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the jurgen experience that was my first time after the sunsal fight since the km is a ghaki fight that i didn't get injured i tore tendons and ligaments and stem cells out for eight weeks to you know and then you know so i was like man i was back in the gym monday hungry to go and then [ __ ] covet get covered get title shot i'm like i'm about to fight figgy at 25. you got kovid bad right were you did you get coveted in the were you in the middle of training when you got it like were you worn out dead i was doing one training session and actually i started the whoop and i was like man like my recovery score is one percent in the morning my hry was like 13 it was one percent for like a week and i would only do one workout and then i'd have to cancel on chris and my lot i'm like one percent is dead dude that's crazy but then i was like you know i'm gonna go ride the bike you know i was getting on those bikes doing you know 50 to 100 mile rides and just suffering because i had vertigo really bad so i couldn't get in those uncompromised positions that when did you start experiencing vertigo vertigo was my first symptom of copen not knowing and then i had did you think it was head injury i thought my uh my doctor i went and saw he's like that's a concussion i'm like dude i didn't get hit hard and sparring my fights like i worked on defense a lot like i know i would know if it was a concussive blow that gave me vertigo and um what did you experience it after training did you experience honestly it was during grappling i was like grappling you didn't like collide heads or anything nope just went into a scramble and next thing you know i was just like fighting the hands off and the whole room was spinning and i was actually training with uriah and i was like man he's like yeah all right i'm like what's going on i was like kind
of like didn't want to end in the round so i just kind of like closed my eyes and like held onto his hand so he wouldn't choke me you know he was taking my back so i was finished around and i was like man i just don't feel good i was nauseated for a few days um so i went to my doctor he was giving me like anti-nausea medicine that was making me so much more tired than i was because i was fatigued from from training i was trying to train through it i was like i have a world title coming up in eight weeks like i have to get down to 25 and my weight was good um i wasn't restricting any calories you felt something was off with your body besides the vertigo my body felt like i just was for about a three week period when i was training and i didn't feel like myself at all and just mental clarity was was so do you think during that time you had crovid the whole time i think so you know that is crazy and that makes sense that it hit you so hard because you never gave your body a break and you were beating yourself up while you were fighting off covet well that i think what happened was the kidney infection in the beginning of 2020. i was on all those antibiotics i was on five different antibiotics people don't even notice two weeks before the fight with the sun sao the infection came back so i had to go to another infectious disease doctor that my doctor hill found in sacramento this lady was amazing did two blood cultures found out got all the reports from the hospital in jersey the reports from the specialists in cleveland studied those all in a day got a blood culture i was on the wrong antibiotics i didn't kill the infection just basically put a band-aid over it so i had to go 10 days to iv fusion center to get antibiotic drip for 10 days while i'm training two weeks before the fight oh my god i didn't let any of the ufc or anybody know i told ali it was kind of what was going on because i just needed to get in that octagon i was like dude just put me in
that gun i know that it'll happen like get me there healthy and i'll be good so but that [ __ ] with your endurance in a big way yeah iv antibiotics are ruthless it was tough man it was uh and my strength conditioning coach we were having the hardest time i was hovering around you know i was getting my heart rate up 187 and then i couldn't get it below and like hover at 150 which i'm fine at santa 150 and going up and being in that 150 to 180 zone that i could be there for a while but we're working on the aerobic system so to drop it you know i just couldn't drop it it took about the last week of training before i flew out to the fight week to finally get my heart rate in like 35's like after a hard like a minute 30 push and then drop it down so i noticed something like that was it but mentally i was like it's good so so two weeks out you did you had to do a 10 day cycle of iv antibiotics in a 10-day of um oral what yeah i was on antibiotics for literally five months almost from jersey i was on five different antibiotics from the hospital so from the ascension fight how many days did you have when you weren't on antibiotics before the fight i mean i declared that i had i was on antibiotics all the way up to the fight you know i was taking a lot of antibiotics right yeah i was talking so you were taking probiotics to counteract the effects of a lot of probiotics yeah what are you taking um frankie edgar's wife sent me uh she would do they were they took care of me when i was in jersey like hooked it up like coach brought me pizza in the hospital he was like it was during coco pizza but don't you have to cut weight i don't cut weight to 35. really dude i'm like right now probably 144 oh wow like i don't i and i stay you know strong and fast and this is why i feel good at the fight 35 yeah i have to just diet a little bit like
