Streamline Learning
Brain by Ian
Discover your Native Brilliance.
— BRYN MAWR PARENT
— GILMAN PARENT
Streamline Learning
Brain by Ian
Discover the system behind your mind — and finally feel at home inside it.
Most people come to me because something brilliant in them has been working too hard for too long. They’ve fought ADHD, anxiety, perfectionism, depression, or dyslexia with willpower and strategy—but never been shown why their brain struggles the way it does.
I created the Native Brilliance Framework to change that.
From test prep to total transformation
At Streamline, we’ve spent years helping high-school students conquer the SAT and ACT.
Brain by Ian is the next chapter—designed for college students and young professionals whose potential is buried under constant stress, brain fog, or emotional burnout.
Unlocking an adult mind’s brilliance is harder than mastering the SAT, because what holds you back isn’t intelligence—it’s environment.
Hidden biotoxins from water-damaged buildings, chronic inflammation, and nervous-system overload quietly distort the brain’s natural learning rhythms. Once those triggers are identified and removed, the brain’s neuroplasticity takes over—and change can happen astonishingly fast.
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Is my dorm making me sick?
Humans have basic needs. One of them is clean air. The White House reports that Indoor Air Quality is our number one public health emergency, citing school’s air quality as the worst in the nation. For decades, indoor air quality has grown worse with aging buildings and poor construction practices. With so many struggling with a sensitized immune system post COVID-19, college students are experiencing significant cognitive, pyschological, and immunological dysregulation from breathing bad air at school, disrupting their ability to learn. Learn more.
Screen for a brain on fire
Take this 5-minute neuro-inflammation screener at school. Doctors specializing in chronic illness have found the VCS to be an accurate assessment of whether a patient is struggling with a curable condition called Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (CIRS). When combined with at least 7 symptoms across 13 symptom clusters, the VCS produces a 3% false positive rate. The assessment’s results can be validated by specific hormone testing as well as transcriptonomic testing found here. (Note: There is a 20% false negative rate among women.)
Test home and school to identify the culprit
See past the veil shrouding neurological realities at school. Use simple, cheap EPA-developed dust swiffer tests to check for bacteria/mold toxin levels in school (or any old building with dusty HVACs or water damage). We recommend testing for the two most problematic microbes: actinomycetes and endotoxins.
Brain by Ian Coaching: How It Works
From recovery to rediscovery — and beyond.
Every client begins in the same place: smart, capable, and exhausted from fighting their own brain.
Meanwhile, they constantly grapple with expectations they place on themselves or face from others that fail to take into account brain health realities that are unglimpsed.
Our process helps you calm the inflammation, reclaim clarity, and uncover the brilliance that’s been there all along.
Step 1: Extinguish the flames of neuroinflammation
Biotoxin exposure can quietly hijack focus, motivation, and mood.
As a Shoemaker-certified Diplomat, Ian guides you through the Shoemaker Protocol to identify and remove environmental sources of inflammation—helping your brain finally rest, repair, and reboot.
When the smoke clears, clarity returns.
Step 2: Chart a new landscape for brilliance
Once the brain is calmer, we map your environment and your patterns.
You’ll learn how to recognize the buildings and spaces that make you sick—and the Stress Monster loops that appear in yourself and others.
This awareness transforms daily conflict and confusion into opportunities for mastery and empathy.
Step 3: Build back better
With your cognitive landscape restored, you’ll begin to notice strengths that were hidden under stress.
Together, we uncover your Native Brilliance—the natural learning rhythm and problem-solving genius that’s uniquely yours.
This stage feels like coming home to yourself.
Step 4: Follow your heart, pursue your passions, prosper
As your brain stabilizes and your confidence returns, you’ll reconnect with joy, purpose, and creative flow.
We translate newfound energy into aligned action—careers, relationships, and projects that actually fit the real you.
Step 5: Set meaningful goals and dissolve blind spots
Finally, Ian helps you turn insight into progress.
Through reflective conversation and strategic accountability, you’ll refine your goals, confront hidden fears, and keep expanding your brilliance without burning out.
Stress Monsters = Native Brilliance under Chronic Stress
The Beleaguered Belittler
Disrupted Visionary
Perceptive people with powerful pattern recognition abilities whose foresight turns into self-criticism. Once steady, they lead with insight and creativity instead of worry.
The Control Freak
Disrupted Investigator
Precision thinkers who over-plan when the world feels chaotic. Freed from inflammation, they regain calm focus and true mastery.
The Invisible Ingratiator
Disrupted Integrator
Empathic connectors who lose themselves in others. Restoring gut-brain balance gives them powerful intuition without exhaustion.
The Stoic Sentinel
Disrupted Guardian
Steady anchors who withdraw to stay composed. With restored vestibular stability, they re-engage life with quiet confidence.
The Siren Seeker
Disrupted Pioneer
Driven, adventurous minds who chase stimulation to feel alive. When balanced, they become innovators and natural motivators.
The Nonchalant Ne'er-Do-Well
Disrupted Accountant
Reliable systems thinkers who conserve energy by checking out. As energy metabolism normalizes, they reawaken purposeful drive.
The Escape Artist
Disrupted Persuader
Storytellers and visionaries who reinvent themselves to outrun depression and pain. Balanced histamine and rhythm bring coherence, humor, and depth.