Working with Type B Neuroimmune is like Sailing.
What is The Jupiter Approach?
The Jupiter Approach is my clinical and research framework for Type B neuroimmune systems—patients whose brains, immune systems, and autonomic networks have to be treated as one interlocked state, not as separate diagnoses or protocols.
It is not a fixed method you are “put through.” It’s the way I think about and work with three intertwined loads of exposure, infection and relational trauma and their effects on your nervous system, immune system, and broader physiology of your brain and body.
Ways to work with us
There isn’t one “right” way to do Type B Neuroimmune work. Depending on where you are and what you need, you can engage with this framework at different depths:
The Lighthouse – Education & orientation
A self‑paced way to learn the Type B Neuroimmune model, see your own patterns more clearly, and start making low‑risk, stabilizing changes.
Explore The Lighthouse →
The Safe Harbor – Community & support
A contained space for Type B‑patterned people (especially survivors of narcissistic abuse and complex trauma) to be understood, ask questions, and practice nervous‑system and buffering tools together.
Visit The Safe Harbor →
The North Star – 1:1 consulting
My highest‑touch, research‑grade consulting container for complex Type B cases, using The Jupiter Approach six‑panel map to guide labs, strategy, and pacing over time.
Learn about The North Star →
How The Jupiter Approach Evolved
The Jupiter Approach is my clinical and research framework for Type B neuroimmune systems—patients whose brains, immune systems, and autonomic networks have to be treated as one interlocked state, not as separate diagnoses or protocols.
The Jupiter Approach grew out of three key influences:
Research Training and Pattern Recognition. At UPenn, UCSD, and Duke, I was trained to track patterns, mechanisms, and trajectories across complex data sets and cases. The work taught me how to build and refine maps: to see not just individual findings, but how they cluster and evolve over time.
Biotoxin and Chronic Infection Practice. In mold, Lyme and coinfections, MCAS, and dysautonomia, I kept seeing a particular subset of patients—highly sensitive, low‑buffer, with a history of cPTSD—for whom standard protocols could not treat effectively.
My Own Type B Neuroimmune System. My own collapse under biotoxins, infections, and complex PTSD and slow rebuild taught me from the inside how three primary loads—biotoxins and environmental exposures, chronic infections, and persistent psychosocial and relational toxicants—drive recognizable patterns of immune, autonomic, and physiologic change.
Why working with Type B is like Sailing (vs power‑boating).
Type B Neuroimmune systems are complex. When you work with them, you have to constantly consider multiple variables—just as you do in sailing—the direction of the wind, the strength and direction of the current and swell, sail trim, and the capacity of the crew.
By contrast, working with Type A Neuroimmune is like power-boating: turn the key in the ignition and push down on the throttle. It requires skill yet it is not as nuanced.
In Type A systems, this looks like:
An acute Lyme infection treated with a short course of Antibiotics
An acute Mold exposure treated with removal of the source + CSM
An acute traumatic episode treated with a short course of EMDR or psychedelic-assisted therapy
Why Type A Neuroimmune Medicine fails for Type B Neuroimmune Bodies
For many higher‑buffer Type A systems, more intensity = more benefit:
Stronger dose → faster results
Bigger catharsis → deeper healing
Type B systems are different. Three main factors have converged:
Biotoxin / toxin exposure
Chronic infections
Complex and/or medical trauma and ongoing psychosocial toxicants
to create a unique signature effect on:
The immune system
The autonomic and central nervous systems
The physical brain and body
For Type B systems, the same high‑intensity, “power‑boat” strategies are often experienced as:
Another toxin (to mast cells, microglia, and autonomics), and
Another trauma (to an already overloaded nervous system).
The Jupiter Approach is “Type B medicine for Type B bodies”—a sailing model, not a power‑boat model.
Why Standard Models Quietly Backfire for Type B Neuroimmune
Most mold, Lyme, MCAS, or trauma‑oriented care follows some version of:
Find the trigger → run the protocol → push through flares.
For higher‑buffer Type A neuroimmune systems, this sometimes works well enough.
For many Type B patients, it quietly backfires because their nervous, immune, and autonomic systems are primed, interlocked and reactive.
“Standard” doses and multi-layered treatment stacks can push the system into overwhelm, driving head and spine pain, insomnia, palpitations, digestive flares and/or mast‑cell activation.
What is labeled as a “detox reaction” is often not progress; it is the nervous system and immune system telling us the load is too high to be therapeutic.
Standard models also tend to:
Treat each diagnosis in isolation (mold, Lyme, Long-COVID, MCAS, trauma)
Underestimate trauma and ongoing psychosocial toxicants as true physiologic load
Encourage patients to override body signals in the name of discipline, mindset, or “healing crises”
The Jupiter Approach is my answer for Type B Neuroimmune bodies.
The Jupiter Approach: a six‑panel map instead of single diagnoses
The Jupiter Approach: Type B Neuroimmune Medicine looks at your system through six panels instead of chasing single diagnoses.
1. Core Inflammation in the Body, Gut, and Brain
How inflamed is the system?
Where are the main fire‑sources?
2. Oxygen & Metabolism / Mitochondrial Support
Can your cells actually make energy?
How is oxygen delivery and utilization?
3. Nutrient Reserve & Methylation Hints
Do you have the basic raw materials to repair, buffer, and detoxify?
4. Liver, Bile, Pancreas & Kidney Load
How well are you processing hormones, toxins, and metabolic waste?
5. Post‑Infectious Load & Microbiome Support
What’s happening with chronic infections, post‑viral patterns, and your gut ecosystem?
6. Brain, HPA Axis & Neuroendocrine / Brain Stress & Regulatory Signals
How stressed is your brain?
How are your hormones and stress‑signaling systems responding?
Instead of asking, “Is this mold or Lyme or MCAS or trauma?”, we ask:
What is your current pattern across these six panels, given your biotoxin, infection, and relational‑trauma loads?
How I actually work with Type B physiology
For Type B physiology—the early focus is on stability and buffering, not aggressive detox or microbial stacks or big overhauls.
I prioritize:
Calming flares
Mast cells, gut, sleep, autonomic storms.Building small, sustainable reserves of energy and safety
Enough buffer that your system can actually respond to treatment instead of collapsing or over‑reacting.Gently mapping your panel patterns so we’re not guessing
Using targeted, high‑signal labs and your lived experience to see which panels are loudest now.
From there, we can make thoughtful, paced changes that respect your system.
This is the heart of The Jupiter Approach: medicine that is designed for Type B Neuroimmune physiology, instead of asking Type B bodies to keep surviving Type A medicine.