Gordon Ryan recently opened up about his ongoing health issues and their impact on his training – during a guest appearance on Joe Rogan’s UFC London Companion podcast:
I’m eating better meals, but training hard is still tough.
Whenever my heart rate gets super high and I start to get tired from a hard session, I still get super nauseous.
The multiple-time ADCC champion explained that the root of his condition lies in his small intestine – an area notoriously difficult for doctors to assess or treat:
Doctors know more about space than we do the stomach.
My issues are in the small intestine, which is the hardest one to treat because they can look at your stomach with an endoscopy and they can look at your large intestine with a colonoscopy, but to figure out what’s going on in your small intestine is completely different.
They just can’t scope it.
Ryan pointed to a string of recurring staph infections and subsequent antibiotic treatments as a major source of damage to his system:
Antibiotics f*cked my life up way more than anything else I’ve ever done to myself by far.
As Ryan continues to navigate recovery, his main focus has shifted to his long-awaited jiu-jitsu academy in North Austin.
We’re right at the tail end of getting that open.
Once we get that open and up and running, then I’ll jump back in if I’m healthy.
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