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My Health Journey

Sheesh, it's been months since I wrote last.  I'm trying to remember exactly where I left off.

My previous post was "How Not to Train for a 50k".  And, shockingly, I did not do a 50k last year.  I didn't even do the 25k, but I did do the 10 mile version of McDowell Mountain Frenzy.  It started out kind of rough, but I pushed through long enough to finish.  I kind of enjoyed it.

Not long after, I started working with a functional medicine doctor to try and determine what exactly I was dealing with health-wise.  I took the entire month of December off from running because I wasn't sure what my body really needed to heal and/or lose a few pounds.

That is the cliffnotes version to get us to today.  I have worms.  Ugh.  

I actually have a bunch of other stuff wrong with me.  My gut is a mess, my microbiome is all out of whack, and there's all sorts of bacterial presence in my system.  My thyroid doesn't work like it's supposed to, but that's nothing new.  I am deficient in a few things like Vitamin D and Iron.  But I think the parasites, ol' Ancylostoma duodenale, surprised me the most.  

Tonight I'll start a parasite cleanse and attempt to heal my gut so I can start to feel more normal again.  I don't actually feel too bad, meaning that I'm not in pain or anything like that.  Some people with autoimmune diseases do have to deal with those symptoms and I am thankful I'm not one of them, yet.  So it's time to try and fix all of this nonsense, hopefully get some of the weight off, and start running again like a normal person.  (Oh wait, the running part is not normal either?)


Thanks, CDC.  Sigh.
https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/hookworm/index.html

I will try not to take 5 months to compose the next post.  Provided I'm more punctual, I will give the details about my cleanse protocol.  

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