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Folks, I'm talking to David Wood, continuing to talk with David Wood about his life story.

It's moving.

It's fascinating.

In some ways, in retrospect, it's extremely amusing.

Maybe because we know it turned out pretty okay.

David, you know, you're a Christian today. You debate people. You've always been really smart.

But to go back to where we were a moment ago in this conversation, I mean, you knew you were smart.

And so here you are in this bizarre situation. You meet this Christian and it leads to you being put in a cell with cameras because they think you're trying

to kill yourself, which in a weird way, what you're doing, I mean, not eating for weeks, it might have done that. And didn't at some point

they tried to force feed you? No, they were warning me that they were going to force feed me.

They said, they explained it. They said, your body's going to use up all your fat, which by this time,

it was almost gone so

it was 235 pounds or so when i got locked up i got down to around 150 but uh once i started hitting

you know one you know 165 and 160 and 158 you know you just dropping every day um the doctor said

you know at first your body's going to use up all the fat, and then it's

going to turn to muscle. And once it turns to muscle, it will actually start turning to even your heart and stuff like that. And so he says, you mean, you don't mean the fat's going to turn to muscle. You mean your body's going to start consuming your own muscles. Yeah, the body's going to turn to muscle, turn to muscle as an energy source.

And so he said they can determine when that happens through blood tests. to turn to muscle, turn to muscle as an energy source. Right.

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