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Karen Pendergrass
Called Paleo in 2009, four years earlyCalled tiny houses in 2010Called microbiome medicine in 2011First recorded FMT for celiac disease, 2012Called Keto in 2013Said Pepsi would put fiber on the can in 2020. It shipped in 2026Called the nickel problem in 2020. The EU began regulating in 2025Called phage therapy for antimicrobial resistanceCalled Paleo in 2009, four years earlyCalled tiny houses in 2010Called microbiome medicine in 2011First recorded FMT for celiac disease, 2012Called Keto in 2013Said Pepsi would put fiber on the can in 2020. It shipped in 2026Called the nickel problem in 2020. The EU began regulating in 2025Called phage therapy for antimicrobial resistance

Manifesto

What I believe.

  • 01

    The standard almost always arrives late. Someone has to build it early.

  • 02

    Most of what we call chronic and irreversible is unsolved, not unsolvable.

  • 03

    Causal reductionism — one cause, one cure — is the most expensive habit in modern medicine.

  • 04

    If a job can be done by AI, it should be. Including mine.

  • 05

    You do not need permission, a credential, or an existing market to be right.

  • 06

    The problems worth working on are usually the ones the institutions have not named yet.

None of this is contrarianism for its own sake. The enemy is not a person or a company — it is the habit of waiting for permission, the comfort of single-cause stories, and institutions that move slower than the evidence. I build for the gap between what the research already shows and what people actually receive.

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