ABOUT SHANE
I didn't find this work in a textbook.
I found it because I had no other choice.
The long way around
For years I was caught in a cycle that most doctors couldn't explain and couldn't fix. Severe gut dysfunction. Chronic eczema. Recurring systemic infections that wouldn't resolve no matter what we tried. The answer was almost always more antibiotics, more steroids, more suppression.
It worked until it didn't. The overuse of antibiotics and steroids eventually broke down the very system they were supposed to protect. My immune system was compromised, my gut was a wreck, and I felt like my body had turned against me.
What changed everything wasn't a single intervention. It was understanding the pattern. Learning that the body operates as an interconnected system — that gut integrity affects immune function, that chronic inflammation has upstream causes, that suppressing symptoms without addressing foundations creates a different problem downstream.
When I finally understood the mechanism, I could build something that actually held.
That experience is the reason PRAXIS exists.
What I bring to this work
My path to functional health is not a straight line and I think that is exactly what makes it useful.
I spent years as a professional chef. Red Seal and Journeyman certified, I worked in Michelin star restaurants across Europe, including time in Gordon Ramsay's kitchen. That world teaches you things that no health course can. The relationship between ingredients, preparation, and how food actually affects the human body. And something less tangible but just as important, what it means to create an experience that genuinely matters to someone. Working at that level instilled in me a deep and lasting commitment to serving people well.
My education includes functional medicine training, peptide therapy education, advanced health optimization coursework, and continued study in metabolic health, lab literacy, nutrition, supplementation, inflammation, performance, and recovery.
PRAXIS is not a medical clinic. I do not diagnose, prescribe, treat, or replace physician care. The work here is coaching, education, research literacy, and pattern recognition. Helping clients understand their biology with more clarity, structure, and context.
I am also the head MMA coach at Dunamis Martial Arts, one of Canada's top fight teams. Coaching high performance athletes forces you to think seriously about recovery, body composition, nutrition, hormonal health, and mental resilience in ways that a clinical setting rarely does. It is one of the most honest testing grounds for everything I teach.
What connects all of it is a genuine obsession with understanding how the body actually works, and an equally genuine commitment to helping people who feel like they have been let down by the answers they have been given so far.
How I think about this work
Most people who feel like something is off are right. The instinct that something is not working despite genuine effort is usually accurate. The problem is rarely a lack of effort. It is almost always sequence, context, and a missing understanding of the mechanism underneath.
Advanced tools including peptides, GLPs, and targeted supplementation are genuinely useful. I believe that and I teach it. But they work best when the foundation beneath them is ready to receive them. Adding complexity to a system that has not been properly built does not fix the system. It creates a more complicated version of the same problem.
PRAXIS is built around that understanding. Foundations come first. Data and pattern recognition come second. Advanced tools come when the biology is prepared to actually use them.
That sequence is not a conservative position on advanced tools. It is what I learned the hard way, in my own body first, and in the patterns I have worked through with clients since.
Where to start
If any of this resonates with you, the Foundation Scorecard is the right first step. It takes about eight minutes, scores thirteen foundations, and gives you a clear picture of where your highest leverage actually is right now.
Or if you are ready to talk, a Strategy Session is the most direct way to get a personalized picture of your priority pattern.