Twelve years into her career, Dr. Holloway saw a patient she will never forget.
The woman was 41. Fit. Disciplined. Accomplished in every part of her life.
She had spent $3,400. Eight sessions of professional massage. Two rounds of premium creams. One pressotherapy programme at a private clinic.
She sat down across from Dr. Holloway and said, very quietly:
"Tell me honestly. Does anything actually work?"
Dr. Holloway opened her mouth to answer. And realized she couldn't.
"I had been recommending things for twelve years," she says. "And I had never stopped to ask: WHY should this work? What is it actually doing inside the body?"
That night, she went home and started reading. Not brochures. Not brand materials. The actual biology — peer-reviewed tissue studies, clinical research, structural anatomy.
Three months later, she had her answer.
And it made her angry enough to write this.