The Mysterious Stomach Issue that Kept Gordon Ryan From Competing for a Year

So I'm always just run down and then you get staff again and then you take more antibiotics and then it wipes out your stomach even worse . So then your immune system's on overdrive , trying to fix it and then you get stuff again . So you just , it's like a cycle where you just keep getting staff and keep fucking up your immune system in your stomach .

The Mysterious Stomach Issue that Kept Gordon Ryan From Competing for a Year

So then your immune system's on overdrive , trying to fix it and then you get stuff again . So you just , it's like a cycle where you just keep getting staff and keep fucking up your immune system in your stomach . So there was probably like a year period from like 2018 to 2019 where I think I was on antibiotics more than I wasn't for staff .

The Mysterious Stomach Issue that Kept Gordon Ryan From Competing for a Year

Yeah , because so basically you take the antibiotics and it wipes out the , the good bacteria in your stomach and then your immune system is trying to fix that . So then your immune system is low . It's not as strong as it usually is .

The Mysterious Stomach Issue that Kept Gordon Ryan From Competing for a Year

And then uh I had what ended up being uh a fungal overgrowth . A massive fungal overgrowth in my small intestine and uh a huge bacterial imbalance uh in my stomach and then H pylori , which I had um but it was misdiagnosed as gastroparesis because I did a stomach emptying test where you eat like radioactive eggs and they scan your stomach every X amount of like every half hour to see how it moves through the stomach . And I was emptying slow and uh so they misdiagnosed as gastroparesis .

The Mysterious Stomach Issue that Kept Gordon Ryan From Competing for a Year

Yeah . Um So it's all number one pending my health , particularly my stomach , which is like probably 70% better . Now .