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“Two weeks before the fight, once a year they have to do blood work because of the commissions. UFC had me do the blood work; I didn’t look at it, it just went to them directly. But in those numbers my red blood cell count was basically in the trash – really, really bad anemia.”
“Basically everything was trash. Testosterone of a pre-puberty girl, very low testosterone, very high inflammation markers. I just worked myself into the gutter. That’s basically what it comes down to. I I trained way too hard, did too many weight cuts, and I just [expletive] my body up all the way.”
Since the fight I’ve basically felt like [expletive] for two months. Still tired as last time we spoke. Walking up the stairs, I wasn’t able to finish a training session, wasn’t able to recover. If I would train, I would feel like [expletive] for days after.”
“I kind of just went down the rabbit hole and tried to figure out what exactly was wrong. I had my blood work done, did all the performance testing to find out where I’m at, got the scan to see if it’s even smart to stay at middleweight. The Regenerate guys really helped me analyze the blood work results and they put me on a protocol which has really been helping.”
It’s been rough the last couple of months, but it’s very cool to find out what was wrong with me and to see my body coming back. This week of training was the first full week I’ve been going hard twice a day in a very long time. It’s amazing. I almost get emotional talking about it because I finally have my body back.”
“Two weeks before the fight, once a year they have to do blood work because of the commissions. UFC had me do the blood work; I didn’t look at it, it just went to them directly. But in those numbers my red blood cell count was basically in the trash – really, really bad anemia.”
“Basically everything was trash. Testosterone of a pre-puberty girl, very low testosterone, very high inflammation markers. I just worked myself into the gutter. That’s basically what it comes down to. I I trained way too hard, did too many weight cuts, and I just [expletive] my body up all the way.”
Since the fight I’ve basically felt like [expletive] for two months. Still tired as last time we spoke. Walking up the stairs, I wasn’t able to finish a training session, wasn’t able to recover. If I would train, I would feel like [expletive] for days after.”
“I kind of just went down the rabbit hole and tried to figure out what exactly was wrong. I had my blood work done, did all the performance testing to find out where I’m at, got the scan to see if it’s even smart to stay at middleweight. The Regenerate guys really helped me analyze the blood work results and they put me on a protocol which has really been helping.”
It’s been rough the last couple of months, but it’s very cool to find out what was wrong with me and to see my body coming back. This week of training was the first full week I’ve been going hard twice a day in a very long time. It’s amazing. I almost get emotional talking about it because I finally have my body back.”
