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red light therapy is as a pain management tool.
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Right.
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It's natural.
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It's not evasive.
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I want to get people away from drugs.
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If you can fix yourself on a cellular level.
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That's where you're going to start seeing some long lasting change.
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I've seen them healed and have no pain with devices that are not even a hundredth of the power of what of what I've created.
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Do you want to try out?
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And I was like, yeah, I was just,
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let's go.
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let's do it.
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Yeah.
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Hurry up.
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Savage.
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I'm a savage man.
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Let's go.
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All right.
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Welcome to the new way to in podcast.
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Let me host Jonathan Astacio.
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And today we're talking with John Graham, who is a season certified master trainer and leader in the fitness industry with over 15 years under his belt.
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We'll discuss his experiences with sports and fitness injuries and explore how he's leveraging red light therapy to enhance health benefits and improve athletic recovery.
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Now, before we begin, if you want to be alerted to more content and you like what you're seeing when see more, just like, and subscribe wherever you're listening or watching and send feedback and questions via new age, human.
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Now with that said, let's get to the show.
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Right.
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John Graham.
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Thank you for coming to the show.
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How's it going, man?
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Thank you.
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Yeah, I really, um, obviously, I very, very much appreciate the opportunity to share.
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It's a big help.
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Um, I'm obviously running a business.
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I've gone through so many grinds.
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So whenever I'm able to share on a platform, it's always much appreciated.
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I'm getting access to your audience, to your listeners.
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You know, you've built that trust and I'm very glad that you've transferred that trust over to me and I'm able to share.
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Thank you.
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Yeah, for someone that has some innovative technology and maybe alternative health and you're like a double whammy.
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I'm like, Oh, we got to get this guy on.
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I am definitely interested in getting into what you're working on now, but before we go into it, I want to get into what you were doing before you started working on this What you're doing now, you know, you, you started like with the technology, the inventions, the alternative health, um, let's unpack that you're, you're an athlete.
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What's, what started your journey?
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Yeah, I mean, I guess, uh, if where it all started was a skinny boy with red hair, white skin, you know, freckles, you can imagine not, not much going for him and he's thinking like, geez, I need to get my shit figured out here.
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I need to like, I need to, um, you know, plant my flag.
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Who am I?
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What's my purpose?
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So I, I gravitated towards the gym, you know, when you're building muscle, you're putting on the, you know, these, this muscle you're putting on armor and the armor protects that insecure, little, little scared, uh, unconfident boy that I was.
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Um, and, and this is like, oh, you know, over all the years, you know, competing, having a lot of trials, uh, lots of injuries, you know, um, I've sort of identified, you become more self aware and you kind of track back where, where your whole journey came from and you sort of understand More about the hero's journey that we all have.
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Um, but yeah, like when I, when I went into bodybuilding and I was competing, I met a lot of bodybuilders and some of these guys were very famous, very competent, like very well known, you know, uh, champions.
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But I remember getting to know them very intimately.
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You and you, you realize that there, there's like, there's a, there's there, they're just protecting that little child, right?
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Yeah.
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Cause you train together, you boost each other up.
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Come on, get going.
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And you realize that they were not very, very confident.
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And, um, I kind of realized like, wow, all the, all these bodybuilders are like that.
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All these, the bigger these guys are, the smaller, the little teddy bears inside.
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So, you know, going back to me, that's very much how I was.
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I kind of realized like, well, that's how I was.
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That's how I started.
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So, you know, going through.
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Going through, um, you know, my history and going back.
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I obviously got very fit.
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I wanted to compete.
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I wanted to show how, um, you know, how I could dominate in something.
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It's in an activity in a sport.
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So I got into rugby.
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Um, my, uh, my coach at the time, he sort of said I had a lot of promise.
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He said, you know, keep doing what you're doing and you could be going into the leagues, you know.
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Um, and as an Australian, I, um, you know, Australians need to play cricket.
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They surf or play rugby.
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You got to do one of these things, right?
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That's, that's the Aussies, what the Aussies do.
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Um, so being a good rugby player kind of was something I wanted to be kind of to help my, um, you know, my Aussie identity, hang out with the boys, have the, have some beers, you know, and then play a bit of, you know, get, get some rugby on.
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But, um, I remember my first tour going out.
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I popped my shoulder and had like a micro fracture on the on my shoulder bone.
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Um, which is obviously really, uh, was a real downer because, um, tour when you're on tour, you're over your, you know, you've, you've left your club, you're going to play against other clubs and you're with the whole team and it's your, you know, you've all flown flown over.
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You've all, you know, you've kind of you're all like in this jolly mode, camaraderie mode, and then you're the guy that gets get seriously injured.
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And it was, I mean, the medics on the field couldn't fix it.
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I had to go to a hospital, which is a real, real pain.
