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The Mysterious Stomach Issue that Kept Gordon Ryan From Competing for a Year - YouTube
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the jurgen experience how many more
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years do you think that you can maintain
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this level of dedication have you
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thought about this yeah um so it's all
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number one pending my health
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particularly my stomach which is like
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probably 70 better now that's amazing
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like uh
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the last podcast like i told you like i
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literally have no idea what we talked
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about at all besides me telling you that
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i was nauseous because you were trying
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not to so nauseous i was just like come
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on [聽__聽] tell everybody what happened
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so what happened was you got staph
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infection that no enzo's in new york
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city was notorious for giving people
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staff
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that basement because it got no sunlight
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it was down there and you got a bunch of
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savages out there strangling each other
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and sweating in this puddle and it just
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got funky
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right and so you got bad staff so i had
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recurring staph infections in 2018 and
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then uh
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i was taking oral antibiotics and it
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just wiped out everything in my stomach
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like all the good bacteria everything
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and then uh
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i had
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what ended up being a fungal overgrowth
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a massive fungal overgrowth in my small
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intestine and a huge bacterial imbalance
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in my stomach and then h pylori which i
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had
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but it was misdiagnosed as gastroparesis
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because i did a stomach emptying test
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where you eat like radioactive eggs and
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they scan your stomach every x amount of
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like every half hour to see how it moves
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through the stomach and i was emptying
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slow and uh so they misdiagnosed as
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gastroparesis i still have people
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message me every single day who like are
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catching up on the podcast like man i
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just saw joe
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tell me what you did for your
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gastroparesis i'm like i don't [聽__聽]
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have gastroparesis um but uh they
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misdiagnosed it
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after like four years i went to like all
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the best doctors in the country and
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they're just useless like they just oh
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we'll do an endoscopy i had one guy do a
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colonoscopy and uh they're like yeah you
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look fine um and i was like okay well if
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i can't get these doctors to
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to figure it out i guess i'm just gonna
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deal with it hopefully it'll get better
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and then uh it just got worse as time
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went on because the fungal overgrowth
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just started getting worse and worse
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and then it was like affecting my kidney
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function and it was just like awful and
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then i had like
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partially i took a leave of absence i
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guess i like retired from grappling from
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a year because i couldn't even like
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function as a human being and never mind
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like i couldn't even like hold the
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conversation i was so nauseous all the
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time um
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and then uh we were doing the podcast
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and i was like traveling i was like
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looking at houses in austin because you
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convinced me to move to austin and i was
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here like eating restaurant food like
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three days before and we went to the
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podcast and i was like [聽__聽] i can't even
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talk right now um
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but uh because you used to have to eat
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very bland food
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but even even even i would just wake up
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like 24 7 nauseous like the best way i
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can describe it is
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the worst hangover you ever had like
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where you want to throw up to feel
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better but you can't that's like my
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baseline and then it gets worse from
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there and then like imagine you go to
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training
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and like
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now picture you have the worst hangover
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you've ever had and you have to run a
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marathon 30 minutes later like the more
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tired you get the worse it gets
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um so then i was like yeah i just i
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can't do this anymore
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and then somehow like the stars aligned
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and actually his doctor in california
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because he had some bad stomach problems
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he's like you gotta go to dr rabar uh in
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in california um and i saw him and he's
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like yeah i don't think you have
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gastroparesis i think you just have
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uh uh something in your small intestines
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which is backing up into your stomach
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and causing like a bile and food back up
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and that's why you're emptying slowly
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and it's mimicking gastroparesis so he
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did a bunch of tests that no one's ever
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done and like my levels were like way
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off like one of the things was like
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normal was between like zero and five
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and then high
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uh was like uh like over five or over
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ten and my level was like 555. it was
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just like like 50 times what it was
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supposed to be
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so
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he uh so i've been on this treatment now
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for a year uh a year in october and uh
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i'm like 70 75 better now i can actually
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hold the conversation i can eat food i
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can like do [聽__聽] um and now i'm
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competing again but uh so are there
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cases in like medical literature that
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talk about people taking high levels of
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antibiotics over because you took it
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over a 12 month period right you were
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constantly on antibiotics yeah because
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so basically you take the antibiotics
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and it wipes out the
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good bacteria in your stomach
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and then your immune system is trying to
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fix that so then your immune system's
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low it's not as strong as it usually is
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and you're training on training all the
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time so i'm always just run down and
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then you get staph again and then you
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take more antibiotics
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and then it wipes out your stomach even
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worse so then your immune system on
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overdrive trying to fix it and then you
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get stuff again so you just it's like a
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cycle where you just keep getting staph
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and keep
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[聽__聽] up your immune system in your
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stomach so there was probably like a
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year period
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from like 2018 to 2019 where i think
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i was on antibiotics more than i wasn't
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for staff i would like get staff and be
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like on 10 days two weeks of of of
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medicine
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and then
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three days later i'd have staff again
