Dan became the company's first medical tourist when he traveled three hours to Gundersen Lutheran Health System in western Wisconsin for back surgery.

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Stray-Gundersen worked for the Norwegian Olympic Committee from 1997-2002, sealing bedrooms of the country's top Nordic athletes and adjusting the oxygen and nitrogen content of the air, so they could sleep in a simulated high altitude environment (he was the scientist who developed the concept of living at high altitude to increase hemoglobin levels).

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