HEALTHY BANKERS

More energy for the life you’ve built.

Practical ways to look after yourself through long hours and busy weeks. Start with the free Desk Reset.

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For high performers who are under-recovered, not under-caffeinated.

Thomas Piner, investment banker founder · lived CFS/post-viral capacity experience. Read my story · Written for demanding careers · Capacity protocols between meetings · Evidence-aware notes, no fluff

WHAT THIS IS

Healthy Bankers grew out of chronic fatigue in investment banking. It’s practical notes on fatigue, burnout, and recovery — including Long COVID and ME/CFS — for people trying to feel better and get back to more of their lives. You don’t need a particular diagnosis or a career in finance. Guidance here mixes what helped me, what the research suggests, and what’s still uncertain — labeled so those stay distinct. Start with the free Desk Reset.

WHAT THIS ISN’T

Not spa/green-juice/detox. Not finance-only — banker weeks are founder color, not a job-title gate.

More energy for the life you’ve built.

Practical ways to look after yourself through long hours and busy weeks. Start with the free Desk Reset.

Get the free guide

Capacity for people who can’t put the day on pause.

Blog

On our blog, you will get tips for living a healthy style. Our goal is to help you navigate your health and wellness with our content.

August 14, 2026

The Glycolytic Trap: Why Cells Stay Stuck Post-Virus

Post-viral cells often get locked in inefficient glycolysis instead of switching back to oxidative metabolism. Here's the HIF-1α/PDK4 mechanism behind the glycolytic trap, why it defines the PEM threshold in Long COVID and ME/CFS, and the emerging interventions targeting it.
July 25, 2026

Humanin: The Overlooked Mitochondrial Survival Peptide After Viral Illness

Humanin is a mitochondrial-derived peptide that governs cell survival under stress. Emerging research links its post-viral collapse to Long COVID fatigue, PEM, and bioenergetic failure — here's the evidence, the mechanism, and the intervention landscape.
July 20, 2026

HBOT for Long COVID: Mitochondrial Rescue, Neuroinflammation Reversal & the Efrati Protocol

HBOT for Long COVID targets bioenergetic failure at the mitochondrial level — not just symptoms. The 2022 Efrati RCT showed significant cognitive improvements, increased cerebral blood flow, and durable neuroplastic remodeling. Here's the full clinical breakdown.
July 10, 2026

LDN for Long COVID Brain Fog: The NIH RECOVER Trial 2026 Evidence

LDN for Long COVID brain fog is now an NIH priority. The 2026 RECOVER-TLC trial is enrolling 1,300 participants to generate FDA-grade evidence. Here's what the microglial suppression mechanism means for high-performing professionals who haven't fully recovered cognitively from COVID.
 

Learn more about my story. There has been a slate of young investment bankers deaths, some of these directly healthy related. Our goal is to change this.


Useful Links

PhoenixRising - The go to website for up to date information on CFS/ME. Active forums and educated community

The End ME/CFS Project - Ongoing multiyear, multidisciplinary approach to curing CFS/ME. Substantial funding, modeled after the Human Genome Project, determined to succeed..

Disclaimer

What follows is my experience which will hopefully help others. Obviously, everyone’s body is different and those suffering from fatigue are at various stages and from various sources. Please keep that I mind if you proceed with any particular protocols I list. Do seek out a health care professional, particularly a functional practitioner who understands the real role of a doctor should provide and understands a holistic approach is best when healing. It shouldn't be understated, that you often have to put the pieces together from various sources to completely heal. Hopefully, the information provided herein will help you do that.

My views are completely unbiased, I am not selling, promoting any treatments, herbs, vitamins, or products that I may have listed or discussed. These just happen to be the ones that - after sufficient research - I feel worth sharing either because they assisted me on my path to recovery and/or are such of such popularity among health professions that I believe they are worth mentioning.

My views are completely unbiased, I am not selling, promoting any treatments, herbs, vitamins, or products that I may have listed or discussed. These just happen to be the ones that - after sufficient research - I feel worth sharing either because they assisted me on my path to recovery and/or are such of such popularity among health professions that I believe they are worth mentioning.

Book Summaries

Healthy Bankers

More energy for the life you’ve built.

Practical ways to look after yourself through long hours and busy weeks. Start with the free Desk Reset.

Get the free guide

For high performers who are under-recovered, not under-caffeinated.

Thomas Piner, investment banker founder · lived CFS/post-viral capacity experience. Read my story