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Super curious about how this stuff's going with your kidneys.

I mean, like that's like I think when I peripherally heard it, you know, everybody probably

seemed things the same thing.

Oh, you trained at Westside, you know, the anabolic profiles profiles that rotted him out. But I thought it was a much more

interesting story than that. Yeah, I was one of the few that there that actually followed everything

under a doctor's prescription. So when I was drug free, 2003 was my last collegiate nationals. And so I did men's USAPL drug tests in nationals in 04.

And, um, and I went in because I was just lethargic. And I told my mom, she was a nurse

practitioner like, hey, um, I'm just not feeling real good. Well, she's like, well, you're

training like a fucking asshole. Like no, you're not, you're not recovering. And I said, well, is there any doctors you can send me to to see if my hormone levels and all that stuff are straightened? So she sends me to an endocrinologist. And the endocrinologist comes in after the blood work and looks at me with this confused look. And he goes, how much do you lift again? And I said, well, I just squat at 826 as a junior and he goes, your testosterone level was 300. So it was low. And so he's like,

I don't normally do this, but let's optimize you. He's put me on a half a cc of sippianate. This is

at 24 years old and I switched over to pro and my blood level stayed somewhere

between 850 and 950 throughout my entire career. Oh, wow. And that's what was really interesting.

And every time I went into my normal doctor, it's like, yeah, your blood pressure is a little high,

but it's not high for weighing 300 pounds. It was like 130 over like 88 to 91. You know, not too bad for a power lifter.

Sure. And so 2023, well actually, yeah, 22, I do that Tom Platt squat challenge and I hit

520 for 24 reps. And so nobody had beat 23. And and I was I remember being on the ground for like 20

minutes and just feeling like shit and that was normal for doing something that was world class

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