everyone else does for 25 that's what everyone's making is a big yeah we're going to 25 it's not so you basically beat your immune system up while you had covid and then because of that you got covered really bad yes yeah so tell me what it was like i was horrible i mean i had the vertigo was the first symptom right and then when did they test you for kovitz i didn't get tested ty went down to mike tyson's ranch we were working with the smart cups company we're all sponsored by him doing digital videos and it was our first kind of getting athletes together because they started doing fighters boxers and some wwe kurt angle was there so i had to do like a rapid test like we just did here and um i waited to wait a while and they like hey we want you to do another one i'm like all right cool like we just didn't see some things we liked i was like all right i'm like waiting for an hour do another one i'm like what did you guys another test yeah what'd you guys see i'm like oh you failed the first one i'm like well that's a subtle way you're telling it like i want to stay away from everybody like you know everyone's coming up to me and so i tested there in august um and then i went you know quarantined went home did the whole did you do any medication what did you do um i did a z-pack um i got on an inhaler because i had pneumonia i got pneumonia vertigo and then i did it like a 21 day because i had it so bad i kept getting tested like every three weeks and you kept having i kept having i did molecular tests which was like night you know some of the best ones to do is that the pcr test yeah we're talking about yeah and just kept negative negative my doctor's like hey we're going to quit testing you you know like you mean positive you keep testing positive yeah positive for it yeah and i'm like dang this is this is crazy i mean and i had started to have the symptoms going away like pneumonia was fine my lungs were
good like i felt it like i was that's when i started cycling a lot um so i was out there just pushing the lungs that's what my doctor said was the best thing to do is riding that bike that much is getting those lungs to keep working because you have pneumonia really bad jesus christ wow like i felt horrible i thought cycling was one of the hardest things to do isn't it funny because you would think like most people would think that a guy who's a world championship caliber fighter is the type of guy who would get coveted and it would just burn right through his system but because you were training while you had it and beating yourself up it just got deep into you deep i mean it it took over my body but i think honestly from the kidney infection beyond the antibodies my immune system was so weak how much time was it between the kidney infection the antibiotics and then getting coveted dude i literally got out of the hospital and i texted dana like hey i heard you did a press conference about having a fight um my kidney levels are good i'm waiting for maybe have to do a biopsy but i want to fight he's like all right work on it i was like begging john so you got covered right away um so i then i uh after the fight yeah i had uh so june to august oh okay but uh so it was from the kidney infection the fight two fight camps you know basically one didn't happen uh recovering i've been building myself back up from where i was at getting ready to fight a sunset the first time in march you know i literally had to start walking on a treadmill for a couple weeks to get my i was in rough shape rough shape and i started training at my business partner's house he had a home gym because everything was closed uriah's gym wasn't open he said dude i got a treadmill i got weights kettlebells you know anna kettlebells and so i went over there and just started to to train and i'm like i'm getting myself ready and it was brutal
brutal brutal training getting back in there this is pre-coveted this is pre-covered this is a kidney kitty infection jesus christ but so your body was obviously already compromised oh yeah i was yeah very confident i still on antibiotics he still had me on antibiotics to clean out the infection i was on it for like a 30 day antibiotic from the hospital so august you get covid how long before it clears your system how long before you start feeling good months like i literally i went to miami and worked with this company called amino wells and they did like kind of injections uh we talked about kind of stem cell injections throughout my body arms um and i kind of started to feeling a lot better at like the week after that i did a month on the injections with the three milliliters a week and i felt really good body felt good clarity went away i actually had to go to arizona the mayo clinic dana thought i had meniere's disease so i went and saw his doctor that did his surgery to give him shot in his ears did all these testings hearing tests um did you have ringing in your ears i had ringing bad at my left ear and there's um i have a loss of uh hearing in this year and they don't know why i think maybe because i'm this is my lead lead and you get hit in the left ear that's all i can say i'm like i don't know i haven't shot a gun without you know anything like that you know trying to just figure out why it's ringing it makes like this popping noise um and i was just getting so like dizzy i couldn't even do anything i'm saying so that's probably ten contributed to the vertigo for sure right they said it wasn't officially it's ear things yeah they said like crystals i had vertigo before i work with upmc i was out for a whole year my pro debut broke my hand had vertigo from crystals being out of the air went to the upmc crystals crystals yeah was that an irregular tube
