It Started Early

Second grade: microscopes. Third grade: electricity and light bulbs. Fifth grade: magnets and motors. Sixth and seventh grade: encyclopedias, then quantum physics, black holes, and space.

Tyler was always the kid who built something, read something, or figured something out — and then immediately wanted to explain it to whoever would listen. A parent. A classmate. Sometimes a teacher. The learning and the teaching were never separate things.

A Pivot Toward People

Through high school, the interest shifted. A close friend’s father became seriously ill. Doctors couldn’t find answers. Then one physician tried something different — changes in diet, a new approach — and the improvement was real and dramatic. That moment pulled Tyler’s curiosity away from electronics and physics and toward health and wellness.

He also began to notice something else: that the same scientific knowledge he was studying could be tested on himself, applied to his own training and athletic performance. Science wasn’t just something to know. It was something to use.

From Classroom to Lab to Competition

Tyler carried those two threads — the scientist and the athlete — through university, where he tutored peers in physiology and biochemistry, spent hours in professors’ offices debating the latest findings, and was always more interested in what contradicted the textbooks than what confirmed them. He wanted the cutting edge.

That instinct led him to molecular hydrogen in 2009. The first thing he wanted to know: could it improve athletic performance? That question became his first study. It also became a pattern — something new to investigate, to understand deeply, and then to communicate clearly to anyone willing to engage.

From marathon races to arm wrestling and weightlifting, Tyler has always found that competitions bring curious people. People who want to understand training, health, their own bodies. He meets them where they are. Not with a lecture — but with an explanation shaped to make the information click, to create that moment where someone genuinely understands something for the first time.

That’s what ties it together: the scientist who wants to know, the athlete who wants to apply, and the educator who can’t help but share what he finds.

Privately, he lives in Utah and enjoys being with nature in the mountains and spending time with his kids.