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 .

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

Um So then I was like , yeah , I just , I can't do this anymore . Um And then somehow like the Stars aligned and actually his doctor in California because he had some bad stomach problems . He's like , you gotta go to Doctor Rar uh in , in , in California .

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

Um , and now their stuff makes me more hungry and I can actually eat food now . So everything is getting a little bit better and I feel like I used to just eat like two eggs and I would just feel it like sitting in my stomach , it just wouldn't filter down . Um , so I would just be carrying food all day long and then I'm trying to force feed myself to keep the weight on and they actually did a test and they're like , yeah , you're , you're not only can you not eat , but your body is only absorbing like 60% of the food that you actually do eat .

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 .