Alex Tarnava

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All the time I'd spent training, I just dove into PubMed and just looked for anything that could regulate my inflammatory response and anything emerging.

I was a massive skeptic.

I was involved in skeptic communities.

I hated the supplement industry.

I hated anything alternative.

I actually had a hobby of going onto these pages.

Actually, I know some of the people now and find them to be very good people, but I would troll them and show that they didn't know what they were talking about.

I'm not going to name names, but, uh, um,

I had such a switch when I got desperate.

It was cathartic that I understood what appeals to people to go down that road because there was no amount of money that I had access to that I wouldn't try anything.

If there's a single study in a mouse, I was going to try it to fix myself at that time.

And I found research on hydrogen and hydrogen water.

There was nothing really commercially available.

This is 11 years ago.

There were the water ionizer machines.

Yeah, it's been a while.

Bought a Kangen machine, you know, for like $5,000.

Went on my merry way.

I was going into cryo saunas before it was a thing 11 years ago and real saunas and going to chiropractors, which I'd never done before, and going to naturopaths and trying to