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Cleanse update

It has been just over a month since my last blog. I started my 28-day cleanse last week. I am currently on Day 11. The first week of the cleanse is probably the hardest. It requires you to get off coffee for an entire week! I can drink green tea in exchange for coffee, but talk about feeling sluggish and tired for 3 days.

I am struggling with motivation this go around in my program. I am not able to work out yet, and I won’t be able to for another month. If you thought I was going crazy before, yeah don’t ask me about it now! I have had more then my fair share of cheat days, and really that’s completely on me. Some of the requirements are that you get off bread, grains, sugary foods, and no vegetable oils (soybean, canola, etc.). My program started a bit late due to the late arrival of supplements that I need to take on the program; there was a back order on Amazon.

One of the hardest things to deal with as an athlete and a patient that suffers from a rare disease is to stop and listen to your body. As athletes, injuries are common and happen all the time, but it is when you need to stop and let your body recover that is the hardest. This can also be extremely frustrating as a person with hypoparathyroidism; we deal with things that the average person does not understand.

My name is Josh Becker, I was diagnosed with bi-lateral hearing loss when I was 18 months old, and I received my first hearing aid when I was 2 years old. In 1988 at the age of 8, I was also diagnosed with idiopathic hypoparathyroidism. Even though my endorcrinologist had me on a regimen of diurectics to protect my kidneys, in the early 2000s, it was recommended that I see a urologist. It was then determined that I had nephrocalcinosis and kidney stones. I do not pass any of the kidney stones so they just sit in my kidneys making themselves at home. About two years ago, I went to Washington, DC, and visited the NIH. I received gene testing on a special case study that I was invited to participate in. That is when they determined I have a rare disease known as HDR Syndrome (hypoparathyroidism, deafness, and renal disease syndrome).