Brendan helps people create breakthroughs in their personal and professional lives by building optimal physical, mental, and emotional well-being. He draws upon decades of personal experience in these realms and is certified as an Extraordinary Coach. In addition to extensive insights gained by overcoming his own health challenges, he learns more daily from mentors with hundreds of years of collective experience. Brendan holds an undergraduate degree from the Program in Human Biology at Stanford University, a Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering & Science from Stanford's Civil Engineering Department, and a certificate in Nutrition Farming®. As a Boy Scout, his nickname was "fish head" because it seemed like all he could think about was fishing, and he's still a bit like that.
Brendan Moorehead, MS
My Story
When I was 15 years old, I developed an intestinal infection after drinking water from a river on a fishing and camping trip, despite my training as a Boy Scout to be cautious about drinking water from rivers and lakes.
A doctor prescribed the antibiotic tetracycline to treat the infection with Salmonella, but after three courses of the antibiotic, my symptoms still had not improved. And new ones appeared. Pretty soon I was passing undigested food and foul-smelling flatulence. This went on for years.
Near the end of my high school education, I suddenly started experiencing "brain fog", the inability to think clearly. I first noticed this when I could not think my way through a problem on the calculus advanced placement test in my senior year of high school.
Later that year when I was a Freshman at Stanford University, my brain fog had worsened. I could barely read because I could not remember how a sentence began by the time I reached the end of it. I struggled to think during exams and started to experience a great deal of stress, anxiety, and even panic.
Then during an overseas studies program and honors thesis research in Latin America, I experienced several respiratory illnesses that seemed like the flu and then bronchitis. Soon after that I started to develop fatigue and muscle pain.
This started to affect many of my decisions because I started to consider whether I had the energy or brain power to do things I wanted to do. My focus shifted from academic achievement, athletics, theater, a social life, and travel adventures to trying to understand and resolve my health challenges.
Some of what I did to overcome my health challenges helped, and some of it made me worse. Overall, I was not making progress. I was sinking deeper into physiological dysfunction and psychological despair.
Bit by bit, my world was shrinking. One by one my dreams became impossible to pursue. By age 33, I decided to drive to a shooting range in Van Nuys, California to put a bullet through my head.
On the way, to the shooting range, I got lost because my brain fog had me confused about where I was. So I pulled over to the side of the road to try to get reoriented. In that moment, I asked myself if I should try harder to kill myself or try harder to get my health back. And I was suddenly hit with an unexpected realization.
I realized that if I carried through with suicide, I would be letting people down that I might eventually help if I would just summon more grit to stick it out until I could fix the seemingly endless fatigue and then help others using whatever I might learn in the process of getting well.
I was surprised to observe that while I had given up on my own dreams, I did not want to give up on the dreams of other people that I might be able to help later on. That is what saved me. And if you are one of the people that I am meant to serve, then you saved me.
So I turned my car around and committed myself to solving my low energy enigma and eventually helping others do the same.
I had become disillusioned with doctors and other types of health practitioners, so I spent a few more years trying to figure things out on my own. Then I opened my mind again to also seeking help from health practitioners.
The practitioner who helped me the most had a detailed system for assessing and treating the causes of dysfunction in the body. Her system helped me a great deal, but something was still missing, and I had not yet recovered my full vitality.
So I went deeper into research, ran more lab tests on myself, and identified more imbalances that I could correct.
As my health continued to improve, I wanted to learn more and fill gaps in my knowledge so that I could start to help other people, including those whose health challenges might be more complex than mine had been.
I started taking courses from practitioners who had figured out how to identify and resolve the root causes of most health challenges, such as chronic toxicity from environmental pollutants, intestinal dysbiosis and hyperpermeability, hidden infections (e.g. persistent viruses, parasites, and other organisms), nutritional deficiencies and imbalances, immune system dysfunction, neurological imbalances, blockages in the body's electrical meridian system, the long-term influence of past psychological trauma, and other factors.
Along the way I noticed that although each practitioner I learned from understood certain things very well, they also had blind spots. Nobody seemed to have a reasonably complete system. So I set out to create one.
I knew that such a system would have to include at least the following elements:
- A detailed model of health that captures all known influences on health
- A process for accurately assessing the root causes of a person's health challenges and identifying certain aspects of the person's bio-individuality
- A strategic plan for addressing the root causes in the right sequence while customizing everything to a person's metabolic, genetic, and nutritional bio-individuality
- Highly effective methods of resolving root causes so that people can achieve full reversal of root causes whenever possible and experience a high-vitality body, mind, and life
With these things in mind, I created the Bio-Individual Blueprint system that guides my work with clients. I also created the Bio-Individual Blueprint Roadmap to encapsulate and communicate how this system is organized. To learn more about this system, you can download the Bio-Individual Blueprint Roadmap document and watch the walkthrough video that explains my approach here.