Alex Tarnava

Everything came for devices, trying like buying all these supplements, but I was still taking the naproxen and the cortisol injections too, you know, and maybe nine months after I was ignoring the specialist advice and my GP's advice, but I was still exercising, going to CrossFit.

Yeah, and still CrossFit.

I had stopped martial arts, which I should have kept martial arts and stopped CrossFit.

Right.

I stopped martial arts and I continued CrossFit.

It should have been the worst thing you could have been doing.

It was, but I was...

in such denial, you know, at the time about my situation.

But about nine months into this, I fainted in the gym a few times over a couple of weeks.

I developed multiple ulcers.

I wasn't processing my nutrition.

So I had to stop the naproxen.

And within a few days, all my joints ceased.

I couldn't put on a jacket, couldn't put on socks.

And I realized that nothing I was doing was working.

Just the drugs were working.

You were bandaging the wounds.

Exactly.

So, I mean, in suppressing the inflammation.

Yeah.