Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2052 - Shane Dorian
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Joe Rogan Experience #2052 - Shane Dorian

Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
The Joe Rogan experience.
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night, all day.
What's up, Joe?
Doing it?
How are you, brother?
I'm doing great, man.
Good to see you.
Thanks.
Good to see you, too.
What's the latest and your greatest?
Lots of stuff, man.
I feel like, I don't know, I feel like normally I don't have that much that's
the latest and
greatest, but yeah, a lot's been happening.
I've been crazy busy, but all good stuff, so nothing to complain about.
What's been happening?
What's crazy busy?
Let's see, in the last three months, four months, been to Mexico twice, El
Salvador once, California
four or five times, Indonesia for a month, Tahiti, France, Mexico.
Damn, son.
Yeah.
World traveler.
A lot.
What have you been doing?
A lot of surfing.
Yeah?
A lot of surfing.
How's your knee?
It's great.
Is it 100%?
It's amazing.
It's not 100%, but I never thought it would be this good again, honestly.
It's really, really good.
I have a slight range of motion that's not as good as the other, which is to be
expected,
but it's great.
I surf with no brace.
I snowboard with no brace.
I go hunting all the time with no brace.
I never really think about it, which is amazing.
For people that don't know, you were in a snowboarding accident.
Yeah.
And you fucking demolished your knee.
Yeah.
I ran right into a tree.
Wrapped my knee around a tree.
Always my fear when I see people skiing and snowboarding.
I quit skiing because of an accident.
I fucked my knee up.
I cracked my shin bone.
I got an insufficiency fracture in the top of my shin bone.
Yeah.
And I was like, that's it.
I'm done.
I'm done with this.
Yeah.
I love snowboarding.
I'm not giving it up.
So I'm, uh, but yeah, like to answer your, to answer your question, I'm, I'm
really happy
with the way my knee healed up.
So I, yeah, it was a shitty experience of that whole process.
How long did it take you to fully heal?
Probably 18 months.
Yeah.
But I was really, really, um, I, you know, I really followed the pro the, I, I
followed
all the physical therapy and all the protocol.
And I, I, uh, you know, I did every single thing I could to, to help it out.
Like you, like you rang me and said, let's do the, let's get some stem cells in
your knee.
So like I came twice here, um, guys at ways to well helped me out with that.
And I had great results from that.
I actually felt the, like the difference, which is amazing, but it healed great.
So you were saying that was the turning point, like the ways to well, like that
you were,
that this is what, one of the things that really pushed you over the edge, what
really
felt like it was healing.
Yeah.
I mean, I went to a great surgeon and he does these things all the time with,
you know, great
success.
And I have a lot of friends who've had that exact same surgery from him.
So I was really confident.
What was the extent of the injury?
I got full repairs of my ACL and my MCL.
They both basically blew off.
Yeah.
So they, so they took my patellar tendon and split it in thirds and then built
new ligaments
out of that.
So the MCL and the ACL out of patellar tendon?
Yeah.
How much does that compromise the patellar tendon?
It doesn't really.
Cause I had a patellar tendon graft on my left knee and it took forever to heal
where on my
right knee, I had a cadaver, which only took like six months.
Yeah.
I think, I think using a cadaver, you, you heal much faster.
Yeah.
But yeah, the, the, why did they decide to do that with you?
Just because like that specific injury that I had, like I, like I spoke to my
surgeon, really
good guy named, uh, um, Warren Kramer out of California.
Um, and he said, look, we have a couple of different options here.
You can choose.
And he just kind of ran me through and he said, if it was my knee, I would use
a patellar
tendon.
He goes, it'll take longer to heal, but you'll be rock solid.
And like the way he explained is, is the patellar tendon is pretty wide and
really, really strong.
So even though you're taking a third from one side and a third from the other
side, the,
it doesn't really compromise the integrity of the actual tendon.
And it's weird the way your body is able to turn that tendon into ligaments.
Isn't that strange?
It is.
So they take a tendon and then they make ligaments that, well, they, like they,
like they put
it in place, um, you know, where, where you used to have these ligaments and it,
your body
accepts it over time as a ligament.
Yeah.
Well, with the cadaver thing, one of the weird things is that your body uses it
as a scaffolding
and then re-proliferates it with its own tissue.
So it's not like you have this cadaver tendon inside of you.
Gotcha.
Cause I have an Achilles tendon.
That's what it started out with.
That was, that's what replaced my ACL and my right knee.
Oh, wow.
There's some dead dude that took his Achilles tendon.
Cause your Achilles is 150% stronger.
Apparently once they do that, then the, an original ACL and then they just
screw that sucker
in place.
And dude, I was good to go quick.
I went to a party without a brace five days later after surgery.
I was out.
I was, I was in bad shape for a long time.
Yeah.
I was with my left knee.
Yeah.
My left knee was in agony for a long time because they have to saw the fucking
piece out
of the bone and the piece out of the bone of your shin and screw the both of
them
in place.
Yeah.
Ugh.
I couldn't go on my knees.
I couldn't do anything where if I had to kneel down, I couldn't do anything for
like a
year.
The pain from waking up after surgery was so brutal.
I had no idea how bad it was going to be.
It sucked.
It's intense.
Like really bad.
Yeah.
It was, for me, it was one of the only times I ever took painkillers and the,
the painkillers
made me feel so stupid.
It was, I, whatever it was, I can't remember if it was Percocets or Vicodin.
Can't remember.
But I remember I sold it to some dude at the pool hall.
I love that.
Yeah.
Some dude is like, I'll take them.
