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My name is Ben Greenfield. Welcome to the show.

So Jay, how are you doing this morning?

I'm doing pretty well, Ben. How about yourself?

I'm a clinch-in. I'm clinch-in hard, man.

Oh, I'm three days into a bout of giardia that I appear to have contracted during this last weekend's wilderness survival course that I did.

Amongst other things, we made water filters, right, like out of charcoal from the fire and find particles of sand.

It's all that I want to Instagram.

Yeah, and some leaves. It sounds good on paper.

But after three days of drinking from the creek by our campsites, my only suspicion is that at some point,

one of the homemade filters that I made failed are the first batch of water that I kind of allowed to drip through it, didn't completely clean out what was in the water, or what was in the cold or the sand or what I mean,

who knows? It could have been poop particles in the frickin' sand.

I don't know, but I have literally been working, visual for people, podcasting, blogging, book editing, article writing, everything from my bed and the toilet.

So this is the first day I've actually been able to get down into my office. I went on a little light walk in the sunshine this morning, but I'm managing it naturally rather than using the traditional antibiotic regimen for giardia, which actually, I don't think a lot of people know this.

I'll link to, because I've been researching hardcore, not just giardia, but parasites in general, because anytime something like this happens to me, my go-to is I research and figure, hey, hopefully I can give some other people some good advice and figure a few things for myself.

But some of these antibiotics that are traditionally used for giardia can cause, well, almost similar to other antibiotic regimens, not only the emergence of antibiotic resistance, giardia-like organisms, but also recurrence rates that are as high as 90% with a host of pretty nasty side effects.

Metro and Idazali is one or tenet dazali is another and these antibiotics are kind of the go-to traditionally for giardia, but after researching some of the antibiotic regimens, I decided to manage things myself.

And so the idea behind giardia is that you do want to get rid of it pretty quickly, because it can cause some pretty significant damage to the intestinal lumen, meaning that what it does is it damages the intestinal brush border and all these little parasites, you know, as they hatch.

One of the things that they do is they damage and parasites, they cause intestinal hyperpermobility, they cause a reduction in enzyme secretion, and they actually tend to feed to a certain extent on bile in the gut.

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