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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield and I want to tell you a quick story. A couple of years ago,

my wife and I were in Spain up in the Vittoria region of Spain and I was there competing

in the long-distance world championships. I was actually there to defend my gold medal in

long-distance world championships and my wife was just there to eat pinchos and drink good wine

and watch me compete. But she loves to run and while we were there, she sprained her ankle pretty

badly on some cobblestones and I went to our hotel concierge and asked if there was anyone in the

area who was really good in the field of sports medicine who could help her out. He wound up

directing us to this tiny little kind of back alley where this apparently well-renowned

physician and sports medicine expert lived and we went there, we knocked them in his door, we went

up about three stories to this tiny little room and this guy basically had a massage table more

or less and this laser device which you really don't see all that often over here in the states

but apparently is a little bit more popular in Europe and he did a laser treatment on my wife's

ankle which was pretty bad like she was hobbling when we were walking around trying to find this guy's

place and it was literally within about an hour that her ankle was almost completely pain-free

and she was walking and the next day she ran. Now lasers are something that are kind of hard to

understand it's difficult to see how something like that could actually have an effect like this

and it's something that I personally don't completely understand but I have somebody on the

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