There's no turning back

August of 2005, I was so desirous to chisel my body. I had this habit of going to the gym almost everyday. This could be the outcome of everyday viewing of brutally-commercialized UFC, he he he..I enjoyed wearing semi-fit white shirts to emphasize my developing carcass.


This is how the chronicle begins. A friend of mine introduced me this miraculous drink, the culprit - the whey protein. I fell in- love easily with this whey because of it's living fruit; my friend who was very skinny before and turned into Dwayne Johnson-body-built.Wow!Not bad for a two-month user. Who couldn't believe him anyway? I rushed to Toby's sports house to purchase a gallon of this wonderful drink. I couldn't decide which brand to purchase,but I ended up with D_s_g_e_ Whey; what a popular brand! I prefer not to mention the brand for legal reasons.The taste was great! I got the chocolate flavor. I enjoyed drinking it before and after workout and to complete the regimen,before I go to bed. My cousins started to notice the result in just 1 week right after I started drinking the curse of my life- the whey protein. The result was unbelievable, i got the body mass, the muscles and the strength i've always wanted. So I continued drinking it for almost two more months.


All soul's day came, I had to go to Cavite together with my family for a vacation.I couldn't find any workout place for my thing. So, I couldn't find time to lift weights until I came back to Manila. That was almost a week of time. Since I had my whey protein with me in Cavite, I continued to consume it at the same time.When i was in my way to Manila, my joints(sacroiliac joints) began to get painful to the point that I could not walk normally.That was very painful,the pain was like crawling through your thigh down to your knees.But the most painful area,my joints.(the joints connecting your legs and your hips).After two days,the pain disappeared.Almost every other month,the pain and slight immobility come.By then, I stopped drinking the W.p.



After a year, I celebrated my birthday with my friends and family. I almost dropped from drunkenness.We had so much fun.The typical beer-flooded-birthday.The following day was a doomsday for me. I coudn't able to walk literally without the help of somebody.I rushed to the hospital for immediate medical aid. I had my x-ray examination but no fractures were found. I submitted myself to undergo to CT scan.The doctor spotted inflammations between my sacroiliac joints.At least they found a clue why I suffer from bone-wrenching pain.But my anathema didn't ended yet. They sent me to a government hospital where the ANA Screening was available.

The result?Presto! I'am now an Ankylosing Spondylitis patient!So what's that? A.S. is a life-time disease that primarily involves the spine and other joints and could lead you to progressive immobility. Reactive arthritis is the cause of severe pain that almost crushed my knees and buttocks area down.From where did I get that disease? I'am an HLA-B27 positive, according to my Ana screening. But Hla -b27 is a normal gene found in only 8% of the total population.And people with HLA-B27 are more susceptible to getting spondylitis. But there's still a good news,Spondylitis cannot be transmitted through anyways,to anyone, expect to my offspring, because it's a hereditary disease. There is approximately a 50% chance that the child of one HLA-B27 positive parent will inherit the gene, but only a small percentage of those will develop A.S.

So what is all about with the whey protein? The doctor says,the whey protein triggered my gene to react to foods that I eat and take it as harmful to my immune system.My immune system is confused all the time. It can't able to recognize which is harmful and which is not.

The Hardest Part : Nowadays, I ONLY eat natural foods. No preservatives,no sugar,no processed-foods;including bread ,cheeses and all dairy products,no smoking,no alcohol. If I cheat to hit these mouth-watering culprits, for sure after a day, I will be needing a wheelchair.

What a disaster. If only I could turn back time, I would not try the honey-coated appeal of the whey protein.Not, even a single drop.
I still live normal as the others, without the beer without the nicotine and without my favorite foods I used to eat. Goodbye to my heydays. I'm about to find out a different bliss, because I know there's no turning back.

S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

i can still remember the electrifying waves that went through my bones and skin when i first listened to the music of incubus, almost 10 years ago.The album?S.C.I.E.N.C.E. I was at the tattoo parlor somewhere in sta.mesa to buy some surgical body jewelries for my body piercing business that time when the tattoo artist,(Mong) played his vintage cassette player with the virgin sound of incubus.I was only 3rd year hs that time.Bald,pierced septum and skinny, that was Bryan, 10 years ago..After i heard their stuff, I found myself paying at the cashier of odyssey at sm centerpoint for a gadget that would burst my senses really wild.
Now,after 10 years of music,they’re still here,but in another genre;Pop-Rock.I can’t blame them for switching to other type of sound,for dancing to the beat of money and masses,for posing under the light of fame.They got what they wanted,Golden butter.Although they crossed beyond the genre they’ve started, they’re still great musicians in many ways.For me, S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is the best of Incubus.