Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson had a digestive difficulty that he couldn’t kick — and no solutions in sight.
Johnson, one among WWE and Hollywood’s greatest stars, opened up about his well being journey throughout a current dialog with the person who noticed him by way of to the opposite aspect in Dr. Mark Hyman.
The 53-year-old, after years of coping with the intestine difficulty, had a dialog with former agent and longtime enterprise companion Ari Emanuel about it on the finish of 2023.
“He’s like, ‘What’s going on?’ I said, ‘I’ve seen doctors and I can’t quite nail it. I can’t quite fix it. It’s in my digestion,” Johnson mentioned throughout “The Mark Hyman Show.” “I feel great — and that’s the odd thing — but I just can’t crack it.’”
Emanuel, the CEO of Endeavor and WWE’s father or mother firm, TKO, talked about seeing Hyman, who practices practical medication.
The 2 finally linked for a digital go to.
Johnson admitted he knew nothing about practical medication, which, in response to the Institute for Purposeful Drugs, supplies a framework to systematically determine and handle the underlying processes and dysfunctions which might be inflicting imbalance and illness in every particular person.
“You said, very succinctly, ‘I’m not going to treat your symptoms. I’m going to go deeper than that and treat the root cause of what’s going on,’” Johnson mentioned. “And I said, ‘I love that.’”
The remedy started in early 2024, with Johnson set to start his “Final Boss” run to WrestleMania 40 with WWE. Attending to what was holding Johnson again took some heavy digging, Hyman famous. They did blood panels and a stool take a look at, amongst different issues, to get to the supply of the issue.
Johnson was in for a grueling yr with WWE commitments, the discharge of “Red One” and “Moana 2,” and filming for his upcoming film “The Smashing Machine.”
“That was at the beginning of 2024, and I was just getting ready to launch into what would become a nine-month workload for me — nonstop work,” Johnson mentioned. “And I was thinking, ‘Holy s–t, how am I going to get through this with my gut issues? I’m not digesting properly.’”
Fortunately, Hyman was in a position to present Johnson some aid, discovering the problem started after he took a number of rounds of antibiotics, which messed with the micro organism in his intestine. He was lacking Akkermansia, which coats the liner of the gut and protects from irritation and a leaky intestine, Hyman mentioned.
“We basically rehabbed your gut. Gave you probiotics and plant compounds—pomegranate, green tea, cranberry — to help rebuild it,” Hyman mentioned. “And we made you this amazing gut health shake with 10-plus ingredients personalized for you.”
Johnson hasn’t wrestled in WWE since, however was the catalyst for John Cena’s heel flip earlier this yr.
