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November has come to a close, and, unfortunately, I finally didn't have a day with pain-free time. So what finally claimed my unprecedented streak? It took a second dalliance with COVID to end it. But, despite losing the streak, it was still a month of progress.

October is in the books, and I had yet another month of health improvement despite pivoting with diet to pursue recomposing my body mass and continuing to reduce my reliance on medication. So let's examine how and what I did!

Fall is upon us, and I achieved a significant health milestone! Not only did I finish up my seventeenth five-day water fast on September 1st and was delighted with the results it led to during the rest of the month, but I surpassed the 100-day mark with my pain-free time streak!

There is a lot to cover for my August Health Journey! Pictured above, I revisited the grounds of my high school, where my illnesses of interstitial cystitis and irritable bowel syndrome became chronic and chronic pain started.

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I had pain-free time every day for the entire month and going all the way back to June 22nd. I am ecstatic! It's been over 32 years since I had a streak like this! And it wasn't just moments of relief; each day is now around 80-90% pain-free!

Pain neuroscience is the science of the nervous system and the brain, and how they relate to pain perception. In this article, you’ll learn the most important ways pain works and what you can do to alleviate it! You’ll come to understand how the nervous system and brain create pain, what influences pain, and how the process can go awry.

June is over, and summer is here, so it's time for another recovery story update! I've been enjoying plenty of sunshine and a complicated month that had me experiencing the most days with pain-free time for yet another consecutive month.

It’s time for my May health update! This month had dramatic ups with a lengthy streak of time without pain, and I reduced time between weightlifting sets with no consequences for pain. However, the month also had an extraordinary down when I had the worst case of food poisoning of my life. So let’s examine everything and how I dealt with the illness.

Happy May, and welcome to my May health update! In a continued marvelous run for my chronic neuropathic pain, April was again the best month of my recovery to date. I also found an exciting treatment for chronic pain and other chronic illnesses, which I’ll discuss below. Let’s dive in!

Welcome to my health update for March 2022. It turned into the best month yet for my chronic pain after I fully recovered from my illness at the end of last month. The month had a couple of minor challenges and significant progress.

Welcome to my health update for February 2022. The shortest month of the year is complete, and it was the best yet of my recovery! I experienced an unprecedented leap forward with my health and pain. I had a lot of physical development as well, losing 4.6 pounds and adding considerable weight to my lifts.

Here is my January 2022 health update! This is a short post after covering so much territory in my extensive fifth recovery anniversary health update on January 16th. Still, I experienced more much-appreciated improvements!

This is a look back over the last five years since I began my journey to recovery. What a journey it has been!

I am bubbling with excitement for this December 2021 health update! It’s been quite a close to the year for me, going far beyond my best expectations. Due to the extraordinary improvements I experienced, I’ll go to more length than typical in these updates.

Another month has passed, and there’s more progress in my health recovery story! In this update, I’ll touch on a period of increased symptoms, my physical improvement, and my health purchases on Black Friday. I had two more days with time without any pain, bringing the total up to 25 days in the last 21 months.

I fell far enough behind that I’m lumping September and October into one update for my health recovery story. The delay is for good reasons! I’ve never worked and traveled for business this much. I also studied for and took another coaching certification exam.

Finally, after several more weeks of struggling through the anti-parasite protocol I detailed last month, I had a breakthrough with it and no longer have even a trace of any bugs. This is yet another victory for me in my journey toward my best health!

Here’s my health update for July. There is much to detail. This month was quite mixed—alot of good, followed by not feeling well for an important and obvious reason. I’ll start with the good.

Here is my health update for June. I recovered after the parasite detox reaction and had an excellent month! I’m going to resume the anti-parasite protocol now.

This was the most unusual month for me in the past year. I had a couple of new milestones, little pain, and functioned at a very high level during the first half of the month. But things got interesting in the second half!

April was the best month I’ve had in over 25 years! I had zero symptom flare-ups and have gone six months without any interstitial cystitis or other autoimmune symptoms.

I’m pain-free again today! This makes five days in the last twenty-five years with a period where I didn’t have pain for some part of the day.