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But, um, after, after about six months of rehabbing that I went back out and I popped the other shoulder wasn't as bad of an injury, but it basically was like, It was very clear, like, don't play rugby.
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This isn't your sport, you know?
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So I was like, where, you know, where am I going to go from here?
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I need to play something.
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I need to do something.
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I need to compete.
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I need to keep, you know, this is my identity, right?
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You're, you're messing with, I got to figure myself out here.
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So I went into CrossFit, which was, um, uh, it was quite trendy at the time.
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It was getting, you know, it was becoming, you know, everyone wanted to compete in.
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It was kind of a, the new thing.
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Is it a sport or is it not a sport?
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It is a sport, you know, you know, it's, you know, it's, It was very like, um, CrossFit is still is.
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It's very like, um, tribe, tribe mentality, you know, you would gather with your, with your other fellow trainees and you support your, you know, your local box or whatever it was.
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Um, but I just want to compete.
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I was very interested in the competitive side because it was You know, people that were competing in CrossFit were considered the beasts, the savages.
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Right.
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So I was like, yeah, that'll be me.
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I'll do that.
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But, um, just, you know, it's, it's like, it's like gym workouts, but in a sport format with a leaderboard and scores is kind of the, it's, it's done it, but it's, it is just basically gym workouts.
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Right.
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But, um, it's high volume, high load.
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If you're doing, you know, If you're doing a, um, a CrossFit workout and you're competing, it isn't just about doing a lot of reps very fast.
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You, you also have to lift heavier weights, which kind of makes it the competitive side, like where, where you're, you know, competing in the, in the top tiers is when there's a lot of weight added to those high number, you know, um, workouts.
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Right?
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That does sound like a sport because you have a score.
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I guess you could technically call something a sport if you have a scoreboard because like there's teams.
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That's right.
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There's teams and who's, you know, by making the top score, you then progress on to the next, the next thing.
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Right.
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And then the bottom ones get left out.
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Right.
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That's, it's a good, it's a, it's a format that, um, now is obviously extremely popular, but, um, yeah, my knees weren't liking it.
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They basically.
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My, especially my left knee, um, after a while, it just was damaged so much that even to sit down.
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Um, Um, for an extended period of time, say 15, 15 minutes, 20 minutes, the knee would get really, really sore and I would have to straighten it out.
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I have to lubricate it.
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Um, I would always be wearing different bandages.
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I was using heat therapy, cold therapy.
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Um, I was, I was trying to always just keep the joint lubricated because how it would get sore is if it was just stationary, if you would kind of, and especially obviously with, with the cold weather, right?
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Kind of like, you know, it was a lot, a bit of arthritis inside in that knee.
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Um, But, um, um, but then, yeah, so that basically took me out of CrossFit.
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And then during that time, I fell in love with boxing.
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And I remember, um, where was I think it was in Shanghai.
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Yeah, I was in Shanghai, China.
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And I was seeing a friend he was like an architect for He was an architect for a big Dubai firm.
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And I was, I was quite, I opened up many gyms.
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I had like six gyms that I opened up and a lot of them had a combat side to it.
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So I was very familiar with, with, um, combat, but I would from primarily do wrestling, I was more into the wrestling side, the MMA is every MMA was, was another thing that everyone was talking about.
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So.
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But he was into boxing.
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I remember going to his, his studio and there was a, um, a coach, like a famous Dutch coach, and there was like a fight on and she was like, Oh, do you want to, do you want to sign up?
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Do you want to try out?
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And I was like, yeah, I was just,
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let's go.
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let's do it.
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Yeah.
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Hurry up.
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Savage.
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I'm a savage man.
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Let's go.
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But I remember that fight.
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I won that fight and I was like, Whoa, this is now, this is my thing.
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Like.
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It's like when you play golf, you know, when you play golf, you have, you know, you got 18 holes.
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All you need to do is shoot two good holes and you somehow think that golf is your sport.
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You know, it's like, you know, when you, it's like you hit one and it's good.
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And you're like, um, this is, it's the most amazing feeling.
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And then it's like bad shot, bad shot, bad shot, bad shot.
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And then it's one good shot.
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And you're like, I'm still got it.
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Right.
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It's
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You forgot about all the other horrific decisions and bad shots.
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That's funny.
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Yeah, I just somehow got it in my head like boxing.
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Yeah, this is it.
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This is, and I mean, I was, I was, I was pretty, I was, I was good for my weight from, you know, for the level that I was fighting and for, you know, where I came from, but, um, doing amateurs and fighting for a number of years, I started to get headaches and I would have like a point in my head here would really hurt.
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And it would, you know, sort of start to affect my eye and I was like, Oh, that's weird.
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And then it would come to my back.
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It was these little points.
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It was like someone was pushing their finger into my, um, into my brain.
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Um, and then I went, yeah, I went to the doctor.
