm_campaign=man_activity_topbar&utm_content=amp17_ta&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link