All right.
I'll sell it to you.
Yeah.
Some crazy junkie named Jeff.
Jeff the junkie.
Jeff the junkie.
Yeah.
I just threw painkillers in the trash this morning at my hotel.
Nice.
And, um, I remember thinking, I just looked down as I was throwing them in the
trash and
thinking, man, there's probably people outside right now that would like do
something terrible
for those painkillers.
I hate painkillers.
Yeah.
I feel like you're either, you're like in one group or the other where like
your body really
loves painkillers, your brain, I guess, really loves painkillers or really
doesn't.
I'm definitely hate painkillers.
Yeah.
I didn't take anything from my right knee.
I didn't take a goddamn thing.
After the surgery, I was like, I'll just deal with pain.
I remember what it was like taking them from my left.
Yeah.
I was like, fuck off.
Yeah.
It doesn't jive with me.
It just makes me, again, I hear opiates are amazing.
I hear people that take like Oxycontin, they said it's amazing.
Like, oh my God, it's so wonderful.
Yeah.
Like, um, I had Peter Berg on the podcast.
He's the guy that produced that Netflix series, Painkiller.
I listened to that one, it was awesome.
He's amazing.
Peter's amazing.
Yeah.
But that Painkiller show is like, it's so eyeopening.
But he was saying that he took Oxycontin once recreationally and he was like,
oh my God, this
is so good.
I can never do this again.
Like, it's just like, it just makes you feel so wonderful.
That, well, it's, they say it's, they, you feel like you're slowly falling into
like a
jar of honey, like a warm jar of honey.
That's a, that's a good way to describe it.
But I don't feel like that.
No.
When I'm on pain, when I have to take a Painkiller, I feel loopy and it feels
nauseous.
I feel, ugh, it was gross.
Well, that's good.
Yeah.
Very grateful for that.
Why did you, you needed them after stem cells?
Is that what you needed them for?
Yeah.
So I just had stem cell treatment in Mexico.
So you went to the CPI, the Cellular Performance Institute in Mexico, and you
just got hammered
with them, right?
Yeah, I was there for a week and it was intense.
It was great.
So yeah, so my, my, my treatment was, was pretty over the top, not over the top,
but for me
it was a lot.
I got both shoulders done, both knees, um, my right elbow, my lumbar spine and
my cervical
spine.
And they, you know, I did the cervical spine and the, and the lumbar.
And when they do your spine, they put you out.
So they put you under anesthesia and then they do the rest of my body at that
same time.
And then because there were so many stem cells in my back, um, like most of the
time people
wake up from that and they're really sore and a lot of pain.
Um, and so they gave me some, some, some pain medication, which I sort of
needed right when
I woke up.
But like by the next morning I was just on like the Tylenol trip.
So like things mellowed out really quick for me.
So that was two weeks ago, you said?
Yeah, it was like 10 days ago now.
10 days ago.
Yeah.
Do you feel any difference?
Yes.
Um, so I'm not supposed to, to feel any different for like the first month.
Like, you know, you know, like these, these sort of stem cells are a little bit
different.
That's my understanding at least.
So they're, they're called a, a hypoxic stem cell and they're from cord blood.
So they're, so they're from an umbilical cord.
Um, and I got 180 million stem cells injected.
And then I got a hundred million stem cells in an IV.
And, um, and so those kind of, those kind of stem cells are, they're called hypoxic,
which
is, I think it means that they do really, really well under very low oxygen
environments.
So they're able to live in my body for up to 12 months live.
I don't know if that's the right word, but there's, they stay active and
growing in your
body for 12 months.
So, um, so now it's just a matter of me following the protocol, which is not
that fun.
And so the, the protocol involves essentially a lot of rest, right?
You're, you're not supposed to train like what, what is the protocol?
Yeah.
So the protocol with these specific stem cells, like, because they, you know,
sort of
live so long in your body.
Um, the first two weeks is basically nothing.
It's like maybe 15 minutes of like walking per day.
And then after that you work with a physical therapist and you have very
specific physical
therapy.
So it's like, um, a lot of like stabilization stuff.
Like I did my spine.
So I was talking to, um, Nikki Hind, who's my, my physical therapist.
And so, so she's creating like a physical therapy, um, schedule and program for
me based
around my spine.
And she told me that she's, she's worked with some people who have had, um,
intense stem
cell therapies.
And it's like a pretty crazy opportunity to, to, to kind of, um, you have like
a second
chance, like at this age with my spine to like really change it the way, the
way it
is.
Um, so I'm pretty excited about that.
I have some like degeneration and some, some, some bulging discs in my lower,
lower back.
And then I have some, my upper, upper back, my cervical spine is pretty fucked
up from all
the surfing wipeouts I've had.
Whoa.
So surfing wipeouts, like when you hit the ground and the water comes.
Yeah.
Like falling off a 60 foot wave and hitting the surface of the water, that
impact with
the water, like moving at, you know, like 30 miles an hour and you go in the
other direction
that, yeah.
So my neck is jacked up from a lot of that.
And do they go right into the actual disc itself?
So they go in, I know in my, I don't want to mess this up.
Right.
But, um, I try to ask all the right questions and memorize everything.
But, uh, yeah, um, I know in my cervical spine, they mostly did my facets, but
in my lower
back, I think they went straight in the discs.
So they did my SI joint and then like my C5, C4s.
That's, I don't know if that sounds correct, but, um, so yeah, they did the
discs.
Wow.
So is it supposed to make the discs expand?
Yeah.
And make it larger.
And so there's more cushion between the s