Why I Do What I Do
My name is Jay Aedo, and I’m the founder of 1Ness. When I was 28 years old, I was working construction, and going nowhere in life
I had no direction. No plan. Just a job that was grinding my body down and a life I was drifting through. The construction work had done serious damage to my back — debilitating pain that made it hard to get out of bed most mornings. I didn’t know it yet, but I had ruptured my L5 disc.
All I knew was that I was in constant pain and couldn’t keep living like this.
The Moment Everything Changed
In 2014, desperate for relief, I traveled to the jungles of Peru to an ayahuasca healing center called Nimea Kaya.
I went to heal my back. That’s not what happened.
The experience didn’t fix my physical pain. But it did something I wasn’t expecting — it showed me the emotional and spiritual weight I’d been carrying for years. Guilt. Resentment. Anger toward my parents. Hate toward God.
For the first time, I saw it clearly. My parents had done the best they could with what they had. And God had never left my side — I was the one who walked away. I had to forgive them. More importantly, I had to forgive myself.
That was the real weight I’d been carrying. And when I let it go, something shifted. Not in my back, but in my mind. I had clarity for the first time in my life.
I knew what I wanted: to heal my body and relieve my pain. And I knew I had to change everything to get there.
The First Goal I Ever Saw Through
I set a goal: build an online business that made enough money to cover my bills, then go back to Peru and volunteer at the healing center for six months.
And I actually did it.
I built a dropshipping ecommerce business making a few thousand dollars a month. It wasn’t a fortune, but it was enough. More importantly, it was the first time in my life I’d ever set a goal and seen it through to completion.
In 2015, I flew back to Peru and volunteered at Nimea Kaya for six months. I taught local villagers how to treat their drinking water with chlorine dioxide — they’d been drinking from a dirty river for years. Within weeks, I watched people go from barely functioning to fully alive.
That’s when I understood something I carry with me to this day: the body wants to heal. It just needs the right conditions.
That experience — watching what one simple solution could do for an entire village — planted the seed for everything that followed.
Healing What Doctors Said Couldn’t Be Healed
After I returned from Peru, my back still hurt. The pain radiated down my legs — classic sciatica from the ruptured L5. Doctors told me surgery was the best path forward. They wanted to fuse my discs together.
I said no.
I’d already learned in Peru that the body could heal if you gave it what it needed. So I committed to the work. Prayer. Meditation. Breathwork. I studied everything I could find about spinal healing.
Then I discovered corrective gait training — a method of retraining the way you walk to reduce spinal compression and restore proper alignment. I changed how I moved through the world, literally one step at a time.
The shift was dramatic. Within months I could feel my back and legs getting stronger. The pain that had defined my life for years started to fade. Not from surgery. Not from drugs. From changing how I moved, how I breathed, how I thought, and how I prayed.
I healed myself. And it changed everything I believed about who I was and what I was capable of.
Building 1Ness From My Living Room
In 2018, I founded 1Ness.
The name comes from something I learned through all of it — Peru, the forgiveness, the healing: everything is connected. Your body, your mind, your spirit. The food you eat, the water you drink, the thoughts you carry. You can’t fix one without addressing the others. That’s what 1Ness means to me. Wholeness. Integration. Taking responsibility for the whole picture. 1Ness stems from the gratitude I feel at the core of my being.
I started by mixing solutions in my living room — creating chlorine dioxide kits from top to bottom. Mixing, bottling, labeling, sealing, and shipping every single order myself. The same solution I’d watched transform a village in Peru — now available to anyone who wanted to take control of their own health.
From my living room, I grew into a friend’s garage, where his teenage kids helped me with the process. From there, we moved into our own location in Orange County, California. Eventually, we relocated to our permanent home in Dallas, Texas, where 1Ness has grown into a real company with a dozen employees — all of us committed to helping our customers take control of their health naturally.
What 1Ness Stands For
1Ness has never been about selling products. It’s about empowering people to heal themselves.
I believe the body is designed to heal — and that most of what holds people back is a system that profits from keeping them sick. Overpriced prescriptions, 7-minute doctor visits, treatments that manage symptoms instead of addressing root causes. I’ve lived on both sides of that equation, and I built 1Ness to offer something different.
Everything we do is grounded in a few simple principles: personal responsibility, natural solutions, transparency, and respect for our customers’ intelligence. We don’t tell people what to think. We give them the tools and information to make their own decisions about their health.
That’s what brought me to Peru. That’s what healed my back. And that’s what drives everything we do today.
Finding Home — and a New Mission
Along the way, I met my wife in Colombia. We got married, started a family, and made Bogotá our home base. Even though we’re a traveling family, this city is home.
Living in Colombia opened a door I didn’t expect. Through a close friend, I met two doctors — a regenerative medicine specialist and a functional medicine physician — who practiced medicine the way I’d always wished it could be. They listen. They take their time. They treat the whole person, not just the symptom. And they’re not beholden to the insurance and pharmaceutical systems that limit what most US doctors can do.
When my dad — in his 80s, in constant pain, and running out of options — flew to Bogotá for stem cell treatments, his doctors back home told him not to go. He went anyway. Two months later, his pain was 90% gone. He wakes up feeling 40 again, he says.
That experience led my wife and me to launch 1Ness Regenerative — a concierge medical tourism service that helps people access advanced regenerative and functional medicine in Bogotá at a fraction of US costs, with a guide they can trust.
If that’s something you’re exploring, read the full story here.
Why I’m Telling You All This
Because I think it matters who’s behind the brand.
I’m not a doctor. I’m not a scientist. I’m someone who was in pain, with no direction, and found a way out by taking responsibility for my own healing. Every product we offer, every service we provide, every piece of content we put out — it comes from that same place.
If you’re someone who’d rather take control of your health than hand it over to a system that doesn’t have your best interests at heart — you’re in the right place.
Welcome to 1Ness.
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📧 jay@onenessdrops.com
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