Andy Hnilo in Los Angeles with News Anchor Elsa Ramon

Biggest task. Of course, after that, you had a long road ahead of you. What did you do to rehab and to get where you are today?

So my jaw was wired shut. So to get nutrition, proper nutrition, I became really passionate about superfoods, adaptogenic herbs, reducing inflammation and really building my blood in, like the Chinese philosophy of just revitalizing the system from the inside out. And so with my jaw wired shut, I had very little room back there, but I had a little space where I could put a straw in the back. And I'd make these really nutrient dense smoothies with, like, bison liver, deer placenta, egg yolks, I mean, you name it. But I also, from the outside, I had very bad scarring, a lot of abrasions.