He Sells Oxygen Systems Nationwide: The Zero-Funding Hardware Playbook

AI for Founders with Ryan Estes · Aug 15, 2026 · 1h

Necessity Built the Company. Gratitude Kept It Alive.

Brad Pitzele was collecting diagnoses faster than he could treat them.

Autoimmune arthritis first. Then melanoma, caused by the very drugs prescribed to manage the arthritis. Then late-stage Lyme disease on top of both. He was in his late thirties and, in his words, he felt ninety-five years old. He could barely walk. Everything hurt. And every door in traditional medicine led to a version of the same trade: take the drug that might kill you, or live in the pain.

So he went looking for a third road. He tried roughly two hundred things…