Like I had seen all these different elements come into play of how fitness can impact your life and how like cross fit was working for some people and how bodybuilding was working for some and how even the races and it was like okay now I have some tools I have a reason to do it let's go and that's really when I started training almost every single day and started seeing

some pretty quick changes and it's just

amazing because I realized okay yeah there's a lot of things that I can't help there

are a lot of things that were taken out of my control very early, but I'm not going to focus on that.

I'm going to focus on what God has given me the ability to impact.

Like I can choose how I use my time.

I can choose what my activities are. Like doctors they can tell me okay your lungs are

only working at 50 or 60 percent. Your hearts only working at 50 percent. They

can't tell me what I'm going to do with that 50 or 60 percent and it's been a crazy ride

This is episode number 107 with Stephen Douglas

Welcome to pursuing health. I'm Julie Fushe, Family Medicine resident and former

Cross-Vit Games athlete. Here I bring to you information and inspiration from

experts and everyday individuals for how to use lifestyle to maximize health.

Thank you so much for joining me.

Now let's get started with this week's episode.

Welcome back to Pursuing Health. I am very very excited about

this episode because we are doing something that we haven't in way too long on

the podcast. We are bringing on a pursuing health podcast listener to share

how he's used lifestyle changes to overcome some various serious health

challenges. This 24-year-old a young man's name Stephen Douglas, and as you'll soon hear, he is wise beyond his years and has many important lessons to teach us all.

Stephen has faced more obstacles than the average person starting from birth with a heart

defect requiring open heart surgery and you'll soon hear how that obstacle shaped his

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