Why I Do What I Do
My name is Jay Aedo, Founder of 1Ness. When I was 28, I was working construction, and going nowhere.
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 planted the seed for everything that followed — including the founding of 1Ness.
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.
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.
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 half dozen employees — all of us committed to helping our customers take control of their health naturally.
1Ness has never been about selling products. It’s about empowering people to heal themselves. That’s what brought me to Peru. That’s what healed my back. And what led me on a journey of self discovery around the world.
Finding Home in Colombia
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.
My wife is my partner in everything — she was made for hosting. She loves having visitors in our home, and our guests tend to be incredible people — humble, open, and courageous enough to travel across the world to heal themselves. She thrives in that role, and it shows in the experience we create for every guest.
How I Found Dr. Jackie
For two years, I battled recurring strep throat. Every few months it came back. Every time, antibiotics — which destroyed my gut and weakened my immune system. I had to start my healing journey all over again.
Then a close friend told me about Dr. Jackie Arroyo Sierra.
I didn’t go for the strep. I went to experiment — I’d heard about NAD+ IV therapy and wanted to try it. I had no expectations.
Within an hour of leaving her clinic, I noticed something. It didn’t hurt to swallow. After two years of bracing myself before every swallow, the pain was just… gone. I never made it to the ear, nose, and throat specialist I had scheduled.
The strep hasn’t come back since.
I booked a $100 consultation with Dr. Jackie. It turned into a 90-minute conversation. We became friends.
For the first time in years, I trusted a doctor. Before this, I’d lost all faith in the medical system — 7-minute appointments, doctors who didn’t listen, and a system designed to sell prescriptions, not heal people. But Dr. Jackie showed me another way. A world where doctors aren’t buried in debt, aren’t beholden to insurance companies, and actually have the time to listen and help.
How I Found Dr. Aldana
Through that same friend, I met Dr. Roberto Aldana — an orthopedic surgeon and regenerative medicine specialist focused on stem cells and joint repair.
I told him about my dad. He was in his 80s. In bad shape. Losing hope. Running out of options and time.
His US doctors told him surgery was his only choice — with no guarantees and serious risk. A regenerative doctor in the states quoted him $30,000 for PRP alone. No stem cells included. No guarantee. No insurance coverage.
Everyone told him not to go to Colombia. Too risky. Unproven. Just accept the pain and limitations that come with age.
He didn’t listen.
My family trusts me, and knew this was for the best. That wasn’t always the case. When I went to Peru, they didn’t support it at all. But they’ve watched me grow — build a company, heal my own body, come into my own. So when my dad confided in me, he trusted me completely.
My parents flew to Bogotá and stayed with me for a month. He got stem cell injections with PRP and exosomes in his back, knees, shoulders, and hands. No surgery.
Two months later, his pain is 90% gone. His movement has improved dramatically. He’s doing things his doctors told him wasn’t possible anymore — like carrying his granddaughter.
He wakes up feeling like he’s 40 again, he says.
Feeling 40 at 80. Sign me up.
How It All Came Together
It happened naturally.
While my parents were staying with us during my dad’s treatment, my wife and I realized this was something we were meant to do. Helping people navigate a foreign country, find doctors they can trust, and create the conditions for healing — it was a natural extension of everything 1Ness already stood for.
My wife loves hosting. I love helping people heal. Our guests are the kind of people we want in our home — humble, open, and brave enough to bet on themselves.
Traveling to a foreign country and trusting strangers with your health is unsettling. I get it. That’s why I’m here. I’ve personally used both doctors. I’ve put my own father’s health in their hands. And now I’m helping others access the same care and the same results.
If you’re ready to explore that path, I’m here to help.
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