‘Live a Better Life’: New Canaan Man’s Energy Bar Company Marks One Year 

A career entrepreneur, Ryan Lee hit on his latest business idea about two years ago, toward the end of a period of declining health. It had started 10 years before, after Lee and his wife had their fourth child and he started gaining weight. His mother died the following year and then he was diagnosed with an auto-immune disorder. While on vacation in 2017, Lee found that none of his clothes fit. HIs joints hurt, he could hardly walk, and his auto-immune flared up.