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I was like, you know, just, let's just have a check.
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Let's just make sure everything's in order.
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And he saw that there was a tumor in my head
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Oh,
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he said it was caused by micro traumas to the brain.
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Because he said, like, did you fall when you were a kid?
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Did you have, like, a serious fall or injury?
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Did you, were you in a car accident?
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Um, and I was like, no, no, it's not.
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I mean, I, I, I just do boxing.
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And he was like, well, yeah, that's probably if you were.
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If you get hit a lot, you're creating micro traumas and this tumor's developed.
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It's not benign, it's just, it's growing to your brain and it could kill you.
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Um, and we need to get it out because as it grows it gets difficult to remove this, this tumor and it's pushing itself into your brain.
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Um, and I was like, well, how long?
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And he was like, well, like I don't know how long, but you need to get it done this year.
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This year we need the surgery done.
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So I had this surgery finished and it came out, it was like the size of, you know, the top of my thumb.
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It was about that big and I remember thinking like, wow, that's a, that was not supposed to be there.
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Um, but, um, after that he was just like, the doctor told me like, do not do any, you know, contact sports, impact sports, you're just not conditioned for it.
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Uh, and then I kind of had a bit of a downer, you know, like wasn't feeling, you know, I was like, well, what's my thing then?
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But, um, I found bodybuilding and bodybuilding is very safe.
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It's bodybuilding is just dieting.
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It's just dieting.
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Right.
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And I, you know, I had a lot of bodybuilder friends growing up.
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You know, I had some, you know, famous female champions, you know, that, you know, actually quite a few females that were, um, that were competitive.
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I used to train with a lady, a Ukraine lady who was like, Had like 30 competitions under her belt and She was like the the male version of me like we were whatever way I lifted she would lift like she would do
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And you're a big dude.
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I mean, I'm just seeing from your
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Oh, you can imagine
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can only imagine,
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was.
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She was, she was a big girl.
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But um, but yeah, it's fun because you don't, you, you, it's very low, low injury.
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You just take care of your body, you know, just diet.
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And I never thought of going in and being big and being the biggest guy.
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I just wanted to come in, you know, and represent myself as someone who is very cut, very lean.
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Um, and my first competition, I did, uh, I came second place in my category, which was good.
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It was like an MPC level event.
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So it was actually pretty like, Whoa, maybe this is my thing.
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Um, and I got really into it and I did four competitions back to back, uh, for seven weeks, which, um, Yeah, you're not, you're not supposed to do it like that.
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You're supposed to do like one competition at the beginning of the year, maybe another one, and then you, then you de load for a year and you maybe do one at the end of the year.
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Wow.
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And you've
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I remember the last competition I did.
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a
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Um, you get what's called a salt rebound, like a water rebound, sorry.
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And because you, you've, you've burnt, you've got rid of all the fat and now you're trying to get rid of all the water.
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You're trying to dry so that when you look at the muscle, you don't see any, there's no liquid.
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It's just must skin and muscle, right?
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It's like this.
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And, um, this.
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So when you're drying your body out and you're like next competition, next competition, next competition, you're going through a large period of time where you're dry.
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You're you're basically what happened.
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My body, it just, it just gave up.
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So I had like a water rebound and I started to bloat and my neck really got big and puffy with like, it's like it was swollen and you know, my eyes got really big.
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And my, my, my, my wrists, my ankles, everything kind of bloated out and I was, um, and this happened like this, the, the, the peak week before the weekend.
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Right.
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Which is the competition.
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That's when it started to get really bad.
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And, uh, I was like, damn, I can't, I can't compete like this.
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Like I'm bloated.
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I look like a, you know, I look, I look like a, someone who's got, I look like I've got a disease, like some, something serious.
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I was You know, and, uh, but I was like, Oh, I could, I could, you know, it might go away.
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It might go away.
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And I kept trying all these things to get the, the water out.
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And in the end, um, I took a diuretic and a diuretic is, is a pill you take to, to help you get rid of water.
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They're very, very dangerous pills.
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And usually when they're not really encouraged, it's kind of like the, the, um, you know, the underground.
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Dark side of bodybuilding, you know, they're kind of like old school, you know, most coaches now when they coach you to bodybuild, they, they refuse to use diuretics.
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They don't endorse diuretics because they're very powerful, right?
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They'll, you piss in it and they're dangerous because after competition you have to do a protocol to make sure that you're, you know, your heart doesn't stop.
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Oh my god, that's nuts.
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but yeah, I was like so desperate to get rid of this water.
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Um, so the night before the competition, I popped this diuretic and I was like, I was, you know, the water was going out, the water was pissing out and I was like, and what you do is you, you can't not, so every time, every, the amount of water that you piss out is the amount of water you drink and you try to create this sort of water, water cyclation.