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and i go back on antibiotics like it was
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just miserable
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um and for anybody who's never taken
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antibiotics and tried to work out it's
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it just drains you it just kills you you
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have no cardio you have nothing
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um
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so uh then i started using hippoclens um
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in the shower when i would train it's
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like the soap that they use to wash
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their hands before surgery it's like a
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super strong soap
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and that that helped a lot and then
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i met his doctor dr rabar
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and uh
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now that i'm getting better i hardly
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ever get staff i get like maybe like
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once every six months do you use defense
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hope
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i don't know john was skeptical of that
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but it's because he hasn't seen the
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research on it like defense soap is
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[聽__聽] legit and the good thing about
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it is it doesn't kill any of the bad
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bacteria or the good bacteria yeah
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that's the thing with hibic cleanses
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that wipes out everything that's not
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good um but uh i'll try defense soap
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because like there was like a point
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where if i didn't if i was like on the
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mats and i didn't use hibiclens i was
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guaranteed to get staff i will have them
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send it to you okay but
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my friend guy sacco who runs the company
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he created it because wrestlers like
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they were working with wrestlers they
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were all getting staffed and so he did
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all this research into various essential
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oils and things that are good for
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healthy bacteria but kill off bad
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bacteria so it's got like eucalyptus oil
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and tea tree oil and i'd love to try it
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it also smells good it's the only soap i
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use i'm going to try i use it every day
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but it just it stopped for me it stopped
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all staff ringworm i was getting it all
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the time
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not not all the time but i got two i got
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staffed twice and i got ringworm
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probably three or four times okay so it
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was annoying as [聽__聽] i don't get it at
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all and i wasn't getting it at all when
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i was using it on a daily basis it's
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just it also just like it smells good
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okay it's it's just better like regular
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soap but yeah and they have wipes they
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have all kinds of [聽__聽] that you like
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they have stuff that like even if you
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can't get to a shower immediately they
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have these wipes that look like those
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butt wipes yeah and just [聽__聽] clean
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yourself off with them um
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but i definitely love to try that but
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your original point of how long i'm
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gonna compete for right um so uh so but
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keep going on with that so what did they
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do to how did he what was the medication
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so to fix that so i just got he just got
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like got to my house to do this show and
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uh he's like what all these [聽__聽]
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pills i literally have like 30 pill
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bottles that i have to take twice a day
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and it's just a combination of like
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over-the-counter stuff um to help me
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there's like nothing that's in there
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that that's a that's prescription but he
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gave me uh
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i'm on a strong oral anti-fungal uh i
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first i did eight first i treated the h
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pylori um and then i'm on a strong
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antifungal
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and then all just like immune and like
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gut supporting uh
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medicines that just take time to rebuild
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the gut bacteria and flush out the the
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fungus and the and the bad the bad
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bacteria so i know we talked about this
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before in the last time but has you have
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you ever said you know i'm gonna take
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like a month and just
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do some serious hardcore fasting and see
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if that helps so i did do the fasting um
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it wasn't my choice i just literally
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couldn't eat um but i i did i i did try
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to do uh probably about three weeks of
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fasting um and uh
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it just it didn't help uh i think that i
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i needed the medicine i the first
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success i had was when uh you introduced
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me to brigham with the ways to well
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so they gave me you know a bunch of
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stuff which increased my appetite a lot
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and was helping i was able to because my
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main thing is keeping weight on and
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gaining size i'm like a very i'm big but
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i'm a small heavyweight
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um so i might depending on my stomach
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i'd be 205
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you know one day and then i have a good
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month and then i'm 225 230 then i'm back
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to 210 and my weight would fluctuate
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based on how much i could eat so they
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they put me on this regimen and uh they
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gave me uh you know a bunch of stuff
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that increased my appetite so i got
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super big but i was still getting
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nauseous so didn't like fix the problem
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i could eat more but then i would just
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be nauseous after
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um so then i was using a combination of
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the ways to well stuff uh with his
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doctor
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and now
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their stuff makes me more hungry and i
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can actually eat food now so
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my everything's getting a little bit
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better and i feel like i used to just
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eat like
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two eggs and i would just feel like
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sitting in my stomach it just wouldn't
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filter down so i'd just be carrying food
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all day long and then i'm trying to
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force feed myself to keep the weight on
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and they actually did a test and they're
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like yeah you're not only can you not
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eat but your body's only absorbing like
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60 of the food that you actually do eat
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so i was eating like 10 times less than
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i was supposed to and then just not
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absorbing half of it so it's just like a
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total disaster how much longer do you
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have to be on all this medication
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uh well i have a uh i have to do i have
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to do a retest like this week i have to
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take a like a pee test and some blood
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work and then i'm gonna do a meeting
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with him on september 20th right after
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adcc
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and then uh he's gonna tell me where to
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go from there we have to see what my
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levels are but uh
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i'm sure he's gonna keep me on a lot of
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the stuff it's just like overall stuff
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to like help promote digestion and and
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overall stomach uh function
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uh but i'm just listening to what he
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says because everything he said so far
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has been accurate
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