hey so this is my first time on camera in about 10 months and I want to walk you through and
tell you the story about some of the things that transpired so around November of 2021 I started
having a lot of problems breathing there were a few times where I would wake up at night in fact I
remember one time in December I sent out a message I meant to send it out to my wife on WhatsApp but
I actually sent it out to the group that um you know I was woken up again at like three o'clock
in the morning and I couldn't breathe and for some reason there was just this constant congestion in
the left side of my nostril and it was causing a lot of problems because what would happen is
even though I wouldn't have any problems falling asleep I would only be able to sleep for about
three hours and then my brain would just like jolt me awake at about one or two o'clock in
the morning and I just couldn't breathe out of this side of my face and additionally I had a
lot of sinus pressure over here and sometimes I would have to wait like three or four hours for
it to open up and oftentimes I would only be able to sleep like three hours a day and during the day
it would cause just a lot of headaches and just I wouldn't be able to think clearly I wouldn't
be able to communicate clearly and basically it kind of like wrecked the entire 2020 too then I
guess the cherry on top was in February of 2022 I got covid and even though it wasn't that bad
for me it only lasted about three days covid it increases your systemic inflammation so I think
that when you combine what happened to me which I didn't know at the time but now I'm pretty sure I
know what happened and then you combine that with the systemic inflammation from covid it
kind of like made it so that every single day was a struggle we finally moved to a house in 2020 and
the air quality in the home was extremely bad in fact it was so bad that it led to mold inside the
house and really bad air quality so basically like the air was and the mold was attacking my
body and attacking my immune system and leading to really high systemic inflammation like my
high sensitivity C-reactive protein was high and other inflammation markers Etc and was basically
destroying my entire health I just had no idea what was going on I went to see around eight
doctors and none of them knew what was going on I went to about eight ents and allergists I had
numerous allergy tests I had endoscopes put down my nose by the ents and nobody knew what
was going on some of the medications that they prescribed me were as elastin and Flonase and
that actually did help bring down the inflammation and that allowed me to sleep the problem is that
the Flonase is a corticosteroid and I know that I didn't want to take that long term because it
has some side effects so I was looking for like a natural solution the problem was with every
doctor that I went to I started getting more and more frustrated because you go to doctors
and then you think that they're going to be able to diagnose you and to fix the issue but for me
nobody knew what was wrong so I was spending hours researching and taking like two thousand dollars
worth of supplements I was also trying to fix this myself by buying a ton of supplements online some
of the things did help like quercetin and zinc and things that would reduce the histamine levels but
I was really looking for a long-term solution the thing that actually allowed me to recognize that
the problem was that Heir was one of the ents recommended that I get a sleep test and a sleep
study so I went to a sleep study and they put like all these electrodes on my head and I couldn't
sleep at all because I was so uncomfortable with the electrodes however what I realized was I could
breathe so well at the sleep study space and what that immediately told me was that the issue wasn't
necessarily with my sleeping or anything like that it was with the air that I was breathing and that
the air was reacting with my body to cause the issue with my left nostril so we had to move and
we moved in late September and since that time I would say I was about like 40 percent I was really
really bad so basically I was allocating all my time towards trading and helping out my followers
and the people that are on the trade alerts and the people that purchased the education course
and I wasn't creating content in fact what I did I had my editor make some shorts some YouTube shorts
from some of my past videos and then that way I can post them that way it would show the YouTube
algorithm that my channel wasn't dead and actually I'm still posting those YouTube shorts now
but it's been about three months since I moved out of that house and right now I feel about 85
percent a few other things that I did I started taking THC because in Florida you can get a card
and you can buy it from a dispensary so I bought it and then I took something called the RSO Rick
Simpson Oil and that helped me tremendously it allowed me to sleep for longer periods of
time the problem with that was I noticed that it started to negatively impact my short-term memory
so I had to stop that because I definitely need my brain to be in Tip-Top shape I need to be
able to have my short-term memory and to speak clearly so a few things that I did in order to
counteract the short-term memory deficits was I took acetyl-l-carnitine creatine bacopa methylene
blue paracetum Etc and also I think I took some CDP choline and probably some other things as well
but basically after taking that stuff for about a week I was pretty much back to 100 where I was
able to counteract the negative side effects of that so A few things that I want to share mold is
no joke and a few of the things that I did for it included infrared sauna with binders taking sweet
wormwood oregano oil olive leaf extract Etc but there are many people who would be exposed to mold
and they are unable to recover not only in three months but sometimes it takes them three years
and YouTube is such an amazing place I have so much gratitude for the small following that I have
a few people who really really helped me Ernie from zero DTE he's just an amazing guy he made
recommendations and he would proactively check up on me and like you know every two or three months
he would send me an email and asked me how I was doing and I'm never going to forget that kindness
that he showed me it really meant a lot because there were some days where it was just such a
dark place I remember I would send my wife at like three four o'clock in the morning messages about
how I just no longer wanted to go on because after going to like you know eight doctors and none of
them knowing what's wrong with you none of them being able to help you and then just being in that
house and every single day not being able to sleep I started developing significant anxiety about
sleeping as well because I knew that that night's sleep would be something that I would struggle
with and that I would be woken up at one or two o'clock in the morning so I started getting like
a lot of anxiety and and my wife was amazing a few other people who really helped me there's this guy
who goes by the name of Parth he's in Canada and he's a pharmacist he helped me a lot there is also
an individual Lee Goodman who's a realtor in Ohio even though I think he's moving to the Naples area
he is extremely knowledgeable about everything when it comes to the nose from empty nose syndrome
to allergies and he's he's incredible he helped me a lot and Russell he reviews Traders and for
some reason he doesn't like me he thinks that I'm directly responsible for getting Raging
Bull shut down and I disagree with him I don't believe that I am directly responsible for that
but he actually really helped me as well I spoke with his wife and I think I spoke to her for about
45 or 50 minutes and Russell was very nice like we spoke on email and he allowed me to speak with his
wife and she was so kind and so helpful so yeah I mean that's basically my story where do I where do
I go from here well this is the first video that I made in like 10 months so I'm probably a little
bit Rusty I do intend on making additional content the only issue is that during the time when I was
sick I fell so far behind on everything I went from having a clean inbox to having 600 emails
in my inbox and I'm just so far behind that it's probably going to take me a few months
to catch back up and that's assuming that I have no relapses I mean there's no guarantee that I'm
going to continue to stay healthy like maybe I'll have a relapse or two maybe my sleep will be poor
and my body is still pretty weak because I went like 10 months without being able to sleep well
so I'm definitely going to need more than three months to repair my body and to take care of
myself but assuming that everything continues going in the right direction I assume they're
probably around like April of 2023 maybe May or June I'll be back to around 100 percent we'll see
but this is the first step in the right direction I'm creating content again and I'll post this and
also continue posting the shorts now look I know that the shorts are a little bit fast but let me
just quickly explain to you why I'm posting these shorts the shorts are kind of like mashups of my
old content and the only reason for them is just to feed the YouTube algorithm so that YouTube
knows that my channel isn't dead and it's really there as a placeholder just to Simply buy me some
extra time because right now I'm focusing on trading I'm focused on providing excellent
service to my followers and at the same time I'm trying to get healthy and I want to make sure that
I have enough content so that it feeds the YouTube algorithm so I think I have about 10 more shorts
and that should probably last me until about like February or March and then I'll create like an
occasional video and then I assume that around like April or May I'll get back towards creating
consistent content so that's about it let me know if you have any questions I'm sure I left a lot of
stuff out you can leave a comment below and then I'll be sure to answer it I definitely appreciate
your attention for those of you who reached out to me and who will leave nice comments I really can't
tell you how much I I appreciate that because I was in a really really dark place because imagine
like going to so many doctors and practically begging them for help and nobody knows what's
wrong with you it's just such a horrible feeling and then I'm putting my wife through all of this
stress and Trauma and it's just I just would feel so guilty so you know thankfully it seems like
that's behind me and I definitely appreciate you and I appreciate everyone else and like I said I
appreciate you know those four or five people who would proactively reach out to me and and they
help me so um that's about it that's the update and I look forward to catching up with you soon