Inflammatory Markers and Parasite Issues

I ask because so many coaches out there come to me and they go you know I'm helping my client with their blood and their urine, their hormones and stuff. I'm just like, oh boy, I mean, you know, people don't understand the level of complexity, right? And this concept of a complex system where I change one thing potentially for the positive. And I don't acknowledge that there could be three other things that are happening on the back end that could be negative from that one positive shift that I made so I'm always curious how coaches especially smart ones approach this type of stuff so you see someone's ILK through the roof right or or their whatever uh you know their sorry IL6 through the roof you know what are we um is there is it just like hey go see your doc you have some inflammatory problems or are we going to go right after the gut Well, I mean, if we're looking at IL-6, that's what you said, right? IL-6? Yep. You're looking at, you know, overall systemic inflammation. So I'm going to start looking at immune system. I'm going to look at their training volume as well. Anytime you train, you're increasing IL-6. I'm going to look at CRP. If CRP, you look at like, if they haven't been sick and CRP is a bit elevated, then I know there's some systemic inflammation. So we want to look at, we might look at white blood cells. You might look at some of the markers there to see if there might be an underlying gut issue as far as a pathogen or bacteria or something like that. A lot of people walk around with subclinical gut infections they don't even know they have, especially on this side of the world, because they all go to third world countries. They go to all these places. They come home with three or four tourists they don't know they have, and they can't figure out why they feel horrible. in Texas we'd go to you know we'd go to Cabo we go to Cancun and the same thing would happen I actually had a guy uh years ago probably 16 17 years ago he was 200 he got 235 pounds pretty short got him down about 190 in a few months he decided to celebrate by going to Mexico I said okay I need you to take um take your hydrochloric acid and take your digestive enzymes take all this up be careful what you eat don't drink the water make sure you're not eating it you know don't go to food like food stalls and eat god knows what unless you're taking this stuff because you're going to get a pathogen he comes back he starts putting on gobs of fat he's putting on like two pounds a week and we couldn't figure out what the problem was um so i sent him to a doctor to get checked out and he had gotten something like seven to nine parasites that He picked up in Mexico and the doctor had to write him a huge protocol to get rid of it. And he got rid of it, but it was crazy because everything that he was doing that got him lean in the first place, nothing was working. We kept pulling calories. It wasn't working. Add cardio, add more training, get more sleep. And it was just the fact that he had a gut issue and that was making all of his endocrinology haywire. Yeah, I got that when I went to Bali, man. I came back and for like eight weeks afterwards, I was just a disaster. I was like, what is this? It was an accident. You know, one time I brushed my teeth. I think I just rinsed off my toothbrush with the water. I didn't think about it. Yeah. That was enough to give me a parasite. Same thing happened to me. Zoe and I went and I was in a pool and I'm swimming in the pool and I accidentally swallowed some pool water. And I'm thinking, surely they put chemicals in the pool to kill everything. Nah, man, I was so sick. It was coming out both ends. I was sleeping on the toilet for three days because every time I stood up, I just had to sit back down. So I took a pillow and I put it on the counter and I just slept on the toilet. And I lost nine kilos in three days. And I finally was I was well enough to go to the chemist to try to get something. And you've ridden the little scooters in Bali, right? Yeah. Like the roads are bumpy. so i'm i'm spending the whole time doing a kegel trying to keep myself from getting my pants and i get to the first pharmacy and i'm like give me some activated charcoal we don't have any i'm like what do you mean you don't have any it's bali you know we're gonna get bali belly so they gave me imodium didn't do anything finally found a hippie fufu place with activated charcoal i took a couple of teaspoons stopped me up i didn't poo anymore but then i didn't shit for two weeks So it was like one or the other. I looked amazing though. I don't know how periodization turned into shitting on a scooter, but that's how a lot of things go, right? Well, it's important. That is part of periodization. When you look at most people look at periodization as far as just the training aspect. But you have to match the nutrition and the lifestyle and you have to match the gut and the brain and the mitochondria and everything else with it. Or you're not periodizing. Yeah.