Going through a particularly challenging intersection in San Francisco, my friend panicced and locked up his breaks on a yellow light. So I locked up my breaks as well.......I'm sure you are getting the picture here and realizing that a BMW M3, stops a LOT faster than a 1985 Plymoth. So I slammed into his rear quarterpanel at about 15 miles per hour, and a split second later, I was rear ended by a gentlemen going 50mph.............
I suffered whiplash and a bulging disk in my upper spine right below the base of my neck.
I saw a Doctor, and he couldn't help me. My pain level was exruciating and I could not turn my neck to either side, during the following two weeks. I had to sleep on my back and position pillows just perfectly.
I saw a Chiropractor....and that helped a little. I could move my neck to some degree, and the pain subsided some. However I was told that I had something that was called "Degenerative Disc Disease" in my upper spine, and that as I got older, the pain would get worse and worse, and that this was a permanent condition.
As a result of a constant level of pain every single day of my life for 9 years straight, I had become addicted to Vicadin, Tylenol, Advil.....you name it. I took it just for relief. I won't lie and tell you that I was in excruciating pain during this time.........but try to imagine waking up......and having a pain level of 5 every....single....day....for 9 years straight.
Back to April 2007
It was April 12th, just after my 29th birthday, and two months after I had begun drinking Via Viente, when I woke up one morning without pain. I thought to myself...."maybe this is a fluke."
But the next day was pain free....and medication free.
....and the next.....and the next.
And to this day, I am 100% pain free. I have no inflammation whatsoever in my neck and I feel absolutely amazing. I was able to get back in the gym full time (a passion of mine), and every single day I am thankful for this amazing product and the anti-inflammatory products that it has due to it's high quality, high content anti-oxidants.
Both Ryan and Ronnie are a part of my Via Viente team, and it is an honor working with these gentlemen. If you have any questions, please contact them first, and if there is something they cannot answer, I will find the answer for them.
Via Viente has been an absolute blessing for me, and I will leave you with a picture that I took just over 2 months ago in the gym. It is NOT the picture of a depressed, addicted to painkillers, person resorting to live an ever-degrading quality of life.
But of a healthy, vibrant, excited-about-life young man with a completely new "pain free" outlook on life.
God Bless
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