Neils Story V3
Neil Dyer · Navy SEAL, retired · North Idaho
Everything else that ever helped him required him to stop.
Surgery cost him months. A thrown‑out back cost him close to a month, flat, every single time. The thing he uses now has never once asked him to put his life on hold — and for a man built the way he is, that turns out to be the whole argument.
What downtime actually costs an operator
For twenty years, being hurt and being sidelined were the same thing.
Neil wrecked his shoulder as a student in Hell Week. Hell Week wants your hands up over your head for a good part of it — logs, boats, the things a crew carries together. He couldn’t lift his arm past a certain point. He finished the evolution anyway, because in his world you don’t stop.
That was the beginning of a career now more than twenty years long. One surgery since, and atrophy in the nerve. It never came back the way it was.
But the shoulder is only half of it. The other half is arithmetic. Every time he has thrown his back out on squats — and he has, repeatedly, his whole adult life — the price has been close to a month of being useless.
A month is not a recovery time. For a man like this, a month is the injury.
Surgery means months. A clinic machine means an appointment, a drive, and someone else’s calendar. Every option he had ever been offered came with the same hidden clause: first, stop living.
The same man, two different lines
One of these has gaps in it. The other one doesn’t.
The question isn’t how much a thing helps. It’s how much it interrupts.
Every option before this
Shoulder surgery.Months — and “never been the same”
Back thrown out on squats.Close to a month, flat, every time
A machine in a clinic somewhere.An appointment and a drive
Training around an arm that won’t go past a point.Twenty years of working around it
What he does now
A few protocols in the morning.Before the day starts
Wears it while he works.2.4 ounces. No interruption
Two trips in the last month.It went with him
A few more before bed.Lying down anyway
Both columns are drawn from what Neil described in his own interview.
When he hurt his back this time, he found the pre‑programmed lower back protocol and ran it. His account: about a couple of minutes in, the pain subsided by a substantial amount. The month never arrived.
“And I did that same back workout two days ago.”
2018 · Iraq
The first time it worked on him, he was deployed and he never came off the line.
Neil was in Iraq with SEAL Team One. His wife Danisa was home in San Diego, and she’d heard about frequency therapy through friends at a Bible study. She told him about it. He told her it sounded like voodoo and he wanted nothing to do with it.
So she arranged for the work to be done on his shoulder through a practitioner who offered PEMF and energy therapy, and said nothing about it. Some time later she asked him how he was feeling, and whether he’d been able to work out. He answered honestly, and in answering it he described exactly the thing this page is about:
“It’s not interfering with work. I’m training while I’m out here. This has actually been pretty amazing.”
He didn’t take leave for it. He didn’t come home for it. He didn’t sit anything out. He was mid‑deployment, doing his job, and the only thing that changed was that his shoulder stopped getting in the way.
Then Danisa told him what she’d done. “Ha. Got you.”
Eight years on, a friend of theirs named Jenny came across the Resona Health VIBE and told him about it. He got back from a work trip and contacted Resona Health directly, as a veteran.
Who else it runs alongside
His wife is two weeks out from their seventh baby.
It’s August in North Idaho, still hot, and the fires are up. Danisa gets headaches this late in a pregnancy. Neil runs the device for her migraines so she doesn’t have to reach for Motrin or ibuprofen while she’s carrying.
“That has been a blessing in and of itself, that she doesn’t have to take any pharmaceuticals.”
Nobody in that house is setting aside an afternoon for this. She is two weeks out from her seventh child, in a hot summer, and the therapy fits around her rather than the other way round.
His sister lives with them. She has lower back trouble as well, and something going on with her lungs that Neil was upfront about not knowing the medical term for. He ran the bronchitis protocol for her and she’s been using it since.
Neil also runs the long anti‑aging sessions, with a caveat he offered without being asked: at 44 he doesn’t expect to feel those doing anything. He plans to look at a photograph in ten years and find out. That is only a reasonable plan if the sessions cost you nothing to run.
Why he’s saying any of this out loud
The men he works with cannot afford to stop either.
Neil runs a nonprofit called Warriors Rise. Half of it is the next generation — building young men who can go out and do hard things. The other half points backward: he brings veterans in alongside him to help run the programs, so the last generation of war fighters still has a task and a purpose after the uniform comes off.
He’s involved with his county sheriff’s department and the county dive team. He’s been linking up with Herd Bull University and the National Christian Foundation, and he hands the device to the guys there to run something on and see for themselves. Lower back, he says, is the one that keeps coming up.
These are men with jobs, families and shifts. The reason he can hand one over and expect it to actually get used is that using it doesn’t require anybody to rearrange their life.
“If it’s got the ability to save some lives and just renew hope and capabilities in guys’ lives when they leave the military, I see a huge benefit with this with our veteran community.”
His stated plan is to buy them in tens and hundreds as he’s able, and put them in the hands of the men who come through his programs.
From the man who built it
Mark Lee Fox built the VIBE because of a number.
Forty‑four suicides a day among veterans and first responders. He’s a former Space Shuttle chief engineer who moved to Utah after Challenger to work on the redesign, and he had spent years watching this technology sit locked inside expensive machines in clinics — which is to say, watching it stay somewhere people had to travel to.
“It’s criminal that this technology — there’s not an affordable device that people can use.”
So the first study Resona Health ran was on PTSD. More than 200 participants, measured on the PCL‑5 — the Veterans Administration’s own 20‑question instrument — before and after 30 days. 98% showed measurable improvement. 66% showed clinically significant improvement.
There are thirty or forty of these sitting at the Pentagon. A two‑star general looked at the results and said that if this really works for PTSD, it ought to be standard issue for every soldier. The head of PTSD at the Veterans Administration told Mark he couldn’t accept them even for free, because that would constitute an endorsement.
Which is why it reaches people through men like Neil instead of through institutions.
2.4 ozAbout half the size of a phone
60Built‑in protocols
600+Published studies on PubMed
It works by resonance rather than intensity, which is why it can run quietly in the background instead of being something that happens to you.
The device Neil is using
It fits around your life instead of interrupting it.
A few protocols in the morning. A few before bed. It goes in a bag. Nobody has to take a month off, book an appointment, or stop doing the thing they do.
Neil Dyer is a Resona Health affiliate and earns a commission on purchases made through this page. It costs you nothing extra and it supports the work he does with Warriors Rise.
The VIBE is a low‑risk general wellness device. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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