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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hey everyone, this is Dr. Rucho.

I am here today with Damien, who has had some very good results with changing his diet and

using probiotics amongst other things. And he was nice enough to take a moment to discuss his case with us.

So Damien, thank you for taking a moment, and I'm excited to share your story.

Of course. Thank you for talking to me, and thank you for all your help.

Definitely.

Can you give us kind of the short synopsis on what was going on before you and I first connected?

I think I had reached a point probably somewhere around a year ago where my digestive system had pretty much just completely and utterly

collapsed. And I think it was due to a lot of factors, things like most of my life, you know,

as a child, we lived in poverty,

so we didn't eat the healthiest food. And then I ended up spending 20 years on death row

for a crime that I didn't commit and just the stress of that combined with the malnutrition,

lack of sunlight, and then getting out here and excessive drinking to help deal with

post-traumatic stress disorder.

All of these things took a horrendous toll.

And I reached a point where, to be honest, I thought I was going to die.

Like, I thought that I had maybe a couple of months left to live at the most because I felt so horrible and I could not maintain my body weight anymore because I had

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