Andy Hnilo survived a severe 2011 car accident that broke his jaw, seven ribs, and collapsed his lung. While recovering at Cedars-Sinai, he created a topical clay mask from natural ingredients that he credits with healing his injuries. Friends loved it so much they asked to buy it, but Andy made it only to heal himself, never to sell.
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Just crossing the street, March 20th, 2011, got hit by a westbound heading vehicle, got hit in the eastbound lane and run over by another eastbound heading vehicle. I was just shuttled off to Cedars-Sinai Hospital where I woke up in an ICU bed. Compound fracture of my jaw, 7 broken ribs, and a collapsed lung. Unrecognizable on a morphine drip, I quickly found out the severity of what I just went through, but I was alive. I just kind of put together this plan. I went around town to Dragon Herbs trying to figure out how to build my system back internally, basically putting together this morning tonic that I did to reboot reboot my system and rebuild and revitalize. Basically a superfood meal internally that I began to pick apart to use in the clay mask topically. The thing that got me back was that clay mask. A friend of mine, Christine, I picked her up from the airport shortly after the accident. She had seen me before. She did a legitimate double take and asked what I was doing. She asked what was in it. She's like, I wanna try it. Went over to her house, mixed up the mask for her and her friends and they loved it. It was just this clay mask that really did help get me back to my feet and to a recognizable form. And I just loved it. I'd never had an intention To sell it.