that was throwing my equilibrium off which basically is positional vertigo a lot of it's that's the most common one you know a lot of people just you know they can sneeze wrong or do something sleep wrong on their neck and they have vertigo and there's a maneuver you do to put it back but it wasn't positional vertigo it was just literally coveted that had me so messed up so your body was so compromised from the antibiotics the kidney infection a second kidney infection so you were just basically getting your your health back which is crazy that you beat a sun sao in that state yeah because you could you had to be clearly compromised there's no way you could have been 100 if you were going if you went through that much antibiotics before that fight but i think that goes back to the my mental state where it was that i knew that i needed to get in that octagon and change this around i was not living a life like this i was tired of living on a three-fight skid i was ready to get back in there and when you know like for me like i like we talked about earlier with the tgs fights i don't have to go in there and be angry and upset and want to rip this head i got there hate this guy i have hatred for this guy it's a flip to switch like when you know you have it in you you don't you know and that that's been bread in me i've have it um so i just needed to get in there i was like not taking no for an answer i mean my coaches and stuff like oh i don't know if you're going to make it you know and coach mark i'd call him because we basically did i would film my pad work and my sparring rounds and send it to coach on whatsapp and then he would break everything down do more of this do less of that looking good looking fast on the you know your left hook counter off things like that so we did virtually you know camp through there so then when he came out so i kept working the codes to you know keep working your codes keep working you know and make sure you're doing under nine things like that um
then when we came to fight week it was just so talk me through you getting you got coveted tested in august at the tyson joe you knew that you had it when when are you free of it like this is the first test that i've passed since really today my doctor would test that february february yeah jesus see how excited i was yeah dude i'm free i'm free of it it was literally you know a couple months of having it testing it to where my doctors i'm not going to send out any more tests because there were 72 hour return ones and every time you did it you had it every time i did and this is for months um tested my son he didn't have it i mean we were i was your wife didn't get it um she ended up getting it um but it wasn't as severe it was it was a couple months ago that she got it um two months ago her twin got it and it was kind of you know they were sick but not like what i had like i was just yeah well you're a perfect example of you know obviously you're a super healthy guy and an elite athlete but when you put yourself through training camp there's only one way to get in shape you got to beat yourself up there's no there's no other way around it's true and when you are so tough that you push through even though you had covid and you let that [ __ ] get deep into your system there's a lesson in there for people you know because there's tough tough's important yeah you don't get where you get without being tough but there's there's also you you got to be you got to be able to take a step back and go it's not wise to push sometimes and i think honestly if i got tested before having kovan then i mean before i first had the first like i've had you probably never got it you probably would have had it for a couple of weeks or whatever and yeah exactly it wouldn't be as it
took over my body then i came back and i hit pads the first time like dude i'm i'm in great shape because i was cycling 100 miles you know we had a hard pace we were riding four or five times a week you know building the legs up and so i started hitting pads again i was excited like i'm back in the gym i can be around people because on the bike i was just on the bike trail on the road just you know suffering on the bike came back hit pads the first time and man i my bicep was so sore and that i remember going to sleep that night and waking up excruciating pain wow and my bicep was just filled up with blood like this i thought i tore my bicep so i went to my doctor and he ultrasounded it and he thought it was a distant bicep tear you know deemed it that i'm like i gotta call dana and tell them like hey i'm just turning my bicep i'm gonna then get the mri get the mri nothing's torn it was a uh guy then i had to go get a urgent ultrasound i tore my vein in half and it ripped in half wow and then i had three blood clots so i was immediately they started injecting me with blood thinners i was on i've been on blood thinners for you know since yeah this is because of cove that's another thing that happens with people that severe cases of covid they get blood clots didn't know and my business partner jeremy perkins he owns uh pnp medical which they work with covid or they work with blood clots they have you know some the devices they sell to doctors and hospitals and the whole time he's like dude i think you have a blood clot i'm like there's no way i have a blood clot that's the number one silent killer in in the nation is blood clots because people don't know they have it i had three of them in my arm didn't even know that's crazy i just had like my arm was sore for a while so you're on blood thinners now i just finished up my last i was on blood pressure for almost three months catch new episodes of the joe rogan
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