All right. Hello, everybody. Chris Gethin here and welcome to the Knowledge and Mileage podcast.

It's been a very hard weekend. I just finished an Iron Man over the weekend. And I'm feeling it today.

So my next guest may be able to help me out because from my understanding, he's quite the expert in stem cells.

And maybe I'll need an all-overbody treatment after the weekend that I just had.

So let me introduce to you my very special guest, Dr. Anthony Jay.

Thank you very much for coming onto the show.

Thanks for having me, Chris.

An Iron Man, that's pretty intense.

An Iron Man, yeah.

I competed in a couple last year, and I did a half Iron Man just over the weekend down in Arizona.

And last year I was a lot bigger.

I was like 20 pounds heavier in muscle tissue.

And I decided this year just to see how things would turn out if I lost muscle. So for the past six months, that's been my journey on trying to lose muscle and compete. And everything went okay, except I had some knee issues about six weeks ago. So I had two choices.

Either pull out to the event or not train in the running aspect of the discipline and just

try to show up on a day and see how it turns out.

And I got into about mile seven and it was a limp from there on.

I was pretty much stopping at every aid station just to ice it for about a minute. But, you know, I got through. I was still faster than what I was last

year, but not feeling too good about it this week, you know. So I have actually been looking

into stem cells. So I will touch on that a little bit later, if you

don't mind. I'd love to pick your brain on that. Sure. So one of the things I, this is one of

the major things that I want to talk about. A lot of my followers are in the, you know, their fitness

enthusiasts, their bodybuilders, their triathletes, they're ultra-marathon athletes,

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