About Body of Clues

You don’t get a map or guidebook for solving a mysterious chronic illness. At some point, you realize no one’s coming to figure it out for you — and the detective work is in your hands. This site is for people who’ve reached that moment and decided not to give up.

What This Site Is About

Body of Clues is about solving chronic mystery illness. A mystery illness is one that doesn’t fit neatly into a diagnostic box and has no obvious cause — leaving you stranded at the edges of the medical system, suffering in the dark. Solving that knowledge problem might not always provide a cure (though it definitely can), but with better understanding, you can start to intelligently improve your health. I believe almost anyone can do this — not through easy answers or miracle cures, but with realistic strategies, up to date tools and knowledge, observation, and stubborn persistence.

Why I Created It

I started Body of Clues after making a few health breakthroughs and wanting to share both knowledge and hope with others in similar shape. I’ve spent decades battling unexplained, debilitating symptoms — while navigating a medical system that often dismissed me or made things worse. Like many of you, I had to become my own researcher, experimenter, and advocate. I’m not a medical professional, but I’ve had to diagnose my own conditions when no one else would.

I'm writing under a pen name so that I am not limited in the personal nature of what I can share. The experiences, however, are very real.

What You’ll Find Here

Here, I share strategies, tools, stories, and the occasional dose of dark humor from the front lines of that process. My goal is to lay out a framework for approaching mysterious illnesses systematically. Some posts are practical — methods that worked for me or specialized knowledge I wish I had found much earlier. Others are raw and personal, written from the middle of the mess.

If you’re working through your own medical mystery, I hope what’s here helps shorten your path to improved health — or at least makes it a little less lonely.

How to Follow Along

You can sign up as a member (free) to get new posts by email and comment on articles. Just click the "Subscribe" button in the top menu. It's the only way I can get a sense of whether this work is helping anyone.

Comments are available to members only — to keep the space respectful, focused, and spam-free. I welcome your stories, your insights, and even your wildest theories.

Thanks for reading.

May you grow healthier as you grow older.