A short interview-style exchange about challenges professional athletes face maintaining optimal health. Speakers discuss pressure to use alternative treatments (e.g., growth hormones) and the larger, often unexpected difficulty of losing team support and resources after retirement.
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Well, what were the challenges? And maybe they aren't. When you were a pro athlete in maintaining optimal health. I mean, you know that you have to be in optimal health to be your best to perform. But were there any challenges or were there any pressure to take other alternative treatment with growth hormones, any hormones like that at all?
Yeah, I mean, I think there's always that, but I, you know, these are first world problems, right? When you're at that level, a lot of people would say, well, I didn't even get the opportunity to get to that level. And that's true. And blessed to be even in the room with some of these guys that I was in the room with, some of the best in the world at their craft. I think the challenges for me came a lot more when I got done playing and all of a sudden didn't have that support system around me and didn't have the resources that I had when I was playing. And that was the biggest kind of shock.