Performance starts from within.
My story
My name is Katie Engel and I was a D1 All-American who was told I wasn't meant to be a runner.
The system failed me
I competed in cross country and track at the Division I level. I earned All-American honors. And I finished my final NCAA race on a stress fracture, because the system I was in never once stopped to ask why I kept getting hurt.
No investigation into my diet. No mineral testing. No root-cause questions. Just pressure to perform, and eventually, a quiet exit from the sport I had given everything to. My coach gave me the silent treatment after a bad race, a race I ran in pain, on a broken foot. The team doctor told me I wasn't built to be a runner.
I believed him. I quit. I walked away from the sport entirely and didn't talk about what happened for 17 years.
"I was happy when the MRI confirmed another stress fracture, because it meant I wasn't crazy. It meant I was right."
What I didn't know then was that my body was trying to tell me something the whole time. I was under-fueled, under-supported, and running on empty in ways that went far deeper than training load. Nobody around me knew how to look for it. Nobody tried.
The comeback
At 39, I ran my first half marathon.
After years away from sport, I found my way back, this time on my own terms. I crossed that finish line as proof of something I needed to prove to myself: that with the right support, the right testing, and someone actually paying attention to what your body needs, you can do what you were told you couldn't.
The work
I spent the last four years learning what should have been done for me.
I spent the last four years inside one of the most advanced environments in functional nutrition, working at Vykon, a company at the forefront of HTMA-based testing and custom supplement compounding. I learned from the world's leading expert on minerals, and I've seen firsthand what this work does for people.
This isn't guesswork or generic supplementation. It's cutting-edge, science-based testing that reveals what's actually happening inside the body at a cellular level. The things that don't show up on a standard blood panel. The things that, if someone had checked them during my athletic career, might have changed everything.
If you're a college athlete stuck in an injury cycle with no real answers, or an adult athlete who just wants to perform and recover the way your body is capable of, this work is for you.
Work with me
You deserve someone in your corner who actually looks at what's going on inside your body.
Let's find out what yours has been trying to tell you.
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