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And it's like when you feel like you're a part of something that's bigger or you feel like that conversation with her that then brought, you know, because you were a part of that entire community. It's that intertribal dependency of like we were all a part of that chain of things that made something happen and it was special. and you know know, it's, it's why community changes everything.

It's why power athletes so special.

It's why we all keep coming back for more.

Yeah, not show up and get a certificate or in your place.

Well, I think what happened was the part of my brain that was damaged when I played football

is the part of the brain that deals with sympathy and empathy.

And so basically it just made me an insensitive bastard for a long time where I had zero empathy and no like emotional connection with people. And then I sort of got. And then when I retired from the NFL, like I went on this like kind of fact-finding mission to try to figure out because I knew something was wrong. Yeah. And things like, I don't know, I mean, I started the ketogenic diet, which kind of they fixed a little bit, but then the big one was exosomes. So I went out and saw Tom Inclin on and he's like, hey, we have these exosomes, which is the RNA between the stem cells. He's like we've, you know, distilled them down. There's like, you know, a trillion or X in this bag.

And he's like, I want you to do an IV.

And, um, the stem cells. He's like we've, you know, distilled them down. There's like, you know, a trillion or X in this bag. And he's like, I want you to do an IV. And so I did the IV and I didn't really

notice anything. And then like probably like 18 hours later, I all of a sudden felt this like warm

buzz. And what happens is the exomes are so small they go, they move across the blood brain barrier.

And whatever was in that bag, fixed whatever was going on beforehand. Come on. I swear to God. One dose. Yeah, one dose. It was huge. And then I came home and then we did the hyperbaric treatments last winter. I'm going to die and to ask you about those. The hyper barracks, which is wild, is that at the lower atmospheres,

like 2.2 is what I did at. The body doesn't need hemoglobin to move oxygen around. So basically

the oxygen will dissolve into plasma. So parts of the body that would never get oxygen,

got oxygenated. And so after like eight weeks, so it's 40 sessions over eight weeks,

like I noticed a